Social Media

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  • Wikipedia

    First encyclopedia that anyone can edit

  • LinkedIn

    LinkedIn strives to be known as a business-related social networking site used by professionals from its inception

  • MySpace

    MySpace.com is frantically coded in 10 days to try and mimic the rapid growth of Friendster. Grows to the most popular social networking site in 2006 with 100 million users. LinkedIn and Photobucket also join the game.

  • Facebook

    A social media site that was started at Harvard expanded to other universities

  • Youtube

    Youtube, a video sharing website, goes live

  • Facebook

    Facebook becomes available to high schools and in other countries

  • Twitter

    Twitter; a website for mini-blogging and social networking, begins

  • Google Buys Youtube

  • Facebook

    Facebook adds games

  • Apple IPhone

    Apple releases the Iphone in the United States. IPhone users can access social media sites and apps through their phones

  • Foursquare

    Location based social media network goes live

  • Twitter

    Tweeters are sending 50 million tweets a day

  • Google Wave

    Google wave, a web- based platform designed to merge email and social networking