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Wikipedia
A free encyclopedia, written by the people who use it. Anyone has the ability to edit content. -
Friendster Launche
A social media site engaging people based on mutual Interests. Credited as giving birth to a new social media movement but eventual lost it's popularity to more mainstream sites. -
LinkedIn
A business focused social networking site with the main purposes to connect people professionally. -
Wordpress
an online open source website creation tool for blogging and website management systems. -
MySpace
An interactive networking site of friends which allows personal profiles, blogs, groups, photos, music and videos. Was one of the largest social networking sites in the world from 2005-2009 -
Facebook
One of the largest Social Media networking sites in the world. From what started as a profile site for Harvard university is now used worldwide to connect people through posts, pictures, videos, messaging. Users a free to virtually do as they wish with a now endless supply of uses. -
YouTube
A video sharing service where users can create their own profile, upload videos, watch, like and comment on other videos. -
Twitter
Considered a miniature blog, tweeting allows quick short updates much like a post of facebook. Although pictures and videos are still enabled, tweets are the main focus of the site. -
WikiLeaks
A multi-national media organisation and associated library. It was established to obtain and disseminate classified documents and data -
Tumblr
Allows for creative expression by creating a webpage of collections. This revolves around images, music, text and also re-blogging from other Tumblr feeds -
The App Store opens
A digital distribution platform for computer software. Most social media is used through Apps on mobile phones. -
WhatsApp
a messenger app for smartphones which uses the internet to send messages, images, audio or video. Similar to text messaging serves however the cost is significantly less as it is internet based -
Instagram
Social networking made for sharing photos and videos from a smartphone. Unlike it's popular counterparts Facebook and Twitter, instagram updates are done with pictures as the main focus -
Pinterest
Users can upload, save, sort and manage high quality images. People use Pinterest to pin images they find for new ideas, inspiration and things they are interested in. -
Snapchat
A mobile messaging application used to share photos, text and videos. The main feature that makes it different to other social media forms is that the message disappears from the recipients phone after a few seconds.
