Social media

Social Media History

  • Internet

    Internet
    -- First time on the internet after getting a 56k dial up connection, I miss the random weird sounds it made while connecting
  • Email Address

    Email Address
    -- Around this time I signed up for my first email address on Hotmail, I still frequently check this email to this date
  • Instant Messaging Service

    Instant Messaging Service
    -- Around this time I got introduced to ICQ, which was one of the first messenger services around, UH-OH!
  • IRC: Internet Relayed Chat

    IRC: Internet Relayed Chat
    -- Started using mIRC, an internet relayed chat program still widely used to this date
  • MSN Messenger

    MSN Messenger
    -- Downloaded and started MSN Messenger which I still use to this day to keep in touch with friends and family and check emails
  • File-sharing

    File-sharing
    -- Downloaded a program called Napster and started downloading and sharing music with other users
  • Bit Torrent

    Bit Torrent
    -- After Napster went down and having gone through many other P2P file-sharing programs such as Kazaa and Limewire, started using open source torrent services to download media files
  • Social Networking

    Social Networking
    -- During this time, created my first social networking profile on MySpace
  • YouTube

    YouTube
    -- First discovered YouTube and have been using it ever since to catch up on all types of media
  • uTorrent

    uTorrent
    -- Started using the closed source bit torrent client uTorrent to share videos, music and any type of files online
  • Facebook

    Facebook
    -- Created a Facebook account and liked it's simplicity and layout so I stopped using MySpace and other social networking sites
  • Microblogging

    Microblogging
    -- Around this time I created a Twitter account but never really got into it all that much
  • Online Blogging

    Online Blogging
    -- Created an online blog for Social Media class @Durham College