Social Media History

  • Instagram Skyrockets

    Instagram Skyrockets
    Instagram hits 400 million users. It's continued growth now includes ads, IGTV, company marketing, and even online shopping.
  • Filters

    Filters
    Filters became increasingly popular with a wide variety of option. From turning your face into a puppy, or swapping faces with someone else these filters became a phenomenon.
  • Instagram Stories

    Instagram Stories
    Piggy-backing off the product Snapchat launched, Instagram created 24-hour stories for everyone to view and watch.
  • Politics in Social Media

    Politics in Social Media
    With each new election and administration, social media takes a larger role. In 2017, Facebook and Twitter were accused of being connected to the Russian involvement with the election. Since then a major amount of posts and tweets on these sites has been politically charged, and a main source of political information.