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Bulletin Board System
used for sharing and exchanging messages as well as sharing files.
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Classmates.com
It was originally created to find classmates you had back in kindergarten, primary school, high school, college. You can now use the site to find past workplace colleagues (This site is still active.) -Kristopher Vinson -
Bolt
Bolt was a social networking and video website active from 1996 to 2007 before reopening in April 2008. -Kristopher Vinson -
SixDegrees.com
social media site that allowed users to create their own profile page, send messages, etc.
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Open Diary
Open Diary is an online diary community, an early example of social networking software. It was founded on October 20, 1998. Open Diary went offline on February 7, 2014, but was re-launched on January 26, 2018.
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Ryze Launches
Ryze is launched in october of 2001 by creator Adrian Scott. Ryze was used as a social networking platform for business professionals. Ryze was believed to be inspiration for Freindster. -Skylar Gregel -
LinkedIn
LinkedIn was launched as a social networking platform intended for people to easyily hunt for jobs. The rise of popularity on LinkedIn is seen as a threat to convential job searching, and is still very popular today. -Skylar Gregel -
MySpace
MySpace was a platform that became very popular amongst bands for allowing the user to customize profiles and was instrumental in the creation of Artic Monkeys. MySpace became the world’s number one website by 2006, but ended in 2015. -Skylar Gregel -
Facebook Launches
Facebook was originally created for Harvard students exclusively. THe platform has 2.50 billion active monthly users. Facebooks success helped to make creator Mark Zuckerberg become the 8th richest person in the world. -Skylar Gregel -
Bebo
Bebo was launched in 2005 and by 2008 it was so popular the site was considered to be a competitor for Facebook as it had over 34 million users. The popularity of Bebo was short lived as it was sold in 2010 for less than $10 million after if was unable to keep up with the fast growth of Facebook. -
Instagram Launches
Social media site that was created to compete with Facebook.
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Snapchat Released
New kind of social media which was used to easily share photos and videos.
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Facebook Messenger Released
Added direct messaging to Facebook, allowing it to continue to rapidly grow in users. -Caleb Murawski -
Snapchat Launches Stories
Snapchat was the first company to have stories where people could make a post which would only last 24 hours. -Caleb Murawski -
Facebook Live Launches
This allows people to live stream from Facebook which broadened the live streaming industry to anyone. --Caleb Murawski -
Snapchat Releases Snapstreaks
Snapstreaks allowed people to track how many days in a row they were talking with other people which drove snapchat to be a part of people’s daily lives a lot more. -Caleb Murawski -
Tiktok Launches Internationally
Tiktok was the predecessor to Vine which allowed people to easily share short videos. -Caleb Murawski -
Vine Shut down
Vine shut down its app which allowed Tiktok to be so successful. -Caleb Murawski -
Snapchat Redesign
Snapchat redesign caused the app to lose millions of users -Mona Abdeldaim -
Online Shopping
Online shopping overtakes a major part of retail for the first time ever - Amazon has been a major enabler of the growth in online shopping. -Mona Abdeldaim -
BeReal
BeReal came out in 2020 but rose in popularity in 2022. It is a photo-sharing app that prompts users to post one unfiltered, unedited photo per day to a select group of friends.
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Clubhouse begins beta testing private communities called ‘Houses’ to foster curated interactions
Clubhouse, the social audio app that rose in popularity amid the pandemic, is looking to shake up its platform with the launch of private communities called “Houses.” The company’s new offering allows any person or group to create their own curated “House” within Clubhouse. -Mona Abdeldaim