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Six Degrees
The first social media site that everyone can collectively agree was actually social media was a website called Six Degrees. It was named after the ‘six degrees of separation’ theory and lasted from 1997 to 2001. Six Degrees allowed users to create a profile and then friend other users.Six Degrees inspired the movement into the era of blogging and instant messaging. -
Internet All Over the World
By the year 2000, around 100 million people had access to the internet, and it became second-hand nature for people to be engaged socially online. Back then it was looked at as an odd hobby at best. Still, more and more people began to use chat rooms for making friends, dating and discussing topics that they wanted to talk about. But the huge boom of social media was still to come. -
The First Social Media Surge
Back in the early 2000’s the website MySpace was the popular place to set up a profile and make friends. MySpace was the original social media profile website, leading into their sister social media that is Facebook. -
Facebook & Twitter
In 2004, Mark Zuckerberg launched what would soon become the social media giant that would set the bar for all other social media apps. Facebook is the number one social media website today and it currently has over a billion users.
In late 2004, the popularity of text messaging or SMS inspired Jack Dorsey, Biz Stone, Noah Glass and Evan Williams to create Twitter. Today, Twitter has over 500 million users. -
Social Media Today
Social media today consists of thousands of social media platforms, all serving the same – but slightly different purpose. Of course, some social media platforms are more popular than others, but even the smaller ones get used by a portion of the population because each one caters to a very different type of person.
