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Six Degrees
Lasted until 2001 and allowed users to list friends and family. -
AOL Instant Messenger (AIM)
Allowed users to instantly message friends through the internet. -
MySpace Creation
MySpace was created by Tom Anderson, Chris DeWolfe, and Jon Hart. When members signed up they instantly became friends with Tom. -
ConnectU sues Facebook
ConnectU blamed that the Facebook founder took their idea. -
The Creation of Facebook
Mark Zuckerberg launched Facebook with the original intentions of connecting Harvard Students. -
The Start of YouTube
Video sharing website began. -
First Tweet
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Doe Vs MySpace Inc
Summer of 2005 "Doe" was 13 and created an account claiming to be a 18. She then met with a 19 year old male she connected with on the network. Her mother found out and reported it leading to the law suit, -
Release of Instagram
Photo sharing network was released as only an app originally to share and like images. -
Facebook purchases Instagram
Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger sold their photo filtering app to Facebook for a mix of money and Facebook stock -
Dehen sues Twitter
People harassed Tiffany Dehen was a law student who sues her school and twitter for $100 Million after not shutting down the parody accounts people made of her. -
Facebook Hits over 2 Billion Active Users
Facebook is the biggest social network with more than 2 Billion active users. This is greater than the population of China.
