The Internet, Web, and Social Media

  • Instagram

    Instagram now has 200 million active users.
  • Year of the Selfie

  • Snapchat

    Snapchat reaches 100 million active users--mostly millennials
  • GIFS

    GIFS begin on Facebook
  • Friendster

    Friendster shuts down
  • Snapchat

    Snapchat enables filters
  • Instagram

    Instagram now has over 500 million active users
  • Facebook Live

  • Instagram Stories

    Stories on Instagram are launched
  • Facebook

    Facebook adds the additional reactions such as heart, laughing emoji, sad face, and angry face
  • TIK TOK

    TIK TOK got started
  • Twitter

    Twitter doubles the character limit
  • Facebook

    Facebook launched the Stories bar to the News Feed
  • Facebook

    We find out that Cambridge Analytica harvested user data without their consent and used data for political purposes. Facebook stock goes down a ton.
  • Mark Zuckerberg

    Mark Zuckerberg testifies before Congress
  • IGTV App

    Instagram launches the IGTV App
  • Facebook

    Facebook is still the biggest and most successful with 2.38 billion monthly active users