4. 192This led to more opportunities for
online communities to be born. In
1992, Tripod opened as a community
online for college students and
young adults. This was a
foreshadowing to what would come
later, Facebook.
6. 1997By 1997, the Web had 1
million websites. Blogging
begins and AOL messenger
lets users chat back and
forth. SixDegrees.com lets
users create profiles and list
friends.
7. 2002In 2002, a social
network called
Friendster grew to 3
million users in 3
months. Also, Aol
had 34 million
members.
8. 02 04In 2004, Facebook was started for students
at Harvard. MySpace also came into the
social networking scene. Digg was founded
as a social news website where people
shared stories found across the internet.
Also, podcasting began.
9. 2006In 2006,MySpace was the most popular social
networking site in the US.Also,Twitter was
launched,which allowed users to send 140
character messages called tweets.Facebook started
allowing anyone over the age of 13 to join the
site.
11. 2012By 2012, more and more people were using
smartphones and tablets to access social networks.
At this time, the top 10 social networks were Facebook,
Blogger, Twitter, WordPress, LinkedIn, Pinterest,
Google+, Tumblr, Myspace and Wiki. Advertisers look
to social βlikesβ to enhance brand
visibility.
12. 2013- presentNow, more and more people are using
social media. It is more often to be seen
using social media than not. By 2013,
there are 1.2 billion Facebook users, 200
million active twitter users, 50 billion
apps downloaded from the Apple App
Store, Instagram had 100 million users
and stored 4 billion pictures. Pinterest
had 48.7 million users and WordPress
had 74 million blogs. Social media is and
continues to be a great way for people
to communicate.
