Power of social media

• Social media according to merriam-webster

  "Forms of electronic communication (such as websites for social networking and microblogging) through which users create online communities to share information, ideas, personal messages, and other content (such as videos)"
• In less than a generation,.social media has evolved from direct electronic information exchange, to virtual gathering place, to retail platform, to vital 21st century marketing tool
• Begining of internet

  • May 24, 1844
  • With a series of electronic dots and dashes tapped out by hand on a telegraph machine
• ARPANET

  • Advanced Research Projects Agency Network
  • 1969
  • It's emergence is noted as the modern origins of today's internet and social media
• NSFNET

  • 1987
  • National Science Foundation
  • A more robust, nationwide digital network
  • The first true social media platform was launched in 1997
• The launch of social sites

  • 1980s and 90s
  • The internet's growth enable that introduction of online communication services such as CompuServe, America online, and prodigy
• Friendster


  These rudimentary platforms attracted millions of users and enabled email address registration and basic online networking
• Blogger


  Weblogs, or blogs, another early form of digital social communication, began to gain popularity with the 1999 launch of the LiveJournal publishing site
• LinkedIn


  Founded in 2002 as a networking site for career minded professionals. By 2020, it had grown to more than 675 million users worldwide
• myspace


  Launched in 2003. By 2006, it was the most visited website on the planet, spurred by users' ability to share new music directly on their profile pages.
• Facebook


  Became more popular than Myspace
• Google


  Google's attempt to elbow its way into social media landscape, Google+ launched in 2012. A rocky existence came to an end in 2018, after the private information of nearly 500,000 Google+ users was compromised by a data security breach.
• Reddit


  A combination of news aggregation and social commentary site
• X (twitter)


  A microblogging site founded in 2006
• Instagram


  Photo-sharing site. Purchased by facebook in 2012
• Pinterest


  visual "pin board"
• Snapchat


  video-sharing service that introduced the concept of "stories"
• TikTok


  short-form video-sharing site that merged with Musical.ly