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First known social media communication: Geocities
Geocities is a web hosting service, originally was in the U.S but now available only in Japan. It was founded in November 1994 by David Bohnett and John Rezner. In January 1999 GeoCities was acquired by Yahoo! www.wikipedia.com -
Black Planet
Founded by Omar Wasow, BlackPlanet became the most popular website for African Americans. People were allowed to build pages with photos, graphics, and info about themselves. More importantly, it let people connect with out like-minded people. www.complex.com -
LinkedIn
The world largest professional networking platform with over 400,000 million members. Through LinkedIn you can build your professional identity online and stay in touch with colleagues and classmates, discover professional opportunities, business deals, and new ventures, and et the lasted news on how to be great at what you do. www,linkedin.com -
MySpace
Founded by Tom Anderson and Chris DeWolfe, Myspace was essentially a place to come and deck out your page, display who your favorite friends were, connect with friends and family and share lots of music. -
Facebook
Facebook is a social networking site that makes it easy for you to connect and share with your family and friends online. Originally designed for college students, Facebook was created in 2004 by Mark Zuckerberg while he was enrolled at Harvard University. www.gcflearnfree.com -
YouTube
YouTube was founded by Chad Hurley, Steve Chen, and Jawed Karim former PayPal employees. YouTube is a free video sharing website that makes it easy to watch online videos. You can create and upload your own videos to share with others. -
Twitter
Twitter is a micro-blogging social media platform. The definition of twitter is “a short burst of inconsequential information” and “a series of chirps from birds”. Why 140 characters only? The limit was set because 160 characters was the SMS limit and they wanted to leave room for the username. www,digitaltrends.com -
Instagram
Kevin Systrom is the CEO and co-founder of Instagram, a community of more than 500 million who capture and share the world's moments on the service. Mike Krieger is the CTO and co-founder of Instagram, a global community that shares more than 95 million photos every day. Instagram.com -
Pinterest
Founded by: Ben Silbermann, Evan Sharp and Paul Sciarra, Pinterest is a social network that allows users to visually share, and discover new interests by posting or 'pinning' images or videos to their own or others' boards and browsing what other users have pinned. www,infront.com -
Snap Chat
Created by Evan Spiegel, Bobby Murphy, and Reggie Brown. You can take a photo or a video then add a caption or doodle or put a cool/goofy graphic over top and send it to a friend. Snapchat is also a fun messaging app. You can add it to your "story", a 24-hour collection of your photos and videos, which you broadcast to the world or just your followers. www,pocket-lint.com -
Vine
Founded by Rus Yusupov, Dom Hofmann, and Colin Kroll, Vine is to short videos what Instagram is to photos. You shoot, edit and share clips, all through the mobile app. www.wired.co -
Periscope
Founded and developed by Kayvon Beykpour and Joe Bernstein. Periscope allows you to “go live” on your mobile device anytime and anywhere. The app allows you to become your own “on the go” broadcasting station, streaming video and audio to any viewers who join your broadcast. Periscope was acquired by Twitter. www.smallbiztrends.com