The History of Social Media Networking

Social Media

Period: 1995 to 2013

Six Degrees

1997

First social networking site.It enabled users to upload a profile and make friends with other users.

LinkedIn

May 5, 2003

LinkedIn launches a business- and employment-oriented social networking service that operates via websites and mobile apps

Myspace

Aug 1, 2003

Myspace launches, offering an interactive, user-submitted network of friends, personal profiles, blogs, groups, photos, music, and videos.

Facebook

Feb 4, 2004

Facebook website is launched by Mark Zuckerberg and along with fellow students. It is a social networking website and service where users can post comments, share photographs and links to news or other interesting content on the Web, play games, chat live, and even stream live video.

Flickr

Feb 10, 2004

Flickr becomes a popular photo-sharing and hosting service with advanced and powerful features. It supports an active and engaged community where people share and explore each other's photos

YouTube

Feb 14, 2005

Website designed to share videos

Reddit

Jun 23, 2005

Reddit is created. It is a social news aggregation, web content rating, and discussion website. Anyone can submit a link of question and people can reply.

Twitter

Mar 21, 2006

The app is released. It is an online news and social networking service where users post and interact with messages, "tweets", restricted to 140 characters.

Tumblr

Feb 10, 2007

Tumblr is a microblogging and social networking

Instagram

Oct 6, 2010

An app made for sharing photos and videos from a smartphone.

Snapchat

2011

Snapchat is a mobile app that allows users to send and receive "self-destructing" photos and videos.