Social Media — Fact vs. Fiction

One of the very first social media sites was Six Degrees which was created in 1997 and enabled users to upload a profile and make friends with other users. It wasn’t until 1999 that the first blogging sites appeared and are still popular today.

The 20th-century technology started, and it grew rapidly with the first supercomputers that were created in the 1940s, and it allowed both scientists and engineers began to create and develop networks between computers, which is now what we know as the birth of the internet.

One of the very first internets was CompuServe, and it was developed in the 1960s, and small forms of email were also developed during this time. It was not until the 1970s that networking technology had improved and by 1979 it allowed users to communicate through a virtual newsletter.

By the 1980s home computers were starting to become the norm, and social media was becoming more sophisticated. The IRCs or first Internet chats were first used in 1988 and well into the 1990s.

Once the invention of blogging was invented the social media craze began to explode, and sites like MySpace and Linkedin gained prominence in the early 2000s, and sites like Photobucket and Flickr facilitated in 2005 and it created a brand-new way of sharing, across the country and the world.

Facebook and Twitter became available to users in 2006 throughout the world, and they are still popular today. Sites like Tumblr, Spotify, Foursquare and Pinterest began popping up…