Sunday 6 November 2016

The Evolution of Social Media

The Evolution of Social media

Social media started in the 1970's which started with BBS (Bullet board system) this was the first platform which made it possible to log into a site for interaction, then came a site called compuserve in 1980 which was the first chat room site.
Social media then moved onto its golden era of the real movement of innovation in Social media it started in 2001 at the time there was several chat room platforms like ICQ and even one of the first blog platforms Livejournal. There was also a stream of social innovation which started the online encyclopedia Wikipedia and was followed by Friendster, Myspace and then Facebook in 2004 and Twitter in 2006, Facebook and twitter are still the top social media platforms of today.


References:
http://www.adweek.com/socialtimes/the-evolution-of-social-media-infographic/620911

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