History of

social media

By megan,hayley,carrissa,rylee,ashley

Twit

ter

Twitter was created in March 2006 by Jack Dorsey, Evan Williams and

Biz stone By July 2006 it was

launched. It gained 500 million users

in 2012 who posted 340

million tweets per day.

Mys

pace

August 2003 the first version of myspace was

ready to be launched. September 24 2012 Justin

timberlake took ownership

of the company

Tum

blr

Made in Febuary 2007 by David

karp Owned by yahoo On this website you can post

multimedia and other stuff to a

blog. Users can follow other users

and you can also have a a private

acount. As of November 30 2013 tumblr

hosts over 152.2 million blogs.

Snap c

hat

Snap chat was started by Spiegel

and bobby Murphy as a project for

one of Spiegel classes When he was a project design major

It started in April 2011

It’s shared more then 35om pictures

each day. Snapchat is one of the most popular

mobile apps. But also one of the

most controversial.

Inst

agra

m

Was launched on October 6th 2010

Is a online photo sharing place it has over 1000 million people on it

was invented by Kevin Systrom was built in sanfran instagram raised 25 million dollars

Ask

.Fm

Created june 2010 The site rapidly gained worldwide

popularity, with 80 million

registered users in 2013

They post 30 million questions a

day Ask.fm is now one of the 200 most

visited websites in the world

Sky

pe

Skype was founded in 2003 by

Janus friis.

Its first public beta version was

released on the 29 th of august in

2003.

On the 10 th of may 2011, Microsoft

acquired Skype.

Vin

e

Vine was invented by Don

Hofmann, Rus Yusupov, and Colin

Kroll. It was made in June 2012

Vine debuted January 24 th 2013

Vine is an app that allows users to

create a short video clip up to six

seconds long. It is owned by twitter

Youtu

be Began febuary 14 th 2005

Bought by google for 1.65 billion

dollars Within three years there were

1billion videos being viewed daily.

Number 2 search engine

Pinte

rest

Pinterest allows users to save

images and categorize them on

different boards. They can follow

other users' boards if they have

similar tastes. The most popular

categories, as of March 2012, were

home, arts and crafts,

style/fashion, and food. Started in December 2009

The iPhone app for pinterest made

in March 2013 In 2011 the I pad app was made

Face

book

Facebook was launched in February

2004.

Was founded by Mark Zuckerberg

with his

By September 2006 everyone of

the age of 13 and older with a valid

email address they could get

Facebook.

Kik Was released on October 19 2010

Reached 1million user registrations

It annonced 8 million dollars in

funding March 7 th 2011

April 22 2013 kik announced 19.5

million in series funding

Flic

kr

Was launched in 2004 by Ludicorp

Used for sharing photos and videos.

Has a total of 87 million registered

members and 3.5 million new

images uploaded daily. Allows you to create a profile page

and like other peoples posts.

Languages avaible for flickr are

Chinese, English, French, German,

Indonesian,Italian,Korean,

Portuguese, Spanish, Vietnamese.

Impact

On 2

013

It is changing how we

communicate and interact with

other people Cyber bullying happening a lot

lately Also on things like Facebook and

twitter people are becoming friends

with people that they don’t even

know People have ruined there

friendships by being friends with

the strangers instead of there real

friends

Our

opin

ion

As you can tell, there positive and

negative effects of having a social

media account. In our opinion we

think that there are more negative

effects like, cyber bullying,

becoming friends with people you

don’t know and even more.