(McFadden, 2018)

McFadden, C. (2018). A Chronological History of Social Media. [online] Interestingengineering.com. Available at: https://interestingengineering.com/a-chronological-history-of-social-media [Accessed 27 Oct. 2019].

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(McFadden, 2018) predicts social media will make traditional media go extinct.  
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(McFadden, 2018) social media has become an eco-system 
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Human beings are social creatures, we thrive on, and in fact need, social interactions to maintain a healthy life and mind.

Social media taps into these primal needs of human beings and it should come as no surprise that social media sites and social media apps are so popular today.
But there is more to them than that. Social media sites/apps offer users some valuable opportunities. 
- They provide a platform to meet new people and make friends often cross international borders
- They allow users to join groups of others who share their passions and interests
- They are free (but as we all know "if there is no product to buy you are the product")
- Specialized forums or platforms provide a large network to potentially find a new job
- Other networks like Twitter have become a valuable way to get fast and real-time news on a situation. Often this information can be seen 'raw' without any traditional media bias or opinion mixed in.
With the rise in popularity of early social media sites, it was only a matter of time before business took notice of the growing trend.
Savvy entrepreneurs quickly jumped on the wagon to promote themselves and products eventually evolving into the mass social media marketing industry we are all familiar with today.
Businesses and private individuals have seen the importance and reach social media has. Some have even managed to use it to make a pretty decent living.

What is social media exactly?

Social media is typically defined today as:-
"Websites and applications that enable users to create and share content or to participate in social networking" - OxfordDictionaries
But is this an accurate definition? It can be argued that social media is nothing new, in fact, it is as old as long-distance communication itself.
Yes, it has moved online and become far more rapid and sophisticated over the last few decades, but what is the difference really? Facebook et al are simply natural progressions on an age-old media.
So without further ado, let get stuck in the history of social media.

16. Photosharing, MMO's and online storage become popular

Year or period: 2003
Photo sharing became mainstream when the likes of Photobucket and Flickr, amongst others appeared in 2003.
SecondLife also launched in 2003. This is one of the forerunners to today's massively multiplayer online role-playing games.
Del.icio.us, the online social storage, sharing and discovery of web bookmarks was also born in 2003.

18. YouTube launches in 2005

Year or period: 2005
YouTube first appeared in 2005 which opened an entirely new method of communication. The ability to create and share media over very long distances was such a game-changer that it has become something of a behemoth ever since.
Other notable launches this year included Yahoo!360, Bebo and the "mighty" Reddit. Social media was started to find its legs.
2006 saw the advent of 'proper' Facebook. It remains one of the most popular social media networks on the internet, and by extension, the world.
Facebook has had staggering growth since 2006 and it is now one of the most visited site on the web.

22. Businesses 'cotton on' to the power of social media

Year or period: 2008
Around this time businesses really started to take notice of social media. Especially its power for advertising. Businesses started to open accounts and have links to them on their websites and other media.
With the great 'speciation' of social media since the 2000s, a method of unifying their unique features together was fast becoming a necessity. Pheed took advantage of this and launched its service.
Pheed allowed you share text, photo, audio, voice notes, video and live broadcasts in the same space. A strategy since copied by many of its forerunners.
Social media was also beginning to drive a lust for quick rapid-fire updates and information. This led to the launch of Twitter's Vine in 2012.
Vine, as you are probably aware, lets you share 6-second videos for no other reason than you just can.

26. Social media is a virtual ecosystem today

Year or period: 2011-2018
Today, there is an eye-boggling variety of social media network sites, many of which allow for sharing between each other. As you are all aware, this has enabled this media to allow maximum exposure for users without sacrificing interpersonal communication.
It's actually pretty amazing. Businesses and individuals could not imagine a world without it, such has been its infiltration in our lives.
It has changed our world, for better or good, and is set to make traditional media, like printed newspapers, extinct.

27. The future is uncertain

Year or period: 2018 - Onwards
Who can tell what will happen over the next few decades for social media? Will it even exist in ten, twenty or more years?
We can never know for sure but given societies rapid uptake of the medium so far it clearly meets a need we all have. We are social creatures after all and any form of media that makes meeting and talking with others with ease is likely to still exist in some form or other in the future.
Despite this apparent benefit, we have all seen the 'dark side' of social media over the last few years. Especially it's potential for being hijacked for political (from all positions) and other nefarious means of control.

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