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   When did social media start?

   • In a sense, social media began on May 24, 1844, with a series of electronic dots and dashes tapped out by hand on a telegraph machine. The first electronic message from Baltimore to Washington, D.C., proved Samuel Morse understood the historic ramifications of his scientific achievement: “What hath God wrought?” he wrote.

   The Evolution of Social Media: How Did It Begin, and Where Could It Go

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   What were the first social media platforms?

   • Using our definition of social media above, the first two social media platforms were Six Degrees and Friendster, both of which are no longer around, despite playing an influential role in starting what has become a social media revolution. The website credited as being the “first online social media” site is Six Degrees.

   History of Social Media: The Invention of Online Networking

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   What can we learn from the history of social media?

   • If we can learn anything from the history of social media, it’s that this will continue to change. New companies will emerge, and, as people’s preferences change, old ones will die or merge into something else, rewriting the history of social media as they do.

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2. online.maryville.edu › blog › evolution-socialThe Evolution of Social Media: How Did It Begin, and Where ...

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   May 28, 2020 · Table of Contents. A Brief History of Social Media. The Launch of Social Sites. Social Media: End Users and Businesses. How Marketing Pros Utilize Social Media. What’s Next For Social Media. The evolution of social media has been fueled by the human impulse to communicate and by advances in digital technology.

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   2 days ago · The earliest forms of social media appeared almost as soon as technology could support them. E-mail and chat programs debuted in the early 1970s, but persistent communities did not surface until the creation of the discussion group network USENET in 1979. USENET allowed users to post and receive messages within subject areas called newsgroups.

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5. www.techtarget.com › WhatIs › featureThe history and evolution of social media explained - TechTarget

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   Jul 11, 2023 · The definition of social media may evolve as the platforms themselves do, but the central component of community engagement should endure. Precursors to social media. While social media itself has only been around at scale since 2003, there were some initial platforms that paved the way for this kind of digital community.

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   Jun 16, 2015 · History of Social Media. Many people like to link the history of social media to the growth in communications technology that has been occurring since the end of the 19th century. A common starting point is Samuel Morse’s first telegraph, which he sent in 1844 between Washington, D.C. and Baltimore.

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   • Social media started in the early 2000s. MySpace was the first social media site to reach a million monthly active users – it achieved this milestone around 2004.
   • Facebook dominated the social media market for a decade, but five other platforms also have more than half a billion users. With 2.3 billion users, Facebook was the most popular social media platform in 2019.
   • Some social media sites are particularly popular among specific population groups. The aggregate numbers mask a great deal of heterogeneity across platforms.
   • In rich countries, almost all young people use social media. From a back-of-the-envelope calculation, we know that if Facebook had 2.3 billion users in 2019, then at least 30% of the world was using social media.2 This is just an average – usage rates were much higher for some world regions, specifically for some population groups.

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   In 2019, Merriam-Webster defined social media as "forms of electronic communication (such as websites for social networking and microblogging) through which users create online communities to share information, ideas, personal messages, and other content (such as videos)."

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   Jun 8, 2023 · When did social media start? If social media is just a means of mass communication, you could argue that the telegraph, invented in 1844, was the first of its kind . But that’s a bit pedantic: social media as we know it probably began in 1997 with SixDegrees—a short-lived social-networking website for making friends.