Social media today
After the invention of blogging, social media began to
explode in popularity. Sites like MySpace and LinkedIn gained prominence
in the early 2000s, and sites like Photobucket and Flickr facilitated
online photo sharing. YouTube came out in 2005, creating an entirely new
way for people to communicate and share with each other across great
distances.
By 2006, Facebook and Twitter both became available to
users throughout the world. These sites remain some of the most popular
social networks on the Internet. Other sites like Tumblr, Spotify,
Foursquare and Pinterest began popping up to fill specific social
networking niches.
Today, there is a tremendous variety of social networking
sites, and many of them can be linked to allow cross-posting. This
creates an environment where users can reach the maximum number of
people without sacrificing the intimacy of person-to-person
communication. We can only speculate about what the future of social
networking may look in the next decade or even 100 years from now, but
it seems clear that it will exist in some form for as long as humans are
alive.
By Mbogo Tausi
BAPRM 42611
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