Social Media has become a normal part of peoples lives daily now, but this has been evolving since early stages in the late 1970s from the original days of newsgroups, listservs and the first chatrooms. Social media has changed the way we interact and even the way we live to a certain degree.
From the Primitive Era of Social Media came the Medieval
Era(1988 – 1999) of Social Media where more people joined in the fun of it.
More and more ideas got brought in at this point including the first “create
program” and “add friends” ideas.
After these came the most impressive development stage of
Social Media: the Golden Age of Social Media(2001 – Present) in the past 15
years technology has rapidly developed from Blogs, to Friend meeting sites, to
video uploading/viewing websites literally billions of people use these sites
every second. With the internet reaching its Third BILLION user in 2014 there
is no wonder people are inspired to create new and amazing social media
websites and applications.
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Jamie McJannet
Other improvements that have been made in social media is that it is used on many different devices now like PCs, mobile phones, tablets and games consoles. People can take photos on their phone and upload them instantly using 3G and 4G and gamers can take screenshots on their consoles and upload them to facebook and twitter.
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