Social Media-What are it's advantages and disadvantages on society today and how has its perspectives change over time?

By TroyceP

  • CompuServe-The first internet provider

    CompuServe was the first major commercial Internet srvice provider for the public in the United States.

  • Internet Users

    Seventy Million Computers were connected to the Internet by the year 2000.

  • Wikipedia

    Wikipedia, the online encyclopedia and world's largest wiki,was created.

  • MySpace

    In 2003 Myspace was created.

  • The turn of social media

    In 2004, Facebook, a social networking website,was created for students at Harvard College.

  • Facebook

    In 2005, Facebook launched a version for Highschool students.

  • Twitter Invention

    Twitter was launched as a social netwroking site that allowed users to recieve and send 140-character messages callled 'tweets'.

  • News Platform

    The Interntet became popular for finding out news. The internet surpassed the newspaper as the primary source for Americans to remain updated.

  • Concerns

    Public sharing of personal information via social media brought about privacy issues and concerns.

  • Social Media Users

    Youtube- 4 billion views per day.
    Facebook-1.11 billion.
    Twitter-500 million registered useres.
    Google-343 million users.

  • Internet access

    Eighty-five percent of the 7.1 billion population of the world have access tp the internet.