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Social Media: Evolving

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    The Evolution of Social Media

    The main platforms being focused on this timeline from 2004 until the modern day include: Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, Snapchat, Instagram, Tumblr, Vine, Pinterest, Google+, LinkedIn, Reddit, Flickr, and Vine. There will also be focus points on key legal developments that have changed social media.

  • Mosaic: Founded

    Mosaic was founded by Andreesen and Bina. Although they did not steal the name of the first web browser (WorldWideWeb), they were the first to pioneer a browser that could be used by all kinds of individuals and be useful for the modern public. Without them, none of the social media platforms we have today would exist.

  • LinkedIn: Founded

    Founded by Hoffman, Blue, Ly, Vaillant, and Guericke

  • LinkedIn: Launch

    LinkedIn was launched in order to develop networking on a professional level that was convenient to use by employers and applicants, as well as aesthetically pleasing and efficient.

  • Facebook: Founded

    Facebook was founded by Mark Zuckerberg hoping to create a social media network that inspired interactions similar to those he felt in college. It has since boomed for all kinds of users.

  • Flickr: Founded

    Flickr was founded by Ludicorp as a form of sharing specifically visual mediums through the forms of photos. Still life photography all the way to digital meshes, Flickr lives on for so long due to its particular niche that provides convenience for all hobbies and their documents.

  • YouTube: Founded

    YouTube was the first social media platform to utilize moving visuals. Now it hosts much more than home videos, but entire animations, movies, and official shows. It also boasts the name as the second most used engine right behind its current owner. Here is the first YouTube video ever posts: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jNQXAC9IVRw

  • Flickr: Bought

    Yahoo bought Ludicorp who was the founder of Flickr for $25 million dollars.

  • Reddit: Founded

    Reddit is used by 231 million monthly visitors as well as 36 million accounts that allows people to interact under subreddits categorized into different interests. These can range from advice to the obscure, and is often used by clickbait sites by compiling interesting stories from r/AskReddit. This is a subreddit that allows people to ask on users of the whole site of their personal experiences on a subject.

  • Twitter: Founded

    Famous for using 140 characters or less like a traditional text message, Twitter is more often than not the first medium of choice for its short yet satisfying nuggets of information. It is also well known as the preferred platform of communication of the current POTUS.

  • YouTube: Bought

    Bought and linked to by Google, the platforms team up to create an amazing machine of advertisement and user analysis to increase modern day capitalism.

  • Tumblr: Founded

    Founded by David Karp, Tumblr is one of the most notorious social media platforms for its limitless bounds of creativity through videos, blog text posts, pictures, and even audio recordings as to provide as many creative possibilities as possible. Only recently implementing direct messaging, Tumblr has proven to be a complex maze to this day.

  • Morse vs. Frederick

    Morse v. Frederick, 551 U.S. __, 127 S. Ct. 2618 (2007)
    This legal case allowed school officials to maintain order by disagreeing with the display of inappropriate materials on school grounds and expressing the means to deal with them and not violating the first amendment of the U.S. when doing so.

  • Pinterest: Founded

    Pinterest is a simulation of a pin board used to express ideas and methods to complete or create a variety of things. This social media platform is a favorite for the female niche as well as small businesses and homemade goods distributors.

  • Instagram: Founded

    Instagram is a social media platform based solely on photos and captions mixed with tags similar to Twitter's implementation in order to find niches of interests. This tool has been highly capitalized by foods and celebrities, but is useful for small businesses as well to market goods.

  • Snapchat: Founded

    Snapchat is a social media platform based on temporary photos to individual friends, groups, or even local events. It used to have a limit of 10 seconds and limited features but has now boomed to be a fun tool for expression.

  • Google+: Founded

    Google+ was founded with high hopes of utilizing circles or particular networks or friends. Found to not be as initially friendly with everyday users, the platform has been a great networking tool for those beyond the middle class threshold as well as for engineers and investors.

  • Vine: Founded

    Known for the 6 seconds of fame, this social media platform pushed creativity into short videos that fulfilled the immediate gratification factors of the human brain in a short amount of time, allowing for binging. Vine was actually taken over by Twitter in October of the same year of foundation, only to fail as a toddler at the beginning of the 2017 year.

  • Elonis vs. U.S.

    This legal case displays the means of the first amendment through expression without suspicion from authorities. Expression over intent were shown to not be enough evidence for conviction or questioning.