Social Media- History & Evolution
Compiled & Edited by Amira Husain
CONTENTS
Chapter | Page No.
The History of Social Media
Introduction
2
The Evolution Of Social Media
Timeline
Before Dawn
The Phone Phreaking Era
After The Dawn
3
3
3
9
A Little Insight
Precursors to Social Media
Major Advances in Social Networking
Other Major Social Networks
Company-Sponsored Social Networks
Media Sharing
Social News and Bookmarking
Real Time Updates
The iPhone’s Role in Real-Time Updates
Lifestreaming and Lifecasting
Social Everything
13
14
15
15
16
17
18
18
19
20
Conclusion
21
Bibliography
22
The History of Social Media
Where people interact freely, sharing and discussing information about their lives.
Social media are Internet sites where people interact freely, sharing and discussing information about each other and their lives, using a multimedia mix of personal words, pictures, videos and audio. Andreas Kaplan and Michael Haenlein define social media as “a group of Internet-based applications that build on the ideological and technological foundations of Web 2.0, and that allow the creation and exchange of user-generated content and engage in person-to-person conversations”.
Social media has become an integral part of modern society.
They appear in many forms including blogs and microblogs, forums and message boards, social networks, wikis, virtual worlds, social bookmarking, tagging and news, writing communities, digital storytelling and scrapbooking, and data, content, image and video sharing, podcast portals, and collective intelligence.
Furthermore, social media depend on mobile and web-based technologies to create highly interactive platforms through which individuals and communities share, co-create, discuss, and modify user-generated content. They introduce substantial and pervasive changes to communication between organizations, communities, and
CONTENTS
Chapter | Page No.
The History of Social Media
Introduction
2
The Evolution Of Social Media
Timeline
Before Dawn
The Phone Phreaking Era
After The Dawn
3
3
3
9
A Little Insight
Precursors to Social Media
Major Advances in Social Networking
Other Major Social Networks
Company-Sponsored Social Networks
Media Sharing
Social News and Bookmarking
Real Time Updates
The iPhone’s Role in Real-Time Updates
Lifestreaming and Lifecasting
Social Everything
13
14
15
15
16
17
18
18
19
20
Conclusion
21
Bibliography
22
The History of Social Media
Where people interact freely, sharing and discussing information about their lives.
Social media are Internet sites where people interact freely, sharing and discussing information about each other and their lives, using a multimedia mix of personal words, pictures, videos and audio. Andreas Kaplan and Michael Haenlein define social media as “a group of Internet-based applications that build on the ideological and technological foundations of Web 2.0, and that allow the creation and exchange of user-generated content and engage in person-to-person conversations”.
Social media has become an integral part of modern society.
They appear in many forms including blogs and microblogs, forums and message boards, social networks, wikis, virtual worlds, social bookmarking, tagging and news, writing communities, digital storytelling and scrapbooking, and data, content, image and video sharing, podcast portals, and collective intelligence.
Furthermore, social media depend on mobile and web-based technologies to create highly interactive platforms through which individuals and communities share, co-create, discuss, and modify user-generated content. They introduce substantial and pervasive changes to communication between organizations, communities, and
Bibliography: The Phone Phreaking Era (1950′s – Early 90′s) Early phreaks on “phone trip” to tinker with payphones CompuServe was the first major commercial Internet service provider for the public in the United States. Using a technology known then as dial-up, it dominated the field through the 1980s and remained a major player until the mid-1990s. 1971