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MySpace
Myspace is a free, advertising-supported service that allows users to create Web “profile” pages that feature photographs, express their interests, and, most importantly, link to other people’s profiles. The site can be used to keep in touch with friends, “meet” and become friends with new people, or find potential romantic partners. -
Facebook (2004)
The social network TheFacebook.com launched in February 2004. New users can create profiles, upload photos, join a preexisting group, and start new groups. The site has many components, including Timeline, a space on each user’s profile page where users can post their content and friends can post messages; Status, which enables users to alert friends to their current location or situation; and News Feed, which informs users of changes to their friends’ profiles and status. -
YouTube
YouTube, Web site for sharing videos. It was registered on February 14, 2005, by Steve Chen, Chad Hurley, and Jawed Karim, three former employees of the American e-commerce company PayPal. They had the idea that ordinary people would enjoy sharing their “home videos.” The company is headquartered in San Bruno, California. -
Twitter
Twitter, online microblogging service for distributing short messages among groups of recipients via personal computer or mobile telephone. Twitter incorporates aspects of social networking Web sites, such as Myspace and Facebook, with instant messaging technologies to create networks of users who can communicate throughout the day with brief messages, or “tweets.” -
Tumblr
The site, Tumblr, was launched in private beta in 2006 and to the public in early 2007. It hosted “tumblelogs,” or short-form blogs, of text and various other types of media. Users could make specially formatted posts for photos, videos, audio clips, links, quotes, and chat logs. -
WhatsApp
WhatsApp Messenger, or simply WhatsApp, is an American freeware, cross-platform centralized messaging and voice-over-IP service owned by Facebook, Inc. It allows users to send text messages and voice messages, make voice and video calls, and share images, documents, user locations, and other content. -
Instagram
Instagram is a free, online photo-sharing application and social network platform that was acquired by Facebook in 2012. Instagram allows users to edit and upload photos and short videos through a mobile app. Users can add a caption to each of their posts and use hashtags and location-based geotags to index these posts and make them searchable by other users within the app. -
Twitch
Twitch is a live streaming site popular with gamers that lets you share live gameplay for others to watch and comment on in real time. You can also watch playbacks of games being played and chat to other gamers. -
Snapchat
Snapchat is a popular messaging app that lets users exchange pictures and videos (called snaps) that are meant to disappear after they're viewed. It's advertised as a "new type of camera" because the essential function is to take a picture or video, add filters, lenses or other effects and share them with friends. -
Facebook (2012)
Facebook went from the world's biggest social network to the world's most closely watched young company in America. But, really, even before it filed for its IPO back in back in February, Mark Zuckerberg and Co. had launched a fleet of new money-making initiatives to prove Facebook could generate as much in revenue and profit as it could in likes and shares. -
Tinder
It's a free mobile dating app that matches you with singles in your area. Tinder basically launched the location-based dating app craze back in 2012, and it's still the most popular dating app in the US. -
Musical.ly
Musical.ly is an app that blends social networking and music together into a unique do-it-yourself video platform. Videos typically show lip-syncing, dance routines and comedy parodies. Much like other social networking sites, users can like and comment on other videos, and even remix them and share them on again. -
Discord
Discord is a free voice, video, and text chat app that's used by tens of millions of people ages 13+ to talk and hang out with their communities and friends. It's a home for communities of any size, but it's most widely used by small and active groups of people who talk regularly. -
Tiktok (2017)
TikTok is one of the most popular and most interesting social media apps on the planet, but it has yet to enter the lexicon of most average Americans. Users film videos of themselves lip-syncing or acting out comedy sketches, up to 15 seconds long, and can choose from a database of songs, effects, or sound bites. Collaboration is a major incentive you can do a “duet” with someone by replying to their video, which creates a split-screen diptych, thus feeding into an endless chain of reactions. -
Tiktok (2019)
the mobile app TikTok is the newest contender for the throne. It has even led to the growth of the competitor platform Triller, which aims to take some of the attention away from the app.TikTok is still undiscovered territory for anyone over the age of 25. Extremely popular with Gen Z , TikTok is a glimpse into what it means to be growing up in today’s hyper-connected world.