Businesses and Social Media
History of Social Media Social media got its agreed upon start with a website called Six Degrees , which allowed people to establish profiles and find friends ("Then and now: a history of social networking sites", 2018). This social media website started in 1997 before the term "social media" ("Then and now: a history of social networking sites", 2018). While it had millions of users registered to the site, network growth was hindered due to the amount of people connected to the Internet ("Then and now: a history of social networking sites", 2018). Following Six Degrees, blogging as a platform became popular around 1999 and that popularity continues today (Karr, 2016). LinkedIn started in 2003 and Facebook came after that in 2004 (Karr, 2016). MySpace was also around in the early 2000s and still exists today (Hendricks, 2013). YouTube came onto the social media scene is 2005 (Hendricks, 2013). Facebook launched its first ad in 2005 (H...