10 Things You Didn't Know About Social Media
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10 Things you didn’t know about Social Media
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#1The first social networking
site in Internet history entered the scene in 1997. It
was called Six Degrees. However, the site ultimately
flopped in 2001.
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The first prominent social network was called Friends Reunited, a British site that helped users find old school pals. It was founded in 1999 and launched publicly a year
later.
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Friendster, an American social networking site, was
opened to the public in 2002. Facebook would eventually
be referred to as the "Friendster" for college
students.
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LinkedIn was started the same year as MySpace in
2003.
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The reason the Facebook logo is blue is because
founder Mark Zuckerberg is red-green color blind and blue stands out the
most.
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Around 350 million photos are uploaded to
Facebook every day, accounting for 4% of all
photos ever taken.
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FriendStalker was an early name for Twitter.
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Election Day 2012 was the most tweeted about
event in U.S. political history with 37.7 million
tweets.
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Nearly 90% of Facebook users reside outside the
U.S.
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YouTube reaches more U.S. adults in the 18-34 age bracket than any
cable network.
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