what is social media

Social Media is the key to interacting with many people. Social media is booming nowadays because everybody is using it and it has become a part of life. Almost 99% of youth and even senior citizens are using social media in their daily lives. The number of active users is gradually increasing day by day. So if I say, social media is a part of life, I think I am not wrong. Because it’s we are now all the about our country and other country and what was the doing and what are happening all the things are known. Basically guys you know about the social media platform like:-

Instagram, YouTube, Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Snapchat, Telegram, QQ, Tumblr, Whatsapp, Reddit, Pinterest, Line, WeChat, Viber, Skype, Pinterest.

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  1. Social Media is the greatest opportunity to become start a career in digital marketing but this topic I cover the social media platform so, you easily understand.

History of Social Media

We are living in the 21st (twenty-first) century and we easily communicate with each other. But if we talk our past experience was not good. Interacting with friends and family to communicate with them was not easy and every human had seen the dream of long-distance communication. Face-to-face communication was the only option that was available at that time. So this situation faced the people and the first communication device was developed in 1792, the telegraph.

Social Media in 1900

In 1792, the telegraph was invented and this was the first tool for long-distance communication by possible letters. And telegraph was the first achievement for software engineers and it was the first key to the growth of this field.

After this telegraph was invented so many platform was invented.

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List of Social media apps-

Telegraph – 1830s and 1840s invented was Samuel Morse.

Facebook – Facebook on 4 February 2004. It was founded by Mark Zuckerberg.

Whatsapp – Whatsapp was invented in 2009 by Brian Acton and Jan Koum.

Instagram – Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger and originally launched on IOS in October 2010. 

Yahoo – Jerry Yang and David Filo in January 1994 and was incorporated on March 2, 1995.

Quora – Adam D’Angelo , and Charlie Cheever . It was founded on June 21, 2010.

pinterest – Ben Silbermann, Paul Sciarra, and Evan Sharp in December 2009.

Twitter – Jack Dorsey, Noah Glass, Biz Stone, and Evan Williams on July 15, 2006.

Skype – Niklas Zennstrom, Ahti Heinla Janus Friis in 2003.

Google+ – Larry Page, Sergey Brin in 1998.

Linkdin – Reid Hoffman, Allen Blue, Konstantin Guericke, Eric Ly, Jean-Luc Vaillant in 5 may 2003.

Snapchat – Evan Spiegel, Bobby Murphy, Reggie Brown in September 2011.

Tumblr – David Karp in 2007.

Line – Kang Byeongmok in 2011.

History of Telegraph

I know about the Telegraph in the above paragraph and I cover the rest of the other things. Firstly the Telegraph was invented in the 1830s and the 1840s invented was Samuel Morse. and it is the first communication medium in long-distance communication and the first achievement of software engineers. It worked by transmitting electrical signals over a wire laid between stations. Samuel Morse developed a code (bearing his name)  that assigned a set of dots and dashes to each letter of the English alphabet.

Samuel Morse provides the simple transmission of complex messages in telegraph lines. In 1884 Samuel Morse sent the first telegraph message, from Washington, D.C., to Baltimore, Maryland. After the Telegraph 21st, century more communication systems were provided like Telephone, fax machines, and the Internet.

And think the Telegraph was not invented before how people communicated and transmitted long-distance messages ancient civilizations such as those in China, Egypt, and Greece used drumbeats or smoke signals to exchange information between far-flung points.  But this method was limited by the weather and the need for an uninterrupted line of sight between receptor points. 

Facebook

To know the guy’s Facebook was the most popular software. Facebook was invented on February 4, 2004.  It was founded by Mark Zuckerberg and his classmates. Facebook was first name was Facebook after some time Mark Zuckerberg change the name and kept the name Facebook.

Mark Zuckerberg wrote the program on the Face mash website, The website was set up as a type of “hot or not ” game for Harvard students. Zuckerberg collects random images and compares the two images and found who was most attractive female, those times after the mark has an idea and after some time he has invented Facebook, he was more features add on his website like picture uploading, chatting, and most important features add on his point of her relationship status because mark wants to everybody check his or her relationship status. And after some time Facebook has a million followers and most popular software.

Whatsapp

Everybody to know about the Whatsapp but I know about you the depth knowledge of the Whatsapp. Firstly the Whatsapp was invented in 2009 by Brian Acton and Jan Koum. Brian Acton and Jan Koum were former employees of yahoo after leaving yahoo!!! in September 2007. Guy’s too shocked about the know these both brothers they applied on Facebook but both were rejected.

In January 2009, after purchasing an iPhone and feel the potential of the app industry on the App Store,  Koum and Acton began visiting Koum’s friend Alex Fishman in West San Jose to discuss a new type of messaging app that would “show statuses next to individual names of the people”. Koum named the app WhatsApp to sound like “what’s up”Koum named the app WhatsApp to sound like “what’s up”. On February 24, 2009. when early versions of WhatsApp kept crashing, and koum was giving up and dropped our plane and looking for a new job.

In June 2009, Apple launched puss notification but good result not to produce but after some time Whatsapp was 2.0 released with a messaging component, and the number of active users suddenly increased to 250,000. And he decides to join the company and some investors to invest in the company and he becomes a co-founder of the Whatsapp.

Instagram

Instagram was developed in San Francisco as Burbn, and the first Instagram post was a photo of South Beach Harbor at Pier 38, posted by Mike Krieger at 5:26 PM on July 16, 2010. And the first picture uploaded on Instagram was a dog photo and his girlfriend’s foot.

On October 6, 2010, the Instagram iOS app was officially released through the app store. And after the launch in February 2011, Instagram had raised $7 million in series funding from a variety of investors.

Yahoo!

It was founded by Jerry Yang and David Filo in January 1994 and was incorporated on 2 March 1995.

Yahoo provides a web portal, search engine Yahoo!, And related services including Yahoo! Handbook, yahoo! Mail, Yahoo! News, Yahoo! Finance, Yahoo! Group, advertising, online mapping, video sharing, fantasy sport, and more things Yahoo! Provided the users and was the most popular site in the united states. And Yahoo! Was the most-read news and media website. Yahoo! Most popular sites you related in this passage had 7 billion visitors per month and ranking as the sixth-most-visited website globally in 2016.

Twitter

Twitter is a social network handling site to interact with people by SMS and tweet. It is an American microblogging and social networking site with users post and interacts with messages known as tweet.

Twitter was developed by Jack Dorsey, Noah Glass, Biz Stone, and Evan Williams on July 15, 2006, but officially launched in July of that year. By 2012, more than 100 million users mailed 340 million tweets a day, and the employment dealt with a principle of 1.6 billion search quizzes per day. In 2013, it was one of the ten most-visited websites and has been described as “the SMS of the Internet”.As of 2018, Twitter had more than 321 million monthly active users.

Skype

Skype is the most useful tool to communicate with people through video calls, massaging, chatting, and another important tool is you are adding another person and communicate with two or more persons at a time. It was developed by Niklas Zennstrom, and Ahti Heinla Janus Friis in 2003. There were over 660 million worldwide users, At the end of 2010, with over 300 million estimated active each month as of August 2015. Most used by Skype during the pandemic coronavirus in 2020, with 70℅ growth this year.

Snapchat

It was founded by Evan Spiegel, Reggie Brown, and Bobby Murphy, in 2011 and all students at Stanford University. Snapchat is nowadays a very popular site and more than 229 million active users per day? On average more than 4 billion Snaps are sent each day. It is an American multimedia messaging app developed by snap inc. This software useful for sharing pictures for people to people and new features add on in snap chat were 24-hour stories and chronological content.

Pinterest

It was developed by Ben Silbermann, Paul Sciarra, and Evan Sharp in December 2009. Pinterest is an American image-sharing and social media service to enable the saving and discovery of information. It had 400 active monthly users as of August 2020. Pinterest collects images and provides users with good quality images and information and people saved time and know about more crucial knowledge.

Quora

Quora was developed by Adam D’Angelo and Charlie Cheever and was founded on June 21, 2010. It is an answers and questions website which means someone asked the question and another one gives the answer and internet users edited the answer this facility provides the quora. It is publically published on June 21, 2010.

LinkedIn

Linkedin is the online recruitment process for employees and owners to find the person employees to find a job and owners to find the employees. It is an American business and employment-oriented online service that operates via the website and mobile apps. As of May 2020, LinkedIn had 706 million enrolled members in 150 nations. It is an online process and easily connects with people.

Tumblr

Tumblr is an American microblogging and social networking website it was founded by David Karp in 2007. And this time it is owned by automatic, this service allows posting multimedia and other content to short-form blogs. Many users to follow the blog of other users and access the dashboard. Tumblr hosts over 475 million blogs on august 12, 2019.

Line

The line is a freeware instant communication on electronic devices like smartphones and tablets and computers. It was founded by Kang Byeongmok in 2011. It provides the facility for the users to exchange text, images, videos, and audio and conduct free VoIP conservation and video call conferences. To know more about the line click here.