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Social media day: History and significance

 

Social Media Day is celebrated on June 30th, every year. In its short life, online media has reclassified how individuals connect, communicate, and share with family, friends, and the world. 

With the dispatch of Friendster in 2002 and MySpace in 2003, online media became standard. At that point, 2004 brought the establishment of the ruler of online media, Facebook. Twitter urged us to be brief by posting our message with less than 140 characters. At the point when we put ourselves out there better through symbolism, Instagram, and Flickr offer all the sharing that we can do. Also, talking about video, YouTube is the social spot for everything from mainstream society to what not to do with your firecrackers on Diwali. 

 

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Online media makes it conceivable to remain connected and educated about those notable people in our lives. Reconnecting with cohorts, past work companions , and more is additionally an important part of online media. It has additionally made it conceivable to associate with ancestors and discover family members you never knew at any point  existed. Indeed, the family tree has become an online media stage too. MyHeritage.com, Ancestry.com, and numerous others all stock a social stage where inaccessible relatives conceivably meet and reconnect. There are so many cases that we come across where an adopted child somehow manages to search his/her biological parents through these platforms.  

 

HISTORY

Like any other wonder, online media started in some place, as well. Here are a few highlights concerning the start of online media. 

 

WHEN DID IT FIRST START? 

In view of our meaning of online media, the first was one made in 1997. 

In any case, there was something many refer to as the PLATO framework which was made in 1973 at the University of Illinois. It was to help students visit and offer notes and share screens on the web. However, since it doesn't meet a part of our rules for being a online media, we don't consider it as the main online media. 

 

All in all, WHAT WAS THE FIRST SOCIAL MEDIA? 

Six degrees was the first ever online media. The name focuses on the "six levels of separation" hypothesis, which asserts that "everybody on the planet is connected with every other person by close to six levels of separation". 

It was the first site that empowered clients to have a profile. Profile looks like the client's personality and allows them to live it. Prior to that, imagining having a virtual character was somewhat harder than now. 

 

WHO FIRST INVENTED SOCIAL MEDIA? 

It relies upon your meaning of online media. In any event, when we're discussing the web period, we ought to pick a starting point. If we start it with our easygoing meaning of online  media, the appropriate response is Andrew Weinreich, the owner of Six Degrees in 1997. However, some may point at Usenet which was made in 1979 at the University of North Carolina. Remember that this one was made before the World Wide Web and it was only a neighborhood organization.

Here is a timeline of all the social media platforms that followed-

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The effect of online media has set off a conversation of the 'new communication democracy.' It is a tech achievement that has fashioned crucial change all through society. Interpersonal interaction empowers people to make and share content, form long lasting relationships  and far reaching communication and even break from reality. Today, we can send messages from one state to the next surprisingly fast, using pictures, video, and text to share our lives, our authentic character. 

The ascent of the media has made individual stories open up to the world; neighborhood issues become worldwide. It has certainly gotten better with time and developments  are proceeding to make strides each day, changing our communication practices and potential outcomes. It's difficult for us to even imagine a life without social media now.

If you are thinking about celebrating this day then all you have to do is post about it on your social media accounts. That's it. Yes it's that simple!