The Evolution of Social Media Social Media has been around since the late 1990s but has only started to impact society largely since 2004 in the introduction of Facebook. Over the past 16 years, there has been a lot of social media sites come and go, but we have listed the ones we believe that have had the largest impact on our in our timeline: 2004 Facebook In 2004 Mark Zuckerberg 2005 created Facebook. It was originally called Thefacebook and later changed to Facebook, it now has over 1.6 billion users. YouTube 2005 In 2005 YouTube was created by Chad Hurley, Steve Chen and Jawed Karim as a video-sharing website, users can upload, view, rate, comment on videos, while being able to subscribe to content on the site. As of Reddit October 2020, YouTube is the 2006 second most popular website in In 2005 Reddit was created by the world. Steve Huffman and Alexis Ohanian, and Aaron Swartz. As a platform for news aggregation and social commentary with over 300 million users. 2010 Twitter In 2006 Twitter was created by Jack Dorsey, Evan Williams, Biz Stone. you have a limited number of characters to get your ideas across, it can be through both words and images. Instagram 2010 In 2010 Instagram was created by Kevin Systrom as a photo-sharing site and purchased by Facebook in 2012. It is used by over 1 bilion people. Pinterest 2011 In 2010 Pinterest was created by Ben Silbermann, Evan Sharp and Paul Sciarra as a way for people to share visual ideas and inspiration for various projects. it currently has 322 million Snapchat users. In 2011 Snapchat was created by Evan Spiegel, Bobby Murphy 2015 and Reggie Brown. it was originally called Picaboo but they changed it to Snapchat three months later. It currently has 249 million users worldwide and is availble in 37 languages. Discord 2016 In 2015 Discord was created by Jason Citron and was originally designed for gamers. Today, it has over 250 million registered users with an average of 25 billion messages sent monthly TikTok In 2016 TikTok was developed by ByteDance in China the Chinese name for it is Douyin. It is a video sharing site that was merged with a U.s based site called Musical.ly in 2018. Short 30 to 60-second videos are created, there are many different genres of video from baking, education and dance. .