How did Social Media Grow with Time

Social Media Evolution
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Social Media Evolution
Social media emerged in the mid-nineteenth century, on May 1844, with a set of automated dashes and dots tapped out using hands on a machine. In hardly a generation, social media has grown from straight electronic data exchange, a retail concept, to a critical 21st-century marketing medium. The first-ever message from Baltimore to Washington indicated that Samuel Morse acknowledged his scientific achievement’s historical implications. The internet’s development promoted online communication services in the late twentieth century. Prodigy, America Online, and CompuServe are some services that familiarized users with email-based digital communication, online chatting, and board messaging (Vaughan-Nichols, 2015). This encouraged the beginning of ancient social media platforms. Six Degrees, which enabled effective uploading, came first. Friendster followed closely. These fundamental platforms have many users, allowing them to register emails and access online networks easily. Weblogs started gaining essence in 1999 as a digital social communication tool. LinkedIn originated in 2002 courtesy of career-based experts; it got a massive following worldwide in 2020. Many job-seekers have appreciated its potential and connected them to different employers. Introducing smartphones into the market freed social media from computers, including laptops (Qualman, 2012). Steve Jobs’s first Apple iPhone, developed in 2007, played a role in changing the online community focus to mobile. Social media platforms such as Instagram, Snapchat, Twitter, TikTok, Facebook, etc., flourished within the mobile application scenario. Technological advancements, and purposefully influential in-built cameras, transferred mobile apps’ focus to images and videos. Besides the written messages, users could conveniently air in real-time. Notably, Instagram became the chosen application for social media consumers valuing entertainment, fashion, travel, and other visually appealing concepts (Edosomwan et al., 2011).
Social media has shaped the planet considerably. The massive and quick adoption of social media and related technologies is modifying how users locate partners, access news and other information, and how they can systemize to call for political change. The world comprises nearly 7.7 billion individuals, with at least half of these connected to social media. For example, Facebook has about 2.4 billion followers and is a powerful social media platform on the planet. Other platforms, such as WhatsApp and YouTube, have more than one billion followers on their social sites (Méndez-Diaz et al., 2022). Despite these large numbers across social media platforms, people can embrace specific changes in social media. The most crucial social media change that humanity can consider is social media regulation at the national or international level and limiting the timespan spent on social media at the personal level. For example, from a personal perspective, individuals ca...