Just about everyone reading this post has a Facebook, Myspace, Twitter, or a combination of them.  Social Media over the past decade has turned in BIG business generating billions of dollars.  Many companies are now focusing some of their marketing effort to social media because it is so simple to reach a large group of people with your message.  I have created a couple successful business by using social media and online forums to advertise.  The days of traditional marketing are gone.  It is time to pull the gloves off and fight for business.

I found an article today outlining the history of social media.  I thought it was a great write up so I contacted the author to ask if I could post it here.  Within a couple minutes a response was in my inbox.

Social Media – A History of Social Media and Social Media Marketing

“FRIENDSTER, MYSPACE, FACEBOOK, TWITTER – what more can we have in the coming years? These social networking sites have been setting the whole online world ablaze for several years now. Today, new words have been lexiconized like tweet, digg, wall posts, aggregator, atom feeds, blog and the like. Many of these have become household names to some extent.

The comfy lifestyle and convenience that these social networking sites have brought to internet savvy users have become much priceless that tens of millions of people have been signing up, updating and maintaining their social media pages daily or to some extent, even 24/7. Several years back, on the early conception period of these online social media sites, the situation was much different than it is today.

To say that social networking sites have improved is an understatement. In all fairness, the social networking market has grown and heightened by light years in a span of a decade or so. To measure the extent of improvement that social networking have achieved and surpassed, it is necessary to open the book of its times of yore- how was social networking in the past decade and how far has social networking trekked in that span of years?

A brief history of Social Networking sites would be a good place to start off before we get into how Social Media has evolved.”

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