The History of Social Media is the Internet
I want to highlight an article about the history of social media that my friend Zaskoda shared on his blog. Zaskoda has been ahead of the curve on the web for years.
Here’s an entry about Social Media from Wikipedia that he found:
Social media is information content created by people using highly accessible and scalable publishing technologies that is intended to facilitate communications, influence and interaction with peers and with public audiences, typically via the Internet and mobile communications networks.
The Internet has been about people creating content for years. What is new is that many more people are doing it… and its getting easier ( or the people that grew up with it, the digital natives make it look easy ) and a lot more sharable.
I highly recommend you read Zaskoda’s article to get some perspective on how mature social media really is.
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