Happy Social Media Day 👨🏽💻
The first social media site, Six Degrees, allowed users to create a profile and add other users as friends; it existed from 1997 to 2001. About the same time, blogging and instant messaging became popular. ICQ was an early instant messaging program, which was soon followed by AOL Instant Messenger. Myspace began in 2003, and for a time was the largest social media website in the world. It set the template for social media sites such as Facebook and Twitter.