Social Media History
The popular platform that allowed you to display your top 8 favorite people
What is Myspace?
This 2014 viral trend involved individuals pouring buckets of water over their heads, often to raise awareness and funds for ALS research
What is the Ice Bucket Challenge?
The platform that allows the sharing of images and GIFs in a bulletin board-style layout, categorized into topics of interest
What is Pinterest?
The platform that was acquired by Facebook for $1 billion in 2012
What is Instagram?
This platform's logo is blue because the founder is red-green colorblind
What is Facebook?
The university where Mark Zuckerberg and his college roommates founded Facebook
What is Harvard?
In 2012, this viral trend involved participants striking a pose imitating the mannequins, freezing in place while a camera pans around them
What is the Mannequin Challenge?
The platform originally known for its square images and filters
What is Instagram?
The video-sharing platform that was acquired by Google for $1.65 billion
What is YouTube?
This zoo was featured in the very first uploaded YouTube video "Me at the Zoo"
What is the San Diego Zoo?
The platform that limited users to posting only 140 characters
What is Twitter?
The Skateboard Cranberry Challenge is often set to this greatest song hit by Fleetwood Mac
What is Dreams?
The platform that has a new name, but still has its former brand incorporated on its website
What is X?
The company that acquired LinkedIn in 2016 for $26.2 billion
What is Microsoft?
The day the world's first tweet was sent
What is March 21, 2006?
The search engine that launched its own social media platform, but ultimately shut down in 2019
What is Google?
The brand of laundry detergent pods that social media users challenged each other to eat during this dangerous trend
What is Tide?
The audio-only platform that launched in 2020
What is Clubhouse?
The messaging app acquired by Facebook that allows users to send encrypted messages and make voice and video calls
What is WhatsApp?
This music video was the first video to surpass 10 billion views on YouTube
What is Baby Shark?
Before TikTok, this short-form video platform launched in 2013 that allowed users to create and share looping 6-second videos
What is Vine?
Facebook introduced this feature in its early days, which allowed users to send a virtual gesture to friends, but often left recipients puzzled about its purpose
What is a poke?
The platform for professional networking
What is LinkedIn?
This popular live video streaming platform was acquired by Amazon
What is Twitch?
This social media feature was not fully embraced on Instagram until 2011
What is a hashtag?