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From Emails To Viral Dances: Check Out This Brief History Of Social Media

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In February 2004, a Harvard student called Mark Zuckerberg launched The Facebook, a social media site he had built to connect university students. The following day, over a hundred people had registered. At the time, Zuckerberg realized that his idea was promising, even if he didn’t predict that it’d make him a billionaire.

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Did you know that Facebook is the most used social media platform in the world? It currently has 2.91 billion monthly active users, which means that over 36% of the global population is on the site, liking, commenting, uploading holiday photos, and secretly catching up with their high school classmates’ lives.

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