The Last 5 Years in Social Media
Facebook hit the 500 million user mark this week, and Mashable takes a look back at the last 5 years in social media.
I wonder if in 2005, may people expected what has happened in the past 5 years. Back then, we talked most about page views, site traffic, etc. We weren’t talking about connections. About videos or articles or blogs going viral. (at least not to the extent we talk about it now). We didn’t have conversations about the newest pop superstar, and how he or she was discovered by making videos of themselves and posting them online.
Of course, all of these things were happening in small part 5 years ago. But now, they are woven into the fabric of every day life. Perhaps that’s the most stunning thing about social media’s development over the past 5 years … how pervasive it is.
I wonder if the next 5 years will be just as amazing to us when we look back in 2015.
