1. Social Networking and Mobile Devices

2. What is social networking?

3. 1976-77

4. Early 1990s World Wide Web was invented and began to be used by the public

5. 1998- Google is launched

6. 1996- ICQ chat was launched

7. 1990-MSN messenger was created

8. 2001- Apple launches itunes

9. 2003- Myspace is launched

10. 2003- Instant messaging (IM) is generating five billion messages a day

11. 2004- Facebook is launched

12. 2005- Youtube launches

13. 2006- Twitter launches

14. 2009- The Internet now has 1.5 billion users and there are over 100 billion live web pages.

15. Mobile Devices

16. 1947- AT&T commercialized Mobile Telephone Service

17. Prior to 1973, mobile cell-phones were used for cars

18. 1973- First hand-held mobile phone

19. 1991

20. 1992 -the first SMS messaging was used

21. 1997-2003 in Japan

22. 2000- gradual increase of text messaging

23. 2002- First Blackberry device

24. 2004- 500 billion SMS messages in 2004.

25. 2007- First iPhone

26. 2007- Android operating system launched

27. 2011- iMessage released