The Evolution of Social Media

1997 – Six Degrees was launched – widely held as the first social network.

1999 – Friends Reunited was launched.

2003 – LinkedIn, Photobucket, Delicious and MySpace were launched.

2004 – Digg was founded, Facebook launched as a Harvard Only Social Network.

2005 – Bebo, YouTube and Simply Hired were launched.

2006 – Facebook was launched to everyone. Twitter was founded.

2008 – Facebook was recognized as the most popular social networking site.

2009 – Flickr claimed to host more than 3.6 billion images. Posterous was launched.

2010 – Enhance Media launches the UK’s first research led Social Media strategy service.

Enhance Media’s Social Media division is pioneering the way forward in online recruitment.

· We work exclusively within online recruitment and are a specialist strategy and social media organisation.

· We own the three largest pieces of online recruitment social media research in the UK. Uniquely, our work is based on data and fact rather than opinion.