Social Medi A Cultural Phenomenon - 2537 Words

The World Wide Web, otherwise known as the internet, is vastly becoming and has become a cultural phenomenon for everyone around the world of all ages. It is a social environment and place for people to interact with one another and create close relationships with; in some way or form, the internet has connected us all together. With the internet comes social networking where in recent years, has sky-rocketed into an important component in young adults’ lives; this is where social media platforms, such as Instagram and Facebook, come into hand. With increasing advancements in the technological world, it encourages people to develop and surround their lives with those technology improvements. People feel that they have to follow the trend†¦show more content†¦History of Social Media Growing up, children did not rely on technology to keep them entertained; it was enjoyable to be outdoors and indoors where children play sports or invents games of their own. Nowadays, one would most likely see children spending time on an iPad instead of riding a bike. For young adults, they spend time and are always on their smart phones browsing through their social media applications rather than having face-to-face interactions with those around them. All this technology talk did not begin until the 1970s when the Bulletin Board System, otherwise known as the BBS, was introduced alongside CompuServe, a service that â€Å"†¦allowed members to share files and access news and events† (Digital Trends, 2014). But it was not until AOL, America Online, when people really started to interact with others over the World Wide Web. They were best known for their chat rooms where its members would be able to interact with anyone through messaging (Digital Trends, 2014). By the 1990s, Yahoo and Amazon was brought up and the â€Å"†¦race to get a PC in every household was on† (Digital Trends, 2014). Social networking did not become popular until the lau nch of Friendster, an online community connecting people who had similar interests, in 2002 which