Did you know that before Facebook or MySpace – and even before Friendster – there was a social network called Friends Reunited? This infographic from MarketingDirecto.com contains this and other factoids from over 30 years of online social networking.
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The folks over at Grovo have released this cool new video explaining what we’re trying to do with social media, and how we got here. The video covers social media from its trivial to epic, and describes the phenomenon pretty well. May be a nice video to send along to an older family member who “doesn’t get this Facebook mumbo jumbo.”
