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I didnt see this in the article and myspace was started in 2003, 2 years after 9/11.

by wand3r 8y ago

coldtea 8y ago
The parent makes a sarcastic comment, based on: > In the months and years after the 9/11 terrorist attacks, many of us censored what we spoke about on social media or what we searched on the internet. from the TFA. i.e. Which those "many of us" were, and what "social media" were they censoring themselves in around 9/11? Since (a) the only successful website that one would classify as "social media" back then was MySpace, and (b) it was mostly for teens, (the parent asks) if people on social media back then censored themselves, does that mean that teens of MySpace censored themselves? Either the article is BS on that part, or teens at the time quite politically aware....
- _Schizotypy 8y ago
  Thank you. Not sure why I'm getting so many down votes, maybe people are super passionate about MySpace time-line accuracy
- dredmorbius 8y ago
  "Social media" as a term was not well-established at the time, but the notion of online user-generated and social content predates even the Web: Usenet and mailing lists date to the 1970s. By 2001, there were these, blogs, and aggregators such as Slashdot, as well as many online news and magazine sites, especially in the infotech space. So an active community. The post-9/11 era extended well through the aughts. GeoCities was one of the Internet's earliest social networking websites, appearing in November 1994, followed by Classmates in December 1995, Six Degrees in May 1997, Open Diary in October 1998, LiveJournal in April 1999, Ryze in October 2001, Friendster in March 2002, LinkedIn in May 2003, hi5 in June 2003, MySpace in August 2003, Orkut in January 2004, Facebook in February 2004, Yahoo! 360° in March 2005, Bebo in July 2005, Twitter in July 2006, Tumblr in February 2007, and Google+ in July 2011. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_media https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_media https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=social+media&year_start=1990&year_end=2008&corpus=15&smoothing=3&share=&direct_url=t1%3B%2Csocial%20media%3B%2Cc0 https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=social+media&y...
- slededit 8y ago
  MSN messenger would have counted. We definitely joked about the CIA reading conversations. It also seemed like my more outlandish comments would get send error's more frequently than normal but perhaps that was just me being paranoid.
- acct1771 8y ago
  The TFA?
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_Schizotypy 8y ago
So which social media site were YOU active on in 2001?

I didnt see this in the article and myspace was started in 2003, 2 years after 9/11.

by wand3r 8y ago

I didnt see this in the article and myspace was started in 2003, 2 years after 9/11.

The parent makes a sarcastic comment, based on: > In the months and years after the 9/11 terrorist attacks, many of us censored what we spoke about on social media or what we searched on the internet. from the TFA. i.e. Which those "many of us" were, and what "social media" were they censoring themselves in around 9/11? Since (a) the only successful website that one would classify as "social media" back then was MySpace, and (b) it was mostly for teens, (the parent asks) if people on social media back then censored themselves, does that mean that teens of MySpace censored themselves? Either the article is BS on that part, or teens at the time quite politically aware....

_Schizotypy 8y ago
Thank you. Not sure why I'm getting so many down votes, maybe people are super passionate about MySpace time-line accuracy
dredmorbius 8y ago
"Social media" as a term was not well-established at the time, but the notion of online user-generated and social content predates even the Web: Usenet and mailing lists date to the 1970s. By 2001, there were these, blogs, and aggregators such as Slashdot, as well as many online news and magazine sites, especially in the infotech space. So an active community. The post-9/11 era extended well through the aughts. GeoCities was one of the Internet's earliest social networking websites, appearing in November 1994, followed by Classmates in December 1995, Six Degrees in May 1997, Open Diary in October 1998, LiveJournal in April 1999, Ryze in October 2001, Friendster in March 2002, LinkedIn in May 2003, hi5 in June 2003, MySpace in August 2003, Orkut in January 2004, Facebook in February 2004, Yahoo! 360° in March 2005, Bebo in July 2005, Twitter in July 2006, Tumblr in February 2007, and Google+ in July 2011. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_media https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_media https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=social+media&year_start=1990&year_end=2008&corpus=15&smoothing=3&share=&direct_url=t1%3B%2Csocial%20media%3B%2Cc0 https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=social+media&y...
slededit 8y ago
MSN messenger would have counted. We definitely joked about the CIA reading conversations. It also seemed like my more outlandish comments would get send error's more frequently than normal but perhaps that was just me being paranoid.
acct1771 8y ago
The TFA?
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_Schizotypy 8y ago

So which social media site were YOU active on in 2001?