What brought you to this site?

Were you earlier on EP? Why do you like this site over other social media kind of stuff?

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I was on EP; no idea what my user name was, had enough friends there who won't even know me now because I got out of EP at least a year before it closed it's doors. Nothing can touch social media that was around more than twenty years ago. It was much less complicated, everyone got on well. You had your own page which you could design and have content built around you. You had to make your space interesting to begin with. Forums (such as this) have been around decades and, compared to what's truly Social Networking, this is pretty bland to say the least :-)

Yahoo Messenger
Yahoo Chat
Yahoo! 360°

Social Media has been around a long, long time. You might find this interesting in showing how much things have changed ... certainly not all for the better:

http://www.adweek.com/digital/the-history-of-social-media-from-1978-2012-infographic/

blasphemy666 · 26-30, F

@Justbychance To be honest, I can only imagine how things used to be in the starting but I guess that in the beginning, things have a quality that only deteriorates as time moves on. The only analogy I can draw here is with music specially the radio. I used to listen to a bulky, inconvenient-to-carry radio all day long cuz the music of my choice wasn't readily available on phones, or i pods...but now radio is full of shitty music and commercials and that excitement of finding "that one song" which just made your day is no longer there....

Justbychance · M

[quote]I guess that in the beginning, things have a quality that only deteriorates as time moves on[/quote]

I'd say you have it right there in what you say. Yes, things do move on, and some might always say things change for the better. But had any of those people of today been around during the day of AOL, Yahoo Chat, Yahoo Messenger (and such) it was much more entertaining. Back 20+ years, this is how things moved onwards up to 2004:

1993: Mosaic, first browser adapted to the general public.
GeoCities, a service that allows users to create their own web pages.
1995: The Web has one million websites.
1997: GeoCities surpasses one million users.
AOL Instant Messenger allows Internet chat.
Blogging begins.
Google launches.
1998: GeoCities goes public.
Friends Reunited, the first social network to become popular among Internet users
Yahoo! buys GeoCities for 3.57 billion dollars.
The Blogger platform launches.
The dotcom bubble burst and the future of Internet is more uncertain than ever.
2000: 70 million computers are connected to the Internet.
Friendster launches. The social network reaches 3 million users in just three months.
2002: AOL has already reached 34 million users.
MySpace is launched.
2003: Google buys the Blogger platform.
Second Life launches.
LinkedIn launches social network for professionals.
2004: Facebook is born.
MySpace surpasses Friendster in number of page views.
Digg launches.
Bebo – an acronym for blog early, blog often launches