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Podcast: Clickstarter: Australian Digital Marketing Podcast
Episode: This is not the end of social media
Description: You probably didn’t realise that it’s social media’s 25th birthday this year.
Back in 1997, a website called Six Degrees attempted to show that we’re all connected by just six degrees of separation. It featured messaging between members and the ability to invite people to the platform.
It was probably a little ahead of its time though and closed in 2000.
Five years later, Friendster arrived and picked up where Six Degrees left off. It was originally a dating site where friends would set you up with their other friends to date.
It was a terrib...