We went from draining our data plans and digitally poking friends on Facebook to being constantly immersed in an endless sea of memes.
In 2010, fewer than one billion people were signed on. That number has since tripled, and Facebook, with its 1 billion users, has remained the market leader since dethroning Myspace.In 2010, Facebook was still defined by one major feature: the Wall. It's where you went to leave a thoughtful message or inside joke for your friend. A year later, CEO Mark Zuckerberg killed it with the introduction of Timeline.
The decade was most notably defined by privacy scandals, and it has famously been accused of propagating and spreading so-called"fake news."While the microblogging website went live in 2006, Twitter didn't have an official mobile app until 2010 when it launched on iOS and Android. In the early days, there was the restrictive 140 character messages and little else.
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