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The end of social media

The Gray Area with Sean Illing

CHAPTER

The Transition From Social Networks to Social Media

The term social media has been around for a while, but it wasn't called that in 2006 or 2007. Instagram is sort of the moment when it was arrived and began to take off. We didn't really get social media until the smartphone was not just invented but adopted at scale. And then you needed an ability to both consume and author what we now call content.

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