American Innovation: 13 Born-in-the-USA inventions

Social media

Starting with Friendster in 2002 and MySpace in 2003, social networks represented a new way to stay connected. In 2004, Mark Zuckerberg took the world of social networking by storm by launching the now-ubiquitous Facebook in his Harvard University dorm room.
Now, according to Facebook, more than 600 million people use the website (about half of whom log on in a given day), and people spend about 700 billion minutes on Facebook per month (that’s just about 1.3 million years per month spent on Facebook globally).

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