With great social media power comes great social responsibility
1969 was famous for many reasons. Right from the Bryan Adams song that pervaded pop culture for many decades to the landing of the Apollo 11 mission on the moon. 1969 witnessed Woodstock and the flight of the first 747 jumbo jet. Amidst all of these significant milestones in human history, there was a small step that was taken that would eventually change the course of human history. On an ordinary Wednesday, the 29 th of October in 1969, at about 10:30 PM, Charley Kline attempted to send a message from one host computer to another host computer. The first message that was ever transmitted on the internet was “lo”, a truncated version of “login”, which was supposed to be the original message. It was not until the dawn of the new millennium that social media took birth. In 2002, Friendster, the first ever true social networking site was created. It gained 3 million followers in just the first few months. Google then attempted to buy the company for 30 million dollars the next yea...