I think my start in Social Media was about ten years ago with the use of AIM, and I now mainly use Facebook. If AIM (AOL Instant Messanger) doesn’t count, then I believe my first “service” to sign up for was Myspace in 2001 or 2002, I forget now. I still use AIM and my girlfriend (at the time) made me a Facebook a couple years ago. The Myspace account is now mainly used to check out bands/music related stuff but I still use it a couple times a month. It gets much less attention than my Facebook, which is interesting because at first, I didn’t like Facebook nearly as much. I think I use the Myspace less because it has a lot of cluttered stuff and lags when loading people’s profiles. Although, I don’t blame Myspace for this, I blame all the people who think they can design a cool custom profile but just end up filling it with every little bell and whistle that they can. I am not quite sure if filesharing services count, but if they do then I also had Napster, KaZaA and Soulseek around the same time. Soulseek was the last file sharing service I used and was the best. The main part of KaZaA that was “social” was the ability to chat with other users. Soulseek had this simple text feature as well except it had chat rooms with different topics, most of which were genres of music, as well as movies. For example, there would be different rooms for rock, metal, indie, hip-hop, and countless subgenres. I came across a lot of good bands this way because users were able to recommend artists to check out.
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