Social Media & Online Communities · Recorded milestone
Social networks
Recorded year2004
Facebook and its peers connect billions through feeds and profiles.
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Led to
- Social network adsRecorded · 2007enables
- News with verifiable sourcesRecorded · 2024enables
- AI video social networkRecorded · 2025enables
- Minimum age for social mediaRecorded · 2025enables
- Most posts written by AIForecast · ~2027enables
- Population mental-health early warningForecast · ~2028enables
- Proof-of-human badgesForecast · ~2028enables
Sources & evidence
Dataset updated 2026-10-18. This individual record has not been separately re-reviewed.