1. How ToSucceed AtYour SocialMedia FeedsBy: Nathan Young@nvyoung

2. First off, here are all of the social mediasites where you can find me! 3. So, are you on social media? 4. And you have barely anyone following you? 5. Have few followers on Google +, dont worry! 6. What Is Social Media?Social media are Internet sites where people interact freely,sharing and discussing information about each other and theirlives, using a multimedia mix of personal words, pictures,videos and audio. At these Web sites, individuals and groupscreate and exchange content and engage in person-to-personconversations.They appear in many forms including blogs and microblogs,forums and message boards, social networks, wikis, virtualworlds, social bookmarking, tagging and news, writingcommunities, digital storytelling and scrapbooking, and data,content, image and video sharing, podcast portals, andcollective intelligence.There are lots of well-known sites such as Facebook, LinkedIn,Twitter, YouTube, Pinterest, Instagram, Snapchat, MySpace,Flickr, WordPress, Blogger, Typepad, LiveJournal, Wikipedia,Wetpaint, Wikidot, Second Life, Reddit, Lulu and others. 7. How Facebook Got StartedFacemash, the Facebooks predecessor, opened onOctober 28, 2003. Initially, the website wasinvented by a Harvard student, Mark Zuckerberg,and three of his classmates Andrew McCollum,Chris Hughes and Dustin Moskovitz. Zuckerbergwrote the software for the Facemash website whenhe was in his second year of college. The websitewas set up as a type of hot or not game forHarvard students. The website allowed visitors tocompare two student pictures side-by-side and letthem choose who was hot and who was not.In January 2004, Mark Zuckerberg began writing thecode for a new website, known as 'theFacebook'. Hesaid in an article in The Harvard Crimson that hewas inspired to make Facebook from the incident ofFacemash: "It is clear that the technology needed tocreate a centralized Website is readily available ...the benefits are many." 8. How Twitter Got StartedTwitter began as an idea that Twitter co-founder JackDorsey had in 2006. Dorsey had originally imaginedTwitter as an SMS-based communications platform.Groups of friends could keep tabs on what each otherwere doing based on their status updates. Like texting,but not.During a brainstorming session at the podcastingcompany Odeo. Jack Dorsey proposed this SMS basedplatform to Odeo's co-founder Evan Williams. Evan, andhis co-founder Biz Stone by extension, gave Jack thego-ahead to spend more time on the project anddevelop it further.In its early days, Twitter was referred to as "twttr". Atthe time, a popular trend, sometimes to gain domainname advantage, was to drop vowels in the name oftheir companies and services. Software developer NoahGlass is credited with coming up with the original nametwttr as well as its final incarnation as Twitter. 9. How YouTube Got StartedYouTube was founded by Chad Hurley, Steve Chen,and Jawed Karim, who were all early employees ofPayPal. Prior to PayPal, Hurley studied design at IndianaUniversity of Pennsylvania. Chen and Karim studiedcomputer science together at the University of Illinois atUrbana-Champaign. YouTube's early headquarters weresituated above a pizzeria and Japanese restaurant in SanMateo, California. The domain name "YouTube.com" wasactivated on February 14, 2005, and the website wasdeveloped over the subsequent months. The creatorsoffered the public a preview of the site in May 2005, sixmonths before YouTube made its official debut.Like many technology startups, YouTube was started asan angel-funded enterprise from a makeshift office in agarage. In November 2005, venture firm Sequoia Capitalinvested an initial $3.5 million; additionally, Roelof Botha,partner of the firm and former CEO of PayPal, joined theYouTube board of directors. In April 2006, Sequoia and ArtisCapital Management put an additional $8 million into thecompany, which had experienced hugely popular growthwithin its first few months. The first YouTube video wastitled Me at the zoo, and shows co-founder Jawed Karim atthe San Diego Zoo. The video was uploaded on April 23,2005, and can still be viewed on the site. 10. How Pinterest Got StartedPinterest allows users to save images andcategorize them on different boards. They canfollow other users' boards if they have similartastes. The evolution of Pinterest is based on theshared interest of its users and relies on itsmembers to produce the content. The most popularcategories, as of March 2012, were home, arts andcrafts, style/fashion, and food.Development of Pinterest began in December 2009,and the site launched as a closed beta in March2010. The site proceeded to operate in invitation-onlyopen beta. Silbermann said he personallywrote to the site's first 5,000 users offering hispersonal phone number and even meeting withsome of its users. Nine months after the launchthe website had 10,000 users. Silbermann and afew programmers operated the site out of a smallapartment until the summer of 2011. 11. How Instagram Got StartedInstagram was created by Kevin Systrom and MikeKrieger, and launched in October 2010. Theservice rapidly gained popularity, with over 100million active users as of April 2012. Instagram isdistributed through the Apple App Store, GooglePlay, and Windows Phone Store. Support for theapp is available for iPhone, iPad, iPod Touch,and Android handsets, while third-partyInstagram apps are available for Blackberry10 and Nokia-Symbian Devices.The service was acquired by Facebook in April2012 for approximately $1 billion in cash andstock. In 2013, Instagram grew by 23%, whileFacebook, as the parent company, only grew by3%. The name "Instagram" is a portmanteau of"instant camera" and "telegram". 12. How Google Plus Got StartedGoogle launched the Google+ service as an invitation-only"field test" on June 28, 2011, but soon suspended earlyinvites due to an "insane demand" for new accounts. OnAugust 6, each Google+ member had 150 invitations to giveout until September 20, 2011, when Google+ opened toeveryone 18 years of age or older without the need for aninvitation. It was opened for a younger age group (13 yearsor older in US and most countries, 14 or older in SouthKorea and Spain, 16 or older in the Netherlands) on January26, 2012. Google+ is available as a website and on mobiledevices.Before the launch, Google referred to Google+ as GoogleCircles, a name alluding to its emphasis on organizingfriendship information. Google+ is considered thecompany's fourth foray into social networking followingGoogle Buzz (launched 2010, retired in 2011), GoogleFriend Connect (launched 2008, retired by March 1, 2012)and Orkut (launched in 2004, as of 2013 operated entirelyby subsidiary Google Brazil - to be retired in September2014). Sources such as The New York Times have declared itGoogle's biggest attempt to rival the social networkFacebook, which has over 1 billion users. 13. How To Be GreatIn Social Media 14. Use Hashtags, every social media site nowuses hashtags to find things easier 15. Reply on Twitter using @. Reply onFacebook by clicking their name. 16. Share! Re-tweet, share, re-pin, and more! 17. Comment on your friends or favoritebrands post, picture, or video! 18. Like your favorite post, picture, or video! 19. Use a scheduling app like Buffer, so youdont spend all day on social media. 20. What You Find OnMy Social Media 21. The Daily Weather Forecast 22. The Days Holidays 23. A Quote Of The Day 24. One Funny Picture 25. One Picture From Traffic Light Pixels 26. A Geek Alabama Best Of Article 27. Midday Lunch Song / Daily Music Video 28. Geek Story Of The Day / Daily Tech Story 29. One Picture From Traffic Light Pixels 30. A Geek Alabama Best Of Article 31. One Funny Picture 32. Dinner Watercooler / Three Interesting Stories 33. During the day, any new Geek Alabama articlesgoes up automatically when I click publish. 34. Also, I also talk about breaking news, sports,TV & Movies, Topics, and much more! 35. In ClosingIt takes time to grow on social media! Continue to postevery day, and you will gain followers in no time! 36. 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