Week 1 - Which Social Media is used for business and which for personal use

In today's Social Media landscape there is a plethora of sites that one can go to promote either yourself or a business.  To be able to reach more and more people whether they're around the corner or around the world, Social Media lends a powerful voice for consumers and companies to do just that for far less compared to a not too distant past.

Depending on what they offer, Social Media sites may be just for personal or business use.  However the lines have definitely crossed and both uses are served by the same Social Media website.

Here's a short list of sites with personal and business use and some with both type of uses. Per Wikipedia, additional information when the site launched, type of service offered and a little tidbit of information on each one.

Bus	Pers	Site	Launched	Description	Tidbits
	x	Classmates	??? 1995	Meet up with old schoolmates	Website name changed to Memory Lane
	x	Match.com	??? 1995	Online dating service	Started off as a classified sys. for newspapers
	x	Eharmony	Aug 2000	Online dating service	Avg of 542 eHarmony marraiges daily (8/2010)
x		LinkedIn	Dec 2002	Rolodex on steroids  for prof.	In 200+ countries, avail. in 20 languages
x	x	Myspace	??? 2003	Social networking service	Co-owner: Justin Timberlake
x	x	FaceBook	Feb 2004	Social networking service	1.23 billion active users-12/2013
x	x	Flickr	Feb 2004	Photo and video hosting svc	Owned by Yahoo
x	x	YouTube	Feb 2005	Video hosting service	Started by 3 former PayPal employees
x		Twitter	Mar 2006	Networking svc & microblogging.	Owns Vine, a video hosting service
x	x	Tumblr	Feb 2007	Microblogging, social networking	Yahoo paid 1.1 billion in cash in May 2013
x	x	Pinterest	Mar 2010	Visual discovery tool	2010, NY based mag declined offer to buy.
	x	Instagram	Oct 2010	Photo/video sharing	Owned by Facebook
x	x	Google+	Jun 2011	Social networking service	2nd behind Facebook in unique visitors