There’s a silly link going around to see if someone was on Twitter before Oprah. Seeing the link today, I started doing something I’ve thought about for a while. I did a quick audit of some of the social sites I belong to and referenced when I joined. I also looked at some of my other social media activity in the process. It was surprisingly hard to find some of the information. For example, I can’t seem to find my Facebook join date. The oldest related date I could find was the oldest profile pic I still have up. Anyway, here’s the dirt:
| Where | When | Reference Method |
|---|---|---|
| 7/5/2007 | Oldest Profile Pic | |
| 6/19/2007 | First Tweet | |
| Tribe | 2/21/2007 | Profile Join Date |
| YouTube | 12/11/2006 | Profile Join Date |
| Flickr | 10/4/2005 | Oldest Image Online |
| 8/3/2005 | Profile Join Date | |
| MySpace | 9/17/2004 | Profile Join Date |
| Blogging | 1/26/2004 | Oldest post online (once I started calling it blogging). |
| MeetUp | 1/20/2004 | Profile Join Date |
| Live Journal | 12/30/2003 | Profile Join Date |
| Usenet | 9/17/1996 | Oldest post I found on google groups. |
| Blogging | 8/8/1996 | Oldest post still online (didn’t call it a blog then). |
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