Social Media | Find Your Friends | S51-E1

American Innovations

Wondery

Steven Johnson, History, Kids & Family, Education For Kids, Science

4.6 • 4.1K Ratings

🗓️ 12 August 2021

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

Today social media is such a dominant part of our daily lives, it's hard to believe that only 20 years ago, it didn’t exist. Then a newly single tech entrepreneur named Jonathan Abrams wondered: What if you could use the internet to expand your network of real-life friends? His simple idea became Friendster, the first social media site, which would change not only how people interact online, but the very nature of human connection and friendship.

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0:24.9	mobile app store today. It's December 17th, 2010. In a small town in Tunisia in North Africa,
0:40.8	Ali Boazizizi man's the cash register of his small supermarket. He hands a customer her change.
0:47.0	Thank you. Have a great day.
0:49.0	Minnie Market.
0:50.0	Ali, it's Salah. Have you heard?
0:53.0	Outside the government buildings someone set himself on fire.
0:56.0	I'm going there right now to see if I can help.
0:58.0	What? That's horrible. I'll meet you there.
1:01.0	Ali hangs up the phone and turns to an assistant.
1:04.2	Mind the store, I'll be right back.
1:08.2	The government building is just a few blocks from Ali's store.
1:11.6	As he runs there, he sees a small crowd gathering and a
1:14.8	column of black smoke rising into the air. Before he can get close enough to see the
1:19.1	source of the smoke, he bumps into the man who called him his uncle Salah
1:23.0	There are tears in his eyes no Ali don't look it's your cousin Mohammed
1:27.8	Mohammed are you sure a friend who was with him told me he's alive but very badly burned but why why would he do
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