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How has social media changed your life?

by Marketplace Staff

Jan 31, 2019

Did you find friends? Crowdsource ideas? Build a business? Let us know.

The MySpace social networking homepage in 2007.

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RIP AIM, the instant messaging service that shaped our teenage lives

by Reema Khrais

Dec 15, 2017

AOL's service primed a generation for the 24-7 social media world we have today.

A Brazilian woman logs onto AOL at a cybercafe in Sao Paulo in 1999.

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