Once you go facebook, you never go back.
One step backwards, and people start cheering, so why not make a step to the right? That is exactly what people like Mark Zuckerberg and the like (basically, creators of social media websites) decided to do. Instead of simply leaving texting as what it is, they decided to make websites on which people can go on to post about what they are thinking about, what they did today, alerting thousands of people that they ate a burrito or went to the bathroom, instead of texting or calling each individual in particular, and explaining to them how the experience went. This obviously became extremely popular amongst people of every age. However none of those things started out on cell phones, you could only access them from Internet. Now however, the only social media (excluding tumbler) that is worth mentioning is Facebook, because while people use Twitter and Myspace, the numbers for the two are a lot smaller then those for facebook. Facebook originated in 2004, and was getting bigger from then till now, since, as it was said before, people could communicate information to a lot of people over a short period of time. After it was created, in the matter of a couple of years a facebook button appeared on every phone that was being bought. And that is why people who create phones and the like have really fat wallets.