The Life And Death Of Social Networks In One Chart

TradingPanda · March 30, 2018, 6:48am

The graph show search interest on Google, based on data from Google Trends.

The shown plots are based on a moving average of 6 months to reduce noise.

Source: Reddit

tommor · March 30, 2018, 9:32am

Gosh. Missed out on all of these.

TradingPanda · April 6, 2018, 11:49am

Never even heard of ICQ.

eddieb · April 6, 2018, 11:51am

I use WeChat, so much better

tommor · April 6, 2018, 12:07pm

I don’t have any friends so I don’ t need to use social networks.

eddieb · April 6, 2018, 3:40pm

Girzer · April 27, 2018, 5:57am

Where’s Skype? It replaced ICQ back in the day, because it looked better and was more functional overall. Skype allowed to call other users, which was especially cool.