Social Media
Twenty years ago, most people weren't even using their real names online. Ten years ago, Facebook was just a place where college students left notes on one another's walls.
Fast forward to the present, however, and people now share reams of data -- from images to videos to endless streams of tweets -- via social media platforms, for better or worse. That's a new source of vast amounts of data that needs to be stored, and which vendors and advertisers are eager to analyze.
Twenty years ago, most people weren't even using their real names online. Ten years ago, Facebook was just a place where college students left notes on one another's walls.
Fast forward to the present, however, and people now share reams of data — from images to videos to endless streams of tweets — via social media platforms, for better or worse. That's a new source of vast amounts of data that needs to be stored, and which vendors and advertisers are eager to analyze.
