The document discusses several major social media platforms, including their origins and key features. It describes how Facebook was founded by Mark Zuckerberg and others at Harvard in 2004. It also outlines how Twitter allows users to send and read short messages and was founded in 2006 in San Francisco. Additionally, it mentions that LinkedIn is a professional networking platform founded in 2003, while Pinterest and Google+ are visual discovery and social networking tools respectively. YouTube and Tumblr are also briefly characterized as video and microblogging sites.