She began dating Mike Comrie, a Canadian NHL player (so he knows something about rebounds) and appeared on Maxim. Like YouTube, 2007 Hilary Duff was a woman out to prove she could be a grown up. YouTube acquired by Google: November 13, 2007 Plus she proved she was a true ~*celeb*~ by releasing a perfume, named With Love…Hilary Duff, in conjunction with her latest single. Our girl Hil had a hard 2006: she broke up with Madden and starred in Materials Girls with the incomparable Haylie Duff. Hilary in 2005 was a formidably buzzing celebrity she starred in The Perfect Man and Cheaper by the Dozen 2, hosted MTV’s Teen Choice Awards, and released another album entitled Most Wanted. Oh, yeah and she started dating Joel Madden. Meanwhile, 2004 saw Hilary filming her last episode of Disney Channel’s Lizzie McGuire, releasing her pop album Hilary Duff, launching her clothing line Stuff by Hilary Duff, and starring in A Cinderella Story. Here is the comprehensive timeline of social media, as told in time-specific gifs of Hilary Duff’s life–which is exactly the resource you never knew you needed.

More often than not, they’ve been quietly stewing and gaining momentum for years before barreling into the public eye as a phenomenon.Įven as they dabble in irrelevance (dare I say obscurity?), they always return to triumph with a victorious innovation or completed milestone. What always strikes me is how quickly it seems these platform juggernauts come to popularity.

Both technologically dynamic and socially frivolous, social media platforms tread a fascinating/terrifying balance–a tenuous tightrope between being old enough to matter and young enough to matter.

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