Tuesday, June 21, 2016

Social Networking Sites

Facebook is one of the social networking site that I am very familiar with. This platform is one of the most successful social networking site that's still popular. It allows users to share anything they wish and connect with friends and families. I found that website along with its phone application to be very organized and easy to navigate. Everything can be reached within a touch of a button; without any major redirection. I love the news feed function as it updates instantaneous which allows you to keep in touch with the current news of your friends. One of the major advantage to Facebook is that it does not allow you to edit its page like Xanga or Myspace, which keeps the page very clean and it’s not messy. Facebook is one of my favorite social media to use and I'm not surprise that it last longer than most social media websites ever created.

Second to Facebook is Instagram. Instagram allows the user to upload and view photos and videos at a touch of a button. The design of Instagram is simplistic and it’s very pleasing to the eye. One simply choose a picture and uploads it and people around the world can see it when you use hashtags (#). Instagram definitely a great entertainment if you are looking to scroll through pictures of different people and it sparks a lot of DIY ideas and it also allows the users to see what other are capturing with their camera. One major plus of Instagram is that the filter features, it allows the uploader to edit photos with the lighting of their choice which enhances their photo.

The third is LinkedIn, similar to Facebook, LinkedIn allows the user to connect with people in a more professional setting. Although it can be sociable, people in LinkedIn are more sophisticated and the overall setting of the page is towards professionalism. LinkedIn is great if you are looking to know someone professionally, it allows you to see their work ethics, current employments, career goals and the type of technical skills that they have if you are looking to employ someone. LinkedIn is definitely a great tool for me to look for someone if I need to connect with someone professionally and looking for someone with the right skills to help me do the job. 

Last, I was reintroduced to Twitter in this class. I tried using Twitter a year or two ago and I didn't really like the feel of the site and found it hard to use. At first view of the platform, it seems like a news site where people upload their message quickly and short as its limited based on 140 characters. Later looking deeper into this social media website, it allows people to talk to each other public and allows other to see as well, to me it feels like this is a baby version of Facebook since Facebook also allow people to update status and have people comment on it, whereas this is allows people to update news and people retweet it.

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