Blog: Social networking sites

I visited and made an account on: Facebook, Twitter, reddit, and Instagram.
As an avid user of all four, I can definitely say that the reason these are all mainstream contemporary platforms are that they each have their own intended uses and do not overlap too much with other popular social networking sites.

For example - primary uses of Facebook have evolved from just simple status updates (what Twitter is known for) to being used for tagging others in viral videos and posts and most notably, Facebook Messenger, which is arguably one of the greatest takeovers in instant messaging that is able to compete with WeChat, Line, and iMessage.

As previously noted, Twitter prides itself on its character-limited status updates, which allows for more condensed and efficient status posting for both the contributor and user. It allows for a message to be delivered to the top of a user's followers' "new tweets" update every time they refresh or re-open the app. This systematic programming design enables those with large follower-counts to have their tweets "pushed" to the top of everyone's virtual list.

Instagram is solely for <30s videos and creating that online portfolio that we all aspire to make for ourselves to better our own image. In my opinion, it is one of the best and worst things to happen to a social media user: we're able to generate what we want the world to see us as, and we hold ourselves to that standard of doing things with the intention of sharing our experiences with the world. More disconnected in real life although we remain more connected digitally.

reddit will remain as one of the largest user-generated content platforms and arguably my favorite. It allows for so many different functions which are then categorized by special interests. To sum it up, it is a large forum comprised of many smaller forums - allowing for people with different interests to utilize the same platform & be a part of multiple different communities while still having the same privileges of contributing, reading, and commenting.