Social Networking Sites

As a daily social networking site user, all platforms are unique in their own although provide similar services. Four sites that are popular today are facebook, twitter, instagram and snapchat.  Starting with facebook, when you first log in, you see a feed with facebook stories that your "friends" post followed by posts that they post on the feed that automatically appear on your news feed page. These include pictures, videos, and writing posts. Facebook also suggests post based on previous videos you have clicked on. Memories are shared as well as trending news or posts pop up on your feed. Other tabs include facebook watch, notifications, marketplace and facebook groups. Facebook has more of an older crowd nowadays compared to other social networking sites. Similarly, when you first open up twitter, tweets and tweets retweeted as wells as replies to tweets made by the people you follow show on your feed. The content on twitter differs from that on facebook in the way that twitter users are more open and, I think, humorous. I think it's because majority of twitter users are of younger age. Tabs on twitter include a search page where you can search for specific topics you want to read about, notifications tab, and direct messages tab where you can communicate with other tweeters. Instagram, on the other hand, focuses more on the use of pictures. All instagram posts are images. People can like and comment on people's post while sharing, in visual representation, what they want instagram users to know. Scrolling on Instagram becomes non-stop because there are an infinite amount of posts. Instagram also has stories where people can post videos and pictures only people who click on it will be able to view. Instagram also introduced instagram live where people can go live and broadcast real-time video of themselves or whatever on the app. A big thing on instagram is followers. People can follow you and you can follow them back making every post of theirs appear on your feed automatically. Last but not least, snapchat is quite different from all these sites. Snapchat is mostly used to send "snaps" which are pictures or videos that go away after the person(s) you sent it to opens it. Snapchat is also like texting because you can also communicate with other through words. Snapchat's big thing is also snapchat stories. All the people you have friended on snapchat and have accepted you post pictures or videos that they want everyone who has added them to see. There are filters you can use that are also popular on snapchat. Snapchat users, majority, are younger than users of other sites.