Social Networking Sites

Social Networking Sites

Facebook - Facebook's features include all of the benefits of the other 3 plus more. It is the most complete social media platform of the 4. Wether you use a personal account or a business one,  
the features are easy to use and the interface is simple and elegant. You can use it to promote a business, share information, post videos and pictures, and anything else you can think of. 

Twitter - Twitter is the least practical of the 4 social media platforms. With the character restriction, I feel like this social networking site hinders the user from expressing themselves fully. It does allow you to post videos, images and gifs. It also allows you to create a poll which is a pretty unique feature.

Instagram - Instagram is an image sharing social network. It allows you to take and post images and videos of up to a minute long. It has a variety of filter options for the content you upload. It has options to tag locations to let your followers know where the images or videos were taken. For it's intended function, I think this social network is a successful one.

Youtube - Youtube is a social network where users can upload videos and blogs. Users can comment on each others videos and create discussions on the comments section. The option to create playlists and save videos for later watching is useful. It is the most successful video sharing network in the world and one of my favorite websites.

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