Social Networking Sites

Facebook. Twitter. Instagram. LinkedIn.

Facebook is a social networking site that allows individuals to connect with their friends, family, and acquaintances constantly and instantly. This can be done through wall posts, messages, games, group pages, event pages, and also the ability to seamlessly share links, videos, and much more on their news-feeds. Most users of Facebook are constantly checking their timeline updates from friends to see what's going on and get into discussions through posts and comments. It is a great way to stay connected with those who matter to you.

Twitter is very convenient and much more simple than Facebook. Although Twitter has a 140 character count, it still enables individuals to get their message out. Depending on your privacy settings, your "followers," or people, can read your tweets. Twitter's user-interface is clean and simple and allows you to get instant updates from people you follow. There isn't much beyond writing updates, sharing links, picture, and videos. Twitter is also utilized to promote events and pretty much anything wit hashtags and trending tweets.

LinkedIn is very iconic for being a great professional social networking site that allows people to connect with one another and share their professional information. I personally do not use LinkedIn as often as my colleagues but it is a great platform to find potential jobs as well as candidates for a job. On their site, you can share links, articles, write recommendations, and also endorse people for skills. You can also upload your resume for professionals to review.

Instagram is similar to Twitter, however, it focuses on pictures and videos (15 second clips). Instagram is an app based social networking platform that recently adopted their website interface. However, you can only upload your images/videos through the app. The app provides editing tools and filters for users to perfect their photos before sharing it on their page and news-feed for friends to view. The application also offers hashtags and trending images/topics. It is pretty easy on the eyes and instant. It truly shows that "a picture is worth a thousand words."

All these social networking sites provide its users with easy ways to connect and share things with their friends and families. It's no wonder people are constantly checking their social networks. All in all, these are great tools for our social life and community.