Introducing Social Networking
Recently, more and more new social networking tools are emerging, including mobile apps. Some have rapidly earned fame while some are falling. Let’s introduce the most popular modern social networking.
General Social Media
Facebook
is a social utility that connects people with friends and others who work, study and live around them. People use Facebook to keep up with friends, upload an unlimited number of photos, post links and videos, and learn more about the people they meet. source: www.facebook.com
YouTube
Founded in February 2005, YouTube allows billions of people to discover, watch and share originally-created videos. YouTube provides a forum for people to connect, inform, and inspire others across the globe and acts as a distribution platform for original content creators and advertisers large and small. source: www.youtube.com/yt/about/
Twitter
Twitter is a service for friends, family, and co-workers to communicate and stay connected through the exchange of quick, frequent messages. People write short updates, often called “Tweets” of 140 characters or fewer. These messages are posted to your profile, sent to your followers, and are searchable on Twitter search.
source: https://support.twitter.com/forums/10711/entries/13920
Pinterest
A content-sharing service that allows members to “pin” images, videos and other objects to their pinboard. Also includes standard social networking features.
source: http:// www.pinterest.com
LinkedIn
the world’s largest professional network with 225 million members in over 200 countries and territories around the globe. When you join LinkedIn, you “get access to people, jobs, news, updates, and insights that help you be great at what you do.
source: http://www.linkedin.com/about-u
WordPress
WordPress started in 2003 with a single bit of code to enhance the typography of everyday writing and with fewer users than you can count on your fingers and toes. Since then it has grown to be the largest self-hosted blogging tool in the world, used on millions of sites and seen by tens of millions of people every day
source: http://wordpress.org/about/
Skype
Skype is for doing things together, whenever you’re apart. Skype’s text, voice and video make it simple to share experiences with the people that matter to you, wherever they are. You can use Skype on whatever works best for you – on your phone or computer or a TV with Skype on .source: http://about.skype.com/
Flickr
Flickr is the best way to store, sort, search and share your photos online. Flickr helps you organize that huge mass of photos you have and offers a way for you and your friends and family to tell stories about them.
source: http://www.flickr.com/help/general/#1
Imgur
Imgur is used to share photos with social networks and online communities and has the funniest “pictures from all over the Internet.
source: http://www. imgur.com
Instagram
Instagram is a fun and quirky way to share your life with friends through a series of pictures. Snap a photo with your mobile phone, then choose a filter to transform the image into a memory to keep around forever. We’re building Instagram to allow you to experience moments in your friends’ lives through pictures as they happen. We imagine a world more connected through photos
source: http://instagram.com/about/faq/
Reddit
User-generated news links. Votes promote stories to the front page.
reddit is open source. community members are constantly tinkering and contributing features, bug fixes, and translations back to the site.
source:http://www.reddit.com/
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