There are many social networking sites available for people all over the world. The ones that I mainly use are Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and Tumblr. Despite them all being similar because it is a way to communicate with a large amount of people, there are major differences between them.
To start off, let’s talk about Facebook, which has been around longer than some freshman in high school. The impression that it gives off is that it is a very standard social networking site. You can do just about anything on there. You can share videos, pictures, articles, very long posts or very short posts all on this one site. Of course it is also harder to keep all your information private. It seems like people rely on this platform for a lot of their news coverage
On the other hand, Instagram makes it simple to keep your information private. The only thing public to all is your profile picture and your biography. Besides that, no one will see the pictures you post unless you specifically allow them to follow you. That being said, instagram is mainly just for posting pictures and videos and captioning them. From what I have seen, it is mostly for people who want to share posts about themselves or of things they are passionate about.
Entering the Tumblr world it is basically just a blog for someone’s emotions and where creativity flows, but also some unorginiality. In my experience with Tumblr, it is easy to fall into many pits. You can find yourself posting a lot of sad and emotional stuff one day, and then a lot of artsy looking pictures the next, and find your way to the fanfiction pit. That last one is unavoidable sometimes and that is where you can experience how imaginative people can be. I feel like you can find out about things that people do not usually express about themselves in the real world. In my opinion it is because you can make yourself be more anonymous by not sharing personal information.
Lastly, there is twitter, where I have had the least experience with. It is a place for people to post quick thoughts due to the character limit with posts. Users can also post pictures, videos and articles if they desire to do so. Not knowing much about this site, I view it as a place where people can follow their favorite celebrities and people to keep updated on their lives and any pop culture news.
Hi Ellie, As a frequent user of Twitter, I can say people also use it to keep updated with the latest news. Twitter's trending page is a major component of it and most people like myself browse it on a daily basis.
ReplyDeleteHi Ellie,
ReplyDeleteJust like you, I use Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter the most. However, I am not familiar with Tumblr so I can't expand on that platform. But I definitely agree with all your points regarding the other three platforms. Facebook's biggest issue so far has been the protection of data among individuals, as seen from the huge data breach crisis they suffered from this year. What is weird is that Facebook owns Instagram, but yet we see, as you said, that Instagram is significantly better at protecting information. While both platforms do much of the same things, Facebook needs to take away some things they can do better from Instagram. With the widespread use of new media and the trend of globalization, we must do better at protecting information.