Social Networking Sites

Facebook 

Long time ago, I used to think that Social networking is Facebook. After taking New Media class, I changed my mind: Facebook is social networking and it is only one of a bunch social networking sites. Facebook is one of the most popular social networking sites that used over the world and it actually changed my life. Back to about 7-8 years ago, when yahoo is in its time and 360 blog or blog plus are so popular, no one had ever thought that those sites would slowly disappear. But they did! And Facebook almost took over their place since then. Facebook is the combination of those sites where we can contact others, share our opinions or something interesting, interact with other people... Facebook brings everyone closer by making it easy to access and sending quick notifications to users. Now, you can even transfer money via Fb - what a revolution! Fb does has disadvantage, it makes your personal life becomes less personal as you thought. There is sometimes you can accidentally bring virus to your computer. However, the number of people start to use Fb probably never less then the number of people stop using it.

Twitter 

I figure out there are many differences between Twitter and FB. Twitter is also one of social networking sites. It allows users tweet with a maximum of 140 characters. That is the main different between the two sites. Besides that, even Twitter looks more simple than Fb, it's actually take my time to figure out how it works (by this, I mean FB is obviously easier to use for new users). The most comon thing you can see on Twitter is tweets while you can see a lot of pictures, videos on Facebook. The thing I like about Twitter is hasgtags which are the convergence of all the related topics which contain the same hashtag. For example, If you wanna find some information, conversation relate to our class, you can try hashtag #3810NET2.

Instagram 

Instagram is one of my favorite social networking sites. This site allows users to share photos (they offer you an app to edit your picture). Users likely to use pictures to tell their story. Nowadays, as most of teenagers are trying to stay away from Facebook because their parents are starting to use FB more, they most likely choose Instagram as a place to share their personal story. Instagram is a very personal place since they have a function for users to decide to set their accounts private or not. If you want to follow someone and they allow you to do so, then can see their Instagram.If not, there is no way you can see their information. This privacy function is the thing I like the most about Instagram. Instagram appears with a very simple template and easy to use function. Instagram-er also use Hashtag to converge their story the same way as Twitter and Facebook does. 

Youtube  

I personally think Youtube is a social networking site. Long time ago, Youtube is not listed in social networking site since it's just a place to share video. Nowadays, V-logger turns Youtube into a social netwroking site. According to Wikipedia, "V-log is a video blog or video log, usually shortened to vlog /ˈvlɒɡ/, is a form of blog for which the medium is video, and is a form of web television. Vlog entries often combine embedded video (or a video link) with supporting text, images, and other metadata". Nowadays, Youtube also adds more functions allow users to interact with other users by comment or like, .... Even Youtube havent had hashtag function yet. I believe it will update soon.