Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and Snapchat are all similar platforms because you can share and express your thoughts and feelings on the platforms. These websites make it easier to communicate with your peers, friends, long-distance friends, partners and also family. You are able to feel connected with each other through similar interests and background. As you scroll through your newsfeed, you come across shared posts/videos and also memes. You can direct message a person, or in other words, message the person privately.
Though, these social medias do have their
differences. In terms of sharing and expressing, Instagram is limited from
posting statuses. Thus, you are able to share your pictures and post a caption.
Instagram allows you to post videos, share others' videos and post
stories. For Instagram, to be friends on the application, you are to
follow one another. You don’t have to follow a person in order to see their
photos and videos unless their profile is private. If someone follows you and
you don’t want them to, I don’t think there is an option to remove their
follow. But for Facebook, you have more control over everything. You have the
option to accept or decline a person’s request. On Facebook, you also have the
choice to customize each of your post. For instance, you can make it available
to your friends and private it for your family.
Twitter is another media to express yourself. It
has similar features such as liking, posting statuses/pictures/videos. On twitter,
you are able to retweet. Hashtag on twitter is a must. Placing the hashtag
symbol (#) before a word allows the word to be categorized. Instagram and
Twitter both use the term ‘followers’. Both medias show verified people as in celebrities or
famous/popular people.
Snapchat is a popular social media. Snapchat is
for you to send an image of anything and the picture gets erased in a matter of
seconds. You are able to set how many seconds you want others to view your picture
or video. (10 seconds or no limit) It is a bit more difficult to have a
conversation on Snapchat because once you open the chat and reply, the last
response is gone. It is easy to forget what you or they were saying. Snapchat is
also known for their popular, cute, and funny filters. Many people use their
filters for fun and take pictures.
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