Social Networking Sites

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Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, and Pinterest  

In today’s society relies more and more on technology, social media or network such as Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, and Instagram. Day by day they are becoming a part of our daily lives. This platforms offer us many services such as communicating with others and reading about current events are now very convenient.

Facebook is one of the popular platform, not only to connect with people but also for business use as well. It is a social oriented website where users can talk about almost anything. Facebook offers the most features out of the four network services. It provides features like you can share photos, instant message, share posts, fan pages, applications, and much more. Facebook also give users option of more privacy setting, from a visible profile to who can view what. You can set particular posts and pictures as private, or share it to particular groups.

On the other hand LinkedIn is more likely designed for specifically for formal connections. In other words, you do not have a conversation about where you went last weekend or go on live video. LinkedIn does not allows to have a photo sharing option and is only focused on company profiles, individual, and connections. LinkedIn is primarily focused on job seekers and recruitment since it is a professional social network.

Twitter is also a social networking somewhat related to Facebook. But unlike Facebook it is micro-blogging service that allows users to post messages within 140 character also known as "tweets." Twitter is a platform that allows short, simple posts and comments. Twitter is more for users to follow people and topics that are important to them. The 140-character might not be a good thing, it can even cause frustration because not every important point can posted in limit of 140 characters. On the bright side twitter has recently announced features such as form group chats and even posting videos.

Pinterest is little different from other social networking site that are mention above.  Pinterest is a like online pin board which is mostly for collecting photographic pieces of multimedia. Often mages are shared on Pinterest, where users can create as many pin boards as they want, and that’s great for organization. For instance, if user like collecting pictures of birds, they can create a board and name it “Birds.” On the other hand, if they also like collecting flowers, one can also create another board and label it “flowers.” Somewhat like other social networks Pinterest also allows users to interact with other users through liking, commenting, and repining each other’s post.

Social networking changed our life so much. Our life became more convenient and easy because social networking is a very useful tool for us in 21st century, it could help us to improve our life. I can’t think of today’s generation without social network. Life would be very complicated since we are evolving with time and technology. However, we have to aware of how we use them. If we could use the social network smart way, we can take advantage of it and change our life.