Social Media: What’s out there for us to discover

Facebook

It is a social network website and a facility where customers can place comments, share pictures and links to a newscast or other attractive information on the Web. We can also play games, chat live, and even stream live videos of regular on important activities. The content we shared can be made visibly available, or it can be shared only with friends or family members. The main key features of Facebook are: allows us to keep a list of friends, privacy settings to modify who can view content on our profile. Allows us to upload pictures and create albums with them. We also have an interactive online chat and the capacity to comment on your friend's pages. Group pages, fan pages, and business pages are supported as well.  We cannot forget that we can stream video live using Facebook Live.

Instagram

First of all let me give you some initial data about Instagram: It was launched on October 6, 2010; It was also #1 in the App Store within 24 hours of launch; It holds the record as quickest to reach 1 million downloads (Dec 21, 2010) and exceeded 25 million users in early March 2012. So why is everyone clustering to Instagram? Well, it is very easy to get started with the app. We can take pictures of the app or use photographs that already exist in your camera roll. We can give our photos a label, which is useful and entertaining. Photos can be immediately shared, not only on Instagram, but also Facebook, Twitter, Flickr, Posterous, and Tumblr. One of the most appealing factors of Instagram is the fact that they have 11 distinctive filters you can use to up the attention of your photos. On Instagram, we ‘follow’ people. At the top of our profile, we will see the username, profile pic, number of photos uploaded, number of followers the account has, and how many we are following.  We can also find people we know or invite them to start following you.  I think what it makes Instagram so wildly popular is the photographs. We will find most of the most astonishing photographs you have ever seen on Instagram. But as they say, attractiveness is in the eye of the beholder. It’s very important to be considerate of who you follow because it’s all about who’s in your feed. I’ve posted countless pictures in the past months and I love looking through them to see where I’ve been and what I’ve done. My experience on Instagram has been tremendously pleasant. I’ve never seen bad comments on people’s pictures.  I had seen a lot of good intent in some of the posts. Such as raising money to help others, etc. I’ve talked to other users from around the globe. My favorite part of Instagram is to get a preview into the everyday lives of people and who live in totally different cultures than I. With this I found that we are so much alike. People around the world celebrate weddings, birthdays, value their children and pets, appreciate a lovely sunset or panorama, like to drink, eat and puts on some fancy clothes. Instagram it is definitely a keeper.

Pinterest

Pinterest is a social media platform that lets us to visually allocate, and learn new ideas by posting images or videos to our own or other people boards. Operating graphics orientation, the social network is well dedicated to the idea of a person's lifestyle, permitting us to share our tastes and interests with others; as well as discovering those of compatible people. The goal is to link everyone in the world over the stuff we find stimulating. As with most other social networks, users can perform standard social networking functions such as following the boards of their friends, liking and commenting on other users' pins, re-pinning content to their own boards, sharing others people pins on Facebook, Twitter or via email, and even inserting individual pins on their website or blog page. Pinterest saw amazing expansion in 2013. According to the study, this was because 80% of Pinterest users were women. This can be because, Pinterest appeared to have been started with interests in the home decoration, cooking, fashion, gardening, and other interest to women. Remarkably, Pinterest is now the fastest-growing platform for online content sharing. I use it every day for school projects for my kids and with manual ideas to do with them. Small businesses can exploit on the Pinterest outpouring to advertise their products. Pinning pictures of staffs could also help clienteles identify with the people who work at the company and putting a face to a label. This can help on how customers will trust what they are trying to sell. Small business owners can also help enable chats about their brands online by including "share" buttons to their websites. Pinterest like any other social media networks can help generate brand consciousness and perhaps enable website suggestions.

In conclusion, there's so much more out there for us to play and navigate on social media. if we have the opportunity, let's have some good time visualizing what is out there for us to enjoy.