Social Networking Sites

Visiting sites like Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and LinkedIn shows me that each one has its own specialty. 

Facebook seems like the type of social networking site for friends and family. It is mainly comprised of close contacts and your home screen or news-feed is made of posts shared or made by friends or groups that you’re in. There is a way to connect yourself to everything you see. 

Instagram is a visual storytelling site. It doesn’t allow the user to submit paragraph like content without accompanying it with a picture. On Instagram, you can follow anyone you like and don’t necessarily have to know them. You can profit off of Instagram if you have enough followers. It’s possible to restrict who can see what you post by turning yourself on private mode. Instagram seems like the right site for those who are more extroverted and ready to share moments of their life in photos. 

Twitter is like a combination of Facebook and a blog. It holds the content of a blog, where you express your thoughts and opinions but only to those you follow and those who follow you. In a sense, it is like Facebook’s close contacts. The main difference between Twitter and a blog is that anyone can see a blog, but someone would have to have a connection or explicitly search you up to see your tweets. It’s sort of like a closed circle of ideas. 

LinkedIn is the most professional of the four. It includes mostly professional, positive, and inspirational posts. On LinkedIn, your connections are people you work with or people you want to get to know. In this way, LinkedIn is a site of opportunity, to expand your network and perhaps get a job. LinkedIn is the site you would probably first check, out of the four, for company updates and company news.