Social media platforms

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SOCIAL MEDIA PLATFORMS
A social platform also known as social media platforms is a web-based technology that enables
the development, deployment and management of social media solutions and services. It provides
the ability to create social media websites and services with complete social media network
functionality.
I. Social Network
a social network is a website that brings people together to talk, share ideas and interests, or make
new friends. This type of collaboration and sharing is known as social media. Unlike traditional media
that is typically created by no more than ten people, social media sites contain content created by
hundreds or even millions of different people. Below is a small list of some of the biggest social
networks used today.
Examples of social networks
1. Facebook ( https://www.facebook.com/ ) - The most popular social networking websites on the
Internet. Facebook is a popular destination for users to set up personal space and connect with
friends, share pictures, share movies, talk about what you're doing, etc.
2. Google+ (https://plus.google.com/) - The latest social networking service from Google.
3. LinkedIn ( https://www.linkedin.com/ ) - One of the best if not the best locations to connect with
current and past co-workers and potentially future employers.
4. MySpace ( https://myspace.com/ ) - Once one of the most popular social networks and viewed
website on the Internet. See the MySpace definition for further information about this service.
5. StumbleUpon ( http://www.stumbleupon.com/ ) - Another very popular community of Internet
users who vote for web pages they like and dislike. StumbleUpon also allows users to create
their own personal pages of interesting sites they come across. See the StumbleUpon definition
for additional information about this service.
6. Yik Yak - Smartphone social network that connects users who are in close to each other.
II. Bookmarking: Social bookmarking websites are centralized online services which allow users to
store and share Internet bookmarks. Such sites typically offer a blend of social and organizational
tools, such as annotation, categorization, folksonomy-based tagging, social cataloging, commenting,
and interface with other kinds of services like citation management software and social networking
sites.
1. BibSonomy is a system for sharing bookmarks and lists of literature.
2. CiteULike is a web service which allows users to save and share citations to academic
papers.
3. Digg is a news aggregator with an editorially driven front page
4. Diigo is designed to bookmark web pages and highlight key points for reference. Free.
5. Google Bookmarks: Bookmarking service by Google
6. Pearltrees: Collaborative bookmark exploration and curation tool organized and presented like
a mind map.
7. Pinboard can automatically import your links and tweets from a number of outside services.
The archive feature saves a local copy of everything you bookmark in case the original page

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goes offline, and offers full-text search. Currently 11 USD annual fee, with an optional 25 USD
fee for archiving.
8. Pinterest is a web and mobile application company that offers a visual discovery, collection,
sharing, and storage tool.
9. Pocket: Bookmarking articles and links.
10.Reddit: Users submit content in the form of either a link or a text ("self") post. Links and
content can be voted on.
11.SiteBar is free online bookmarking manager open source software, mainly runs with help of
authors donations.
12.StumbleUpon is a discovery engine that finds and recommends web content to its users.
13.We Heart : It is an image-based social network for inspiring images
14.Plurk is a free social networking and micro-blogging service that allows users to send updates
(otherwise known as plurks) through short messages or links, which can be up to 210 text
characters in length (previously
III. Social News
A social news website is an Internet website that features user-posted stories. Such stories are
ranked based on popularity, as voted on by other users of the site or by website administrators. Users
typically comment online on the news posts and these comments may also be ranked in popularity.
Since their emergence with the birth of Web 2.0, social news sites have been used to link many types
of information, including news, humor, support, and discussion.
1. Fark, which started in 1997, features news on any topic. On Fark, users can submit articles to
the administrators of the site. Each day, these administrators pick out 50 articles to display on
the front page.
2. Slashdot, started in 1997, was one of the first social news websites. It focuses mainly on
science and technology-related news. Users can submit stories and the editors pick out the best
stories each day for the front page. Users can then post comments on the stories.
3. Digg, started in December 2004, introduced the voting system. This system allows users to
"digg" or "bury" articles. "Digging" is the equivalent of voting positively, so that popular articles
are displayed first. "Burying" does not lower an article's score.
4. Newsvine, started in March 2006, is a social news website mostly focused on politics, both
international and domestic. The Newsvine home page allows users to customize "seeds" and
story feeds.
5. Voat, launched in April 2014, is also a social news website and is very similar to Reddit visually
and functionally.
6. Lumn.io, which started in 2017, is a social news website where users can submit stories.
Lumn.io incorporates a social networking facet where users can create an account, then when
they share stories, they can then be given Lumn (upvoting), which is attributed to the users
account.
IV. Media Sharing/Video Sharing

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Media sharing sites allow you to upload your photos, videos and audio to a website that can be
accessed from anywhere in the world. You can then share that media with the world or just a select
group of friends. Youtube is a popular example of Media Sharing.
V. Microblogging is a combination of blogging and instant messaging that allows users to create
short messages to be posted and shared with an audience online. Social platforms like Twitter have
become extremely popular forms of this new type of blogging, especially on the mobile web.
1. Twitter is one of the oldest and most well-known social platforms to be put under the
"microblogging" category. While the 280-character limit still exists today, you can now also share
videos, articles links, photos, GIFs, sound clips, and more through Twitter Cards in addition to
regular text.
2. Tumblr takes inspiration from Twitter but has fewer limitations and more features. You can
certainly post a lengthy blog post if you want, but most users enjoy posting lots and lots of
individual posts of visual content like photosets and GIFs.
3. Instagram is like a photo journal for wherever you go. Rather than uploading multiple photos to
an album the way we used to do via the desktop web on Facebook or Flickr, Instagram lets you
post one photo at a time to show where you are and what you're doing.
VI. Blogs and Forums
1. Forums are like social mixers, where everyone is at equal level, milling about and discussing
with others. These many to many communication tools allow anyone to start a topic and
anyone to respond to one. Members are often at equal level, and content is usually segmented
by topic. (rather than by people). Blogs are like a keynote speech where the speaker
(blogger) is in control of the discussion, but allows questions and comments from the
audience. Blogs are journals often authored by one individual, and sometimes teams. Popular
example of this social media platform is Blogger and WordPress
VII. Photo Sharing: Publishing a user's digital photos, enabling the user to share photos with others
either publicly or privately. Examples are Examples: Instagram, Flickr, Snapchat and Pinterest