Skip to main content

Social Networking Sites

 

I have chosen Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, and LinkedIn for my comparison.

Today we cannot live without at least one social media account. Social media accounts help us connect, communicate, receive the latest news, and even look for new jobs.

Unlike other social media platforms, LinkedIn is designed for professional connections between individuals and companies. LinkedIn is specifically designed to connect people with on their professional career and expand their network in their filed. Hiring recruiters can reach individuals with base on their profile description. LinkedIn does not have features like sharing photos or videos and it only allows people on share written articles. LinkedIn is professional social media account focused on recruitment and career networking. Many employers require social media accounts like LinkedIn upon accepting hiring applications.

Facebook is mainly focused on connecting people throughout the world and help people make new friends. People can add personal photos, videos, locations, favorite topics and share posts, on their profile make it visible to their followers or any Facebook user. In recent years Facebook has expanded its platforms and has added many new features. Now people can buy/sell product on Facebook market, rent an apt or even purchase car. Facebook can also be used to campaign and discuss political matters and gather supporters. Unlike LinkedIn, Facebook allows the user to set up a privacy setting and share their information only with their friend’s list or anyone on the platform.

Twitter is mainly focused on limited character messaging and link sharing posts ad engaging in deep conversation with other users and retweeting. Twitter is very limited for sharing photos and videos and is not suitable for professional networking. Twitter users mainly post opinion-based messages based on the topics of the day and engage in a conversation with other users. Twitter is the most politically driven social media, and many politicians use the platform to send their message to their supporters and to send political messages to their opponent.

YouTube is a video sharing social media app and in recent years has become one the greatest video making platforms for people. YouTube allows users to see videos base on their area of interest. Unlike Twitter or Facebook users do not comment to each other much and do not engage in a long and fundamental discussion in the comment section.  In recent years YouTube started to provide incentives to video creators and (Youtubers ) which encouraged people in all backgrounds and professional fields to start creating and sharing videos on YouTube and make a career out of it. Today YouTubers create a large variety of videos which has made YouTube the most educational social media platform between all social media platforms.


Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Blog Social Networking

  Social networking is the use of Internet-based social media sites to stay connected with friends, family, colleagues, customers, or clients. Social networking can have a social purpose, a business purpose, or both, through sites such as Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, and Instagram, among others. Almost all companies use social networking websites and apps like LinkedIn to recruit people. According to social networking technology boosts job recruiting article” Social networking technology is absolutely the best thing to happen to recruiting”. [1] It is important for both induvial people and companies to understand the importance of social networking in the job market. Another way of using social networking is a company may use social networking to demonstrate its customer service level and enrich its relationships with consumers. For example, if a customer complains about a product or service on Twitter, the company may address the issue immediately, apologize, and take actio...
Post a Comment
Read more

Blog: Next New

  Technology is changing at a rapid pace. Just ten years ago it was unimaginable to see how much cellphones would change and how depended the world would become to the internet. I believe the next new media will be Artificial Intelligence integrated into every aspect of our daily lives. Our cellphones, computers, and even TVs and even smart homes are already programmed with AI. Nowadays new electric cars have internet connection and options like auto pilot which is AI base. We are becoming more and more connected to virtual world and giving AI systems more accesses over our lives. Voice assistance programs like SIRI and Alexa are another example of AI technology surrounding our daily lives. Voice assistance programs started with cellphones, however, today homes and cars can be controlled with voice assistance programs.
1 comment
Read more

The integration of Artificial Intelligence in Social Media platforms and its effects on privacy

  I chose to do my project on The integration of Artificial Intelligence in Social Media platforms and its effects on privacy because we live in the digital era and people around the world use their electronic devises to connect and communicate with other people via chat, voice calls or video calls and that creates the opportunity or companies or governments to collect users data without their consent. This issue has become more evident since the beginning of Covid-19 pandemic and the following lockdown of all offices and schools since the use of the internet has become inevitable. I intend to cover both positive and negative aspects of our online lives and believe it is important to point out that the internet has changed our lives and enabled many of us to work and attend school from the safety of our homes during this pandemic, however, it also has changed some people’s live and ruined their carriers in do to privacy issues and lose of private information online. Most people tod...
Post a Comment
Read more