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Blog: Social networking sites

I will comparing and sharing what I think about the following 4 social networking sites:  Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and Snapchat.

Facebook and Instagram are very similar. They are operated by the same company and have many of the same features. Facebook is a bit more dense in terms of content and not very phone friendly when you compare it to Instagram. Instagram was specifically developed for the phone and it can be seen from its layout. It is very user friendly and has a variety of features. 

Snapchat was originally meant to be for showing a picture or a video for just for 24 hours and it disappears afterwords. Snapchat also has the feature of streaks which is sending your friend a photo/video every single day. In the past few years both Instagram and Facebook introduced their own version of snapchat stories which provides tough competition for Snapchat as they have to improvise and improve their product constantly. Snapchat also has the feature of letting someone know if something they posted was screenshot. It adds an additional layer of security to the user.

Twitter main focus is on the idea of tweeting and the use of hashtags. At any moment you can see what topic is trending. If something controversial happens in politics chances are it will be trending the next moment on twitter. News travels the fastest on Twitter. You can easily figure out what is trending at certain time in the world through Twitter.

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