Did you know that the first recognizable social media site, Six Degrees, was created in 1997. It enabled users to upload a profile and make friends with other users.
Since then social media began to explode in popularity. Sites like MySpace and LinkedIn gained prominence in the early 2000s, and sites like Photobucket and Flickr facilitated online photo sharing. YouTube came out in 2005, creating an entirely new way for people to communicate and share with each other across great distances. By 2006, Facebook and Twitter both became available to users throughout the world. Social media started to dominate the modern world started to change minds, also proven to be effective platforms for marketing. Over the years, social media has grown and even I can't keep up with all the sites.
Below I listed top 10 popular social media sites that is popular that some of you might be interested in.
1. Facebook
A free social networking website that allows registered users to create profiles, upload photos and video, send messages and keep in touch with friends, family and colleagues. Facebook has the largest number of users.
2. Twitter
A free social networking microblogging service that allows registered members to broadcast short posts. This site has revolutionized social media. Approximately 81 percent of Twitter’s advertising revenue comes from mobile.
3. LinkedIn
A social networking site designed specifically for the business community. The goal of the site is to allow registered members to establish and document networks of people they know and trust professionally. It has over 332 million users.
4. Google +
A social network that builds off of your Google Account.This site has 300 million monthly active users and is used for relationship marketing. It has over a 53 percent positive interaction between Google+ users and brands.
5. YouTube
A video sharing service that allows users to watch videos posted by other users and upload videos of their own. Currently, there are 6 billion hours of video watched on YouTube per month and 1 billion videos watched over mobile phones per day.
6. Pinerest
Pinterest marketing is another social media tool helping `brands to grow rapidly. There are over 70 million users. Pinterest is the website where you have a "inboard" that allows you to post ideas that you want to remember and then share them with your friends.
7. Instagram
Online photo sharing social web service that lets you share your life with friends through a series of pictures and videos captured with a mobile device.There are more than 300 million monthly active users on Instagram, of which 75 million are daily active users.
8. Tumblr
Social networking website that allows registered users to post multimedia content to their own customizable blogs. Is used for sharing photos, videos, audio, quotes, text or anything that you’d like to market. It has more than 420 million users and 217 million blogs created, making it a favorite.
9.Flickr
This image and video hosting social network has over 3.5 million images uploaded daily by users and offers massive online photo storage.You can share and host hundreds of your own pictures without paying a dime.
10.Reddit
An entertainment, social news networking service, and news website where registered community members can submit content, such as text posts or direct links, making it essentially an online bulletin board system.It has 174 million monthly unique visitor.
There it is the top 10 most popular sits as of now and the list will change soon as something new social media sit is developed. I personally stay on Facebook and Instagram I love posting pictures interacting with family and friends.Pinerest I use if I want to look up a recipe or new fashion ideas. And lets not forget Youtube I love youtube since you can find any video that you want to watch from movie, music, news, make up tutorials,and everything else you can think of.Hope I could helped some of you with deciding on social media you like to join or explore.
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