Social media – best way keep in touch with your friends and/or relatives, look for new acquaintances, exchange music, films, photographs. It's the end of two thousand and sixteen and now there are several hundred platforms intended for building social relations on the Internet. In this article we will look at some of the most popular ones in the world.
5 Tumblr
The number of users of the Tumblr microblog reaches two hundred and twenty million. This social network is very popular due to its simple interface, no restrictions on the content of posts and the ability to publish any images or videos. Registration is not required to view posts, but is required in case of publication. In many media, Tumblr is referred to as “ in the simplest way blog."
4 VKontakte
The most popular social network in the former Soviet Union, fourth in the world, according to SimilarWeb. In conversations it is most often referred to as VK. According to Wikipedia, there are about three hundred and eighty million accounts. Registration is free. A general social network with the ability to search for friends, read various public pages, listen to music, watch videos, etc.
3 Twitter
The microblogging network, but, unlike Tumblr, has limitations (it is possible to write posts only one hundred and forty characters long). About five hundred million people use Twitter around the world. Registration is required to use. According to statistics from market research company Pear Analytics, forty-one percent of “tweets” (the name of online posts) are small talk, thirty-eight are conversations, nine are retweets (repeated messages), only four percent are news, and the rest are self-promotion and spam.
2 Google+
In second place by the number of users – five hundred and forty million accounts. Registration is required. In announcing the network, Google assured that the emphasis will be on users, privacy and live communication. The work of a social network is based on so-called “circles”, thanks to which a person regulates his communication. Users create their own “circle” (for example, “Relatives”) and add there all the people who fit this category. There are similar details with blogs.
1 Facebook
According to all existing companies specializing in Internet marketing, Facebook is the most popular network in the world. The number of users reaches one billion and seven hundred million. This social network allows you to create your profile with a photo and a detailed profile. There are many ways to communicate with each other on Facebook, including chat, virtual winks, and a wall where you can leave messages for other users.
This article will discuss the most popular social networks in the world in 2019. Today information Technology occupy a dominant role in communication between people. Social Internet services help people of all ages and statuses make acquaintances, maintain contact with loved ones, conduct business relationships and simply while away time online. Among dozens of sites and instant messengers that are in demand in Russia and around the world, some resources deserve special attention.
The most popular social networks in the world
In total, the worldwide network has billions of users from all over the world. And social networks, in turn, unite them, providing an opportunity for communication. Of course, this accelerates the process of globalization: people with different countries begin to exchange experiences, communicate and learn from each other. It would seem so wonderful! However, some states are concerned about the impact of social networks on their citizens and some of them even completely block a particular service. As, for example, China did with Youtube and the Google service, or as Ukraine banned VKontakte and Odnoklassniki.
In addition to Internet communications, social networks have become an excellent platform for doing business and promoting your product or service to the masses. Think about it, millions of people registered on a social network are potential clients for an entrepreneur. Thus, the latter can create groups and advertise in other public pages and communities.
In addition to retail business, social networks also provide an opportunity to earn money for those who create interesting content, i.e. shares interesting articles, beautiful photos, fascinating videos and much more. Both benefit: the social network acquires a large number users, and the owners of thematic groups or channels - extra income on the Internet.
And now we propose to analyze the most popular social networks in the world separately, based on their focus and the opportunities that they can provide you.
Facebook is the world's largest social network
Facebook was founded in the mid-2000s by Harvard University student Mark Zuckerberg and his team. Starting this project as an experiment, the developers could not imagine that their brainchild would become a leader in the number of registered users. Thus, today the site’s value is estimated at $60 billion, which indicates the extremely high popularity of the service throughout the world.
The network allows people to exchange messages, create publications, attach audio and video, rate content with “Like” marks, listen to music, play various kinds of games and applications - the whole standard set. It is worth considering that the majority of the audience is represented by foreign citizens, although there are also plenty of our compatriots on Facebook, but Vkontakte has become more familiar to residents of the CIS.
To attract businessmen, Facebook has developed a built-in market that makes it possible to promote and sell their products. Therefore, if you want to develop your business online or simply increase sales, then on Facebook you will not be left without customers.
Instagram and Snapchat = a world of beautiful photos
the most popular social network among young people, actors, singers, models and simply people leading an active lifestyle who are not shy about showing off their lives. This is where the fashion for selfies, photographing beautiful food and landscapes came from.
Today, Insta (short for Instagram) is a fast-growing Internet platform that allows its users to publish photos and short videos (Vines), rate content, leave comments and communicate with each other. A special feature of the network is the publication of stories that are displayed in a separate block. Instagram is simply ideal for business, because here you can beautifully present and advertise your product or service.
Instagram got a younger brother in 2011 Snapchat is a service that is also rapidly gaining popularity. His distinctive feature consider it possible to publish only those photos and videos that were taken directly in real time using the application. In general, only current events.
YouTube is not just a video hosting service
Youtube You can’t just dryly call it a video hosting service. This is a storehouse of everything a person can do! It is impossible to count how many fascinating things are on this resource. The information here is presented in video format, therefore, due to its clarity and ease of perception, it is a great competitor to blogs, magazines and forums.
In addition, YouTube is a huge competitor to television. This happens due to the fact that the user is free to choose and watch what he himself wants and chooses, and not what, for example, is shown on federal channels for daily brainwashing. That's why everyone comes here. First of all, these are young people, but the older generation is also not a rare guest.
In addition to entertainment, Youtube has become for many a resource for free education, where you can find various trainings, courses, and master classes that develop skills and abilities. Here you can learn to cook, you can learn languages - in a word, everything from “how to build a house” to “how to cut your own hair.”
Youtube has become a means of earning money for millions of different people who create interesting content and thereby attract subscribers. This is realized through advertising, which the channel owner can optionally add to the video. Thus, the more interesting the content, the more subscribers, the more the vlogger earns.
SoundCloud as a music paradise
SoundCloud is a social network for true music lovers, which was created to distribute an unlimited number of songs of different genres and trends, which belong to performers from all over the world. There are various ratings that determine the hits of the present time.
Users choose the application due to the fact that they can find absolutely any songs here, and artists - due to the fact that they have the opportunity to sell these songs.
Messengers
Messengers are also actively used all over the world to communicate on the Internet. They are aimed exclusively at calls, quick exchange messages and video communication using the Internet. Today applications such as Skype, Telegram, whatsapp, Viber, imo, constitute huge competition mobile operators. After all, think about it, just recently, in order to make a call abroad, you had to pay several hundred rubles for a few minutes, but today through these messengers you can do it absolutely free.
The most popular social networks in Russia
In the Russian-language network space, the tastes of users are not much different from the rest of the world, but there are also “local” leaders in the world of social networks. The most popular social networks in Russia are mostly American and European resources, not counting Vkontakte.
VKontakte: the youth of the CIS are all there
In Russia, the analogue and main competitor that has surpassed Facebook in terms of the number of Russian-speaking users is the social network VKontakte. It is, in fact, a clone of the American resource Facebook, because... provides the same capabilities. However, one cannot fail to mention that the VKontakte network is much simpler to perceive and easier to navigate. We can say that it seems to be sharpened for the Russian eye.
A distinctive feature of the Russian network is the presence of pirated content in the form of a large amount of music and films, which attracts not only Russian audiences, but also foreign ones. The disadvantages include a lot of pornographic materials that are freely available. Although recently such content has been actively combated at the legislative level.
Odnoklassniki for people who remember the USSR firsthand
If young people in the CIS in most cases use VKontakte, then older Internet users prefer Odnoklassniki. Initially, the network was created as a search former classmates and comrades (yes, comrades, not colleagues!) in the service. Because Among young people, such an offer is in much less demand, and so it happened that Odnoklassniki became an Internet space for people who remember the USSR first-hand.
What can be attributed to the characteristic features of the Odnoklassniki social network:
- If you visit someone’s page, its owner will know about it. Those. showing curiosity on the quiet will not work.
- The news feed constantly displays some kind of trash that is not related to your interest, such as “Family recipe for pickling tomatoes and cucumbers”, “St. Theodosius of the Caucasus Day” or “Save this horseshoe for your wall for good luck”….
- You can see which photos your friends like. Those. you unwittingly look at personal photos of people you don’t even know.
And, despite this, this network is popular in Russia and has not lost its position for a long time.
Top social networks by popularity (survey)
As we wrote at the beginning of the article, I propose to conduct a small survey to determine the popularity of social networks among users of our resource. Purely theoretically, the results of this test can be considered as the degree of popularity of these social networks in Russia, because the lion’s share of users of our site are from the Russian Federation. The voting results will be considered as up-to-date as possible because this survey began very recently - at the end of 2018.
Social networks have become not only a new space for communication, but also a place for self-expression, work, shopping, searching necessary information and people. You can learn a lot about a person from a person’s profile on a social network, and many people use this. This includes trading companies that, using information about a person, select the advertisements that are shown to him.
It is hardly possible to find a person who is not and has never been on any social network. However, if you are not registered anywhere or use only one social platform, then you probably want to expand your interaction and are looking for a social network in which you are ready to register and start communicating and sharing with others.
To make it easier for you to choose, and also to understand the general trend in the development of social networks in the world, we have prepared an article analyzing the 7 most popular social networks in the world. Each of them has its own peculiarity, although there are also those that are similar.
The most popular social network in the world. On at the moment More than 700 million people use Facebook every day. The social network was founded back in 2004 by Harvard University student Mark Zuckerberg. At that time, the current billionaire and one of the most influential people in the world was just beginning his journey in the digital world and was actively experimenting with code, writing small programs and websites.
Together with his neighbors with whom he lived while studying at the university, Eduardo Saverin, Dustin Moskowitz and Chris Hughes, he created a portal where university students could communicate, exchange news and stay in touch. The first name of the small site was Thefacebook. Only university students could. After Mark decided to expand the audience of the site, other students from the American city of Boston were allowed to register. A little later, it was possible to create an account for any student who studied in America. In order to register, you had to have email on the .edu domain - common to the educational system. And already in September 2006, all Internet users received access to the site. To register, you had to be over 16 years old and have an email on any of the existing domains.
Now the student project has grown to incredible proportions; Zuckerberg himself hardly imagined how far his desire to unite the student community would go. Facebook is one of the top five websites visited by users around the world. The active audience is almost 3 billion people, and it is growing every day, since registration on the site is free and, according to the developers, will always remain free.
Now Facebook Inc. there are other popular social networks under the leadership. One of them is Instagram, which will be discussed below.
Functions
On Facebook, you can create a person's page - a profile in which the user talks about himself. He also uses this profile to communicate with the friends he adds. He can write messages on his profile “wall”, as well as leave messages on other people’s walls. Upload photos and videos to the wall. You can also leave comments under other people’s or your own posts on the walls of friends and your own. Additional feature— you can copy other people’s posts from the wall to yourself and save them indicating the author of the post. That is, repost.
You can create interest groups, as well as play games created by third-party programmers based on the platform.
Convenient for privacy, the user controls what part of the information on his page is available to which users, and can also block people who bother him on the social network.
In the spring of 2016, the function of live video broadcasting to your profile became available. Users can connect to it and watch live, and also watch later if the page owner saved the broadcast. Thanks to this, it has become easier to share videos from travel or everyday life, and you can also quickly answer questions that viewers leave right during the broadcast.
Since the fall of 2017, it has become possible to upload stories to your profile - photos or videos that are shown separately and available for viewing only for a day. Thanks to stories, you can quickly communicate interactively with subscribers.
Instagram is mobile application and a social network where you can take photos and videos, process the photos using filters, and then distribute the photo using your profile. You can leave a media entry of 2000 characters. Short text using emoji emoticons and other text elements.
It all started with the creation of an application for creating and processing photos called Instagram. This application allowed you to take unusual square-shaped photographs and was aimed more at nostalgia lovers and hipsters, because square photos were taken by Polaroid and Kodak Instamatic instant cameras. It was also possible to process these photos using filters built into the application and share them on other social networks, as well as in this application with other users.
Its history begins in 2010. Gradually, Instagram is acquiring the features of a social network. Hashtags have been added so that you can easily find photos about other users. Since 2011, the application has been actively updated and new features are added to it.
At first, the application was only available for iPhones, but for many years it has been a cross-platform application and you can even access your profile from a computer using your username and password. There are now more than a million users on Instagram.
Functions
In the summer of 2013, a function appeared to record videos for 15 seconds. Now you can add videos to your profile that are no more than a minute long, and there is also a separate IGTV section where you can add long videos, so Instagram has now become a platform for uploading videos. You can also conduct live broadcasts in order to quickly answer questions from viewers or broadcast life events to a social network.
There are also stories - these are photos or videos that appear in a separate column and are stored only for 24 hours. Using stories, you can conduct surveys and quizzes, ask questions and answer them promptly; the user can upload several stories per day, each of which is deleted after 24 hours.
Users can comment on stories and posts, leave comments under their own posts, and also repost other people’s posts indicating the author’s page in their story or profile.
In addition, there is the saving of stories. The user sees all his stories permanently if he goes to a special section. He can also pin profile stories above photos so that all users can view one or more of them.
Doing business through Instagram has gained great development. Shops, confectioners, psychologists and everyone create their own page where they offer services, post photos of the product and interact with clients. Accounts are available not only for small companies for which this is currently the only platform for interaction. Global brands also have their own pages on the Internet, which they use for advertising campaigns and to increase brand loyalty.
Youtube
YouTube is a video hosting site with elements of a social network. The name comes from the English words you - you, you and tube - pipe. Previously, in America, trumpet was a colloquial name for old convex televisions, similar to how in Russian old televisions and televisions are generally called “boxes”.
Users of the site can upload their own videos of any length, as well as watch other people’s videos, subscribe to “channels” that produce and post videos in order to be aware of new published videos. In addition, users can add comments, create their own playlists with their favorite videos and thematic selections from other channels on their channel. Also rate the video by liking, disliking and commenting, and write comments to it.
Because it's so easy to watch, download, and interact with videos on the site, it has become the most popular video hosting site and one of the most popular sites in the world. There you can watch not only videos from amateur authors, but also recordings of television programs that are uploaded by the television channels themselves to increase audience coverage. Also films, clips, trailers for new films, news, educational and entertainment programs. Also video blogs about people’s lives, videos with recipes, tutorials for training and a wide variety of video content.
The video hosting company originated in California in 2005. The first video that was uploaded to the service is an amateur filming of one of the developers, his video from the zoo. It is still available for viewing.
Already in 2006 Youtube service bought by the giant Google. Since then, the service has begun to develop more actively, attracting millions of new users every year who watch or upload videos.
Functions
In addition to the basic functions of interaction with simple videos, there are a few more additional ones:
- Monetization. In order to earn money from each impression of your video (money comes from advertising that is shown before, after or in the middle of the video), you need to reach 1,000 subscribers who will watch 4,000 hours of video on the channel, and also be of legal age.
- Community tab. With its help, a user who has 1,000 subscribers can leave an entry with photos and links in the subscription feed. It is usually used by bloggers to additionally notify the user about the release of a new video, since the video may not always appear in the user’s subscription feed due to internal Youtube algorithms and service failures.
- “Stories” tab. It is similar to stories on Instagram and serves to provide additional prompt notification to subscribers about how things are progressing on the channel.
- Panoramic videos. Thanks to this function, the user can upload videos to the service that were shot with a special camera. It allows you to see everything in 360 degrees. The user can change the viewing angle by turning the phone, and also by turning their head if watching a video with glasses virtual reality.
Live broadcasts. Just like on Instagram, you can broadcast live here, then save them on the channel, communicate with viewers through broadcasts, or record videos about current events.
In addition, the user can change the quality of the video he is watching in order to be able to watch videos at low Internet speeds without delays. Also recently, a feature has appeared to increase video speed up to 2 times. A specific user can increase the video speed by a quarter, half, three quarters or twice in order to spend one and a half or 2 times less time watching the required video.
TikTok
TikTok is a social network that allows you to create short videos inside the application with music available in the application’s audio library, as well as record live broadcasts for quick communication with viewers and leave comments under the posts of other users. Due to the fact that the audience is growing very quickly, the application is also included in the list of the most popular social networks.
The network was launched in September 2016 in China. Now it is the most popular platform for short videos in the Middle Kingdom. It is gradually gaining popularity in other countries of the world. The application has a large number of downloads, the number of its users is increasing exponentially. Now there are about half a billion users from around the world.
It is worth noting that the majority of TikTok's audience are teenagers who record videos of dancing to popular music and thus gain approval from or interact with peers.
In addition, the application has analogues in which you can also create videos and upload them to the application in order to communicate with other users. One of them is Likee. The application is only available in App Store for iOS devices.
Functions
Initially, the application became popular due to the fact that it was possible to create short videos for popular compositions and add various effects that were quite simple, but interesting for users who were not accustomed to video editing. For example, you could add wings, fireworks, change the color of the video, change your voice, and so on.
After that, the number of filters for videos increased, and many more songs were added to the audio library. In addition, challenges have become common in the application - videos of the same format that are recorded by different people.
You can respond to another user's video with your own video, or create video pairings, where there are two videos that stand vertically next to each other and users interact as if they were one video.
VKontakte
VKontakte is a Russian social network that has its headquarters in St. Petersburg. The site is available in almost 100 languages, but is especially popular among users living in the countries of the former USSR. Using this social network, you can share photos and videos with friends, leave messages and posts on the wall, communicate in interest groups, follow the lives of bloggers, stars and ordinary users.
You can also listen to music and play browser games alone or with your friends. In terms of functionality and content, the social network is similar to Facebook, but many users find the VKontakte interface much simpler. In addition, VK does not require additional application on your mobile phone to communicate.
Also, VKontakte has a much stronger and more developed Russian-speaking community than the similar social network in America. And the abundance of content in understandable language attracts users from the CIS countries.
Like a foreign website, VKontakte was originally a social network in which students and graduates of Russian universities communicated. The site positioned itself as a platform for quick and convenient communication, finding friends, and tried to be modern and try things that were previously unavailable to RuNet users. Now it is the most popular social network in Russia.
Now this is one of the most popular sites in the post-Soviet space. There are almost a billion registered users from all over the world. Registration on the site is free and available by phone number. Linking a page to a number is one of the security requirements to ensure that a user’s page cannot be captured by attackers and turned into a platform for sending spam, as well as malicious links and fraud on behalf of this person.
Initially, the social network was available to students and recent graduates from Russian universities. However, in order to register, you had to receive an invitation from a user who already has a profile on the network, and then indicate your real first and last name. However, registration was soon opened and an advertising campaign was launched in order to attract new users. Since then, the social network VKontakte has only been developing and gaining popularity.
Functions
The functionality of the social network VKontakte is similar to what Western Facebook offers, since the networks have the same model. There is a user page. He can add other users as friends, create his own audio and video library from files that have already been uploaded by other users, or upload his own. You can share photos, videos, leave posts on your or users’ walls, comment on everything, add and create groups and communities of interest.
Thanks to the subscription feed, the user can see everything that his friends publish, as well as the communities to which he is subscribed.
Due to the fact that any user can add music and videos there, there are many songs, films, and videos on VKontakte. However, if the copyright holder complains, they will be removed from there.
The site has the ability to add history and create group chats. The site often adds updates with new features.
Twitter is a social network for exchanging short messages and small media files with users. The name comes from the English to tweet - to tweet, chat, which is why the social network has a bird logo. The format of this social network is called a microblog; the user does not pay for publishing posts and reading his subscriptions in the feed.
Twitter was created by Jack Dorsey in 2006, after which Twitter began to rapidly gain popularity, since at that time it was the fastest and convenient way exchange information and posts with users. However, initially the social network had a limit on the number of characters that can be written in one message - 140. Later, the developers increased this number to 280 characters.
The service now has almost half a million registered accounts. These are both ordinary users and stars who use it as quick way conveying information to their fans, answering their questions and expressing their opinions on current events. There are also accounts for brands and music groups.
Twitter is mainly used from a phone through a fairly convenient mobile application, but it is possible to access it from a computer or in mobile version in the browser on your phone.
Functions
Using a microblog, users can leave short messages, attach photos or videos to posts, comment, repost and subscribe to other users in order to see their posts in their feed and interact with them. In addition, you can like and block the user. There is an opportunity to lead private blog, which will only be seen by a limited number of users or no one at all.
Pinterest is social service. In it, users can add images to collections by topic and share them with other users. The main difference from Instagram is that Pinterest is a network where very aesthetic pictures of any thematic focus are posted. So, there are images of clothing, cities, food, as well as a selection of paintings and photos of stars. In addition, users often post their drawings, tattoos, etc. there.
Pinterest is used by many as a source of inspiration. It can be compared with Google images, there are also a lot there, but they are of higher quality, selected by users and elaborated.
Conclusions
As you can see, with the development of social networks, the possibilities of each person are now almost limitless. A person can develop himself and his abilities, turn his profile into a platform for business, or start his own blog and develop from it.
However, you should never forget about safety on the Internet, as well as the fact that in addition to social networks, there is a real life that needs to be developed and established with no less diligence than a virtual page on the Internet.
Unfortunately, dependence on social networks, the Internet, likes, and positive comments from complete strangers happens too often. And an overly reverent attitude towards a social network, replacing real life with a virtual one leads to depression, the development of complexes and can seriously negatively affect the psyche.
When registering on any social network, be clearly aware that this will take up a lot of your time, which could be spent on self-development, and you should also understand that social networks entertain as much as they frustrate. Make a promise to yourself in advance not to worry about stupid people online, clearly limit your visits to social networks per day and try to spend time on the Internet not only for entertainment, but also usefully - subscribe to interesting and educational blogs that will broaden your horizons and allow you to become more social and an active person.
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1Facebook is the most popular social network of all time. On the site we all know, you can upload photos, update your current status, send messages to friends, and publish messages and opinions on your page. Facebook was originally called "The Facebook" - it was some kind of fantasy idea of one Harvard University student. The social site instantly became popular and continued to grow. Facebook was initially restricted to university students only.
The social network began its journey at Harvard, and soon its creator, Mark Zuckerberg, opened it to other educational institutions. Soon the site of this social network became available not only to students and attracted millions of people from all over the world.
Many companies use Facebook to build a reputation and promote their products. There are several external companies that help support Facebook services. A service seller can create a Facebook page and post content on a regular basis in the form of advertisements.
When Facebook first appeared, two students from Harvard University accused the creator of this social network of stealing their idea. After the trial, Zuckerberg had to pay monetary damages, the exact amount of which was not disclosed. Another time the case went to court was when the co-founder and CFO filed a lawsuit against Zuckerberg after he was fired from the company, and the case was also settled for a secret amount of money.
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It is the second most famous and popular social network that allows users to send and read messages called tweets. But tweets must be short - their size is limited to 140 characters. Twitter was first created in March 2006 and launched in July 2006. By 2013, this social network became one of the top 10 most visited sites. Today there are more than half a billion registered users on Twitter. Many celebrities, politicians, world leaders, media channels and other businesses have Twitter profiles so their fans can follow them everyday life and events.
The second top social network also became famous for the fact that they came up with the use of hashtags (#), i.e. the most widely used symbols to represent various events, so millions of people on Twitter have been able to use them in their tweets. Before it came to Twitter, the hashtag was only used as a button on the phone and was considered a symbol for numbers only.
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Linkedin is the third most popular social network in the world and is intended for professionals in any field. The site was created specifically for professionals and businesses to bring together the best jobs and the best employees in one place. Linkedin was founded in December 2002 and officially launched on May 5, 2003. In 2013, this site became one of the most popular sites among social and professional networks with more than 259 million registered users in nearly 200 countries. Linkedin is available in twenty different languages.
This network allows users to create their profiles so that they can build real professional relationships with thousands of employers, employees and other professionals in their field. Here you can find a job and discover new business opportunities through the users you connect with on this social website.
Job seekers often use the site to view HR profiles to better prepare for interviews. When you sign up for Linkedin, you can tag jobs you're interested in where you'd like to send your resume. You can also congratulate other users on their promotion and you can see who visited your page.
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the site is used for storing, collecting and sharing information. Elements that are saved on a page are called “pins.” There are several other sites linked to this site that offer news and information and also have a save option. Just click on the "Pin" button on the information you want to download on the page and it will automatically load on your page.
Users can also pin each other's pages, so you can see what your friends are interested in. Pinterest is a huge platform where you can show off your creativity and interests. The user can also tag a Pinterest page from their Twitter or Facebook profiles. Pinterest has become one of the top 5 social networks over the past few years. As of February 2013, there are 48.7 million registered users, and this number is growing rapidly and intensively.
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Google Plus, which is owned by Google Inc. is another popular network with a large number of users around the world. Google Plus allows its users to create a profile page that contains a picture, background screen, work history, your interests and education history. The user can also post status updates and sees other people's status updates and can share photos. In order to see your friends' news, you need to add them to your “circle”.
In November 2011, Google Plus profiles became the backdrop for others Google services such as Gmail, Google Maps, Google Play, Google Voice, Google Wallet, Google Music and Android – the most common operating system for smartphones. Google Plus also has a Plus-1 button that allows its users to recommend content, something similar to the Facebook "Like" button.
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Tumblr is the sixth most popular social network that was created by David Karp in 2006. This social network is designed for micro-blogging. Users can post content and multimedia elements in a short blog form. The main Tumblr page is a combination of your favorite blogs and posts from people you follow.
In addition, here you can post images, videos, texts, quotes, or share links on your blog, and there is also the ability to share other people's blogs. The user can also set a schedule so that their posts can be delayed by several hours or days. Hashtags (#) are a great opportunity for friends and subscribers to easily find any messages and promotions. Today, there are over 213 million blogs on Tumblr.
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Instagram is the seventh popular social network that is used for mobile photo and video sharing on social media. It was created by Mike Krieger and Kevin Systrom and launched in October 2010. There are currently more than 300 million users of this popular social network.
Instagram allows its users to upload photos and share videos and follow other users. Users can also link their Instagram account to their Facebook and Twitter accounts, so that photos they post on Instagram will automatically appear on those sites as well. Since Instagram's creation, it has contributed to the emergence of some new trends on the Internet:
Selfie is a self-portrait taken using a smartphone or digital camera.
Throwback Thursday is a trend that started on Instagram and spread to Twitter and Facebook. Every Thursday you can post an old photo with the hashtag #TBT.
Woman Crush Wednesday - Every Wednesday you can post a photo of a beautiful lady you have a crush on.
Man Crush Monday: Every Monday you can post a photo of a handsome man.
Weekend Hashtag Project: The Instagram team suggests a specific theme at the end of the weekend. You can upload a photo that fits a given topic.
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8VK
VK is the largest social network in Russia and Europe. Although VK is available in several languages, it is mainly popular among Russian-speaking users. VK currently has more than 280 million users. The most widely used function on VK is messages. A VK user can send private messages to another user or a group of two to thirty users.
You can send audio, photos, videos, files, documents and maps in private messages. The user can also post news, opinions and share interesting links on his page. There is a “Like” button, just like in Facebook, but if on Facebook likes automatically appear on the user’s own wall, then on VK likes are information that can be hidden. A VK user can also synchronize his account with other social networks.
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Flickr is another popular site that allows the user to post and share videos, images, and web services. Flickr was created in 2005 as Yahoo Flickr, and as of 2013 it has over 87 million users. This social network offers 3 types of accounts. The first type of account is free and with such an account the user has limited storage space.
The second is “no ads”, also free, offering the same amount of storage, but without annoying advertisements. Third - account Double type allows users to get double the storage capacity. Photos and videos you upload can be displayed in normal view, slideshow view, detail view, or have an archive attached.
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10Vine
Vine is a social network for video sharing. It was founded in June 2012, and since then, Vine allows its users to edit, record and upload videos of only 5-6 seconds in length. The user can also repost or exchange photos, and can subscribe to other users.
Videos you upload can be automatically posted to Twitter and Facebook. If you want to watch videos that are uploaded by other people you don't follow, you can search by username, topic, or trending video.
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Conclusion
This was an article TOP 10 Most popular social networks in the world. Thank you for your attention!
Social networks are a type of Internet resource with the ability to join different interest groups, discuss all sorts of links, videos, photos, etc. I don’t know any people who haven’t heard of at least a couple of networks from the list below.
How did you find out about this site?
- I am a registered user.
- Is it true? Are you doing this singles thing?
- I am a 32-year-old system administrator who works in the basement. Yes, I do this singles thing.
U Facebook audience 750 million users in 200 countries. The service was born in 2004 as a site for communication between Harvard students, and what follows is a well-known story. I highly recommend it to anyone who hasn’t seen Fincher’s film – it’s educational and 3 Oscars no matter how.
Forbes included the founder of the service, Mark Zuckerberg, in the list of the richest people in the world. There are many independent programmers working inside the site; the programs they created have brought the lion's share of success
LiveJournal is a blog platform that brings together a variety of people, be it age, social status, religious views, preferences, and so on.
In 1999, American programmer Brad Fitzpatrick registered the domain livejournal.com and created a giant virtual diary service. At first it was his personal blog site, then his friends and acquaintances began to unsubscribe there, and off we go. Fitzpatrick founded the company Danga Interactive, in 2005 the company was sold to the large corporation Six
Twitter is essentially a microblogging system where users can post short texts of up to 140 characters with via SMS, pagers and web interface. Twitter was created in 2006 in San Francisco by Evan Williams, Jack Dorsey, Noah Glass and Biz Stone. IT specialists worked on an R&D project with Odeo.
In October 2006, they opened their own company, Obvious, through which they managed Twitter and Odeo. There was nothing like this before, so immediately after entering the market, the number of users of the tweeting network began to grow very quickly. In April 2007 Twitter company split from Obvious and became
Tom Anderson and Chris DeWulf met at XDrive Technologies, which they left to form their own company, Response Base Marketing. The main goal was to create a universal space for online activities. Initially, the guys focused on the interests of the creative part of users - photography, programming, music, cinema.
As of June 2006, the resource boasted 48 million unique visitors and 27.4 billion page views. Even the Pentagon decided to play on the popularity of MySpace: in the name of replenishing the ranks of the US armed forces, the social portal was created official page American Marine Corps, equipped with a “Contract” button
Google+ is a social network of Google Inc. In 2010, there was information about the development of a new social Google network Me, but it turned out to be a duck. In the spring of 2011, information about the social network Google Circles was leaked, but when it launched in June Google work+, it became clear that Google Circles is its basis.
Circles divide the social circle into separate subgroups. The number of photos and videos is not limited by anything other than size; video duration is a maximum of 15 minutes with a resolution of 1080p. There are Video Meetings where users can set up video chat (maximum 10
Brothers Pavel and Nikolai Durov were inspired by Facebook and created Vkontakte.ru. Previously, Pavel created Durov.com and Spbgu.Ru (by the way, it is still one of the largest communities for students in St. Petersburg and Moscow).
Due to the similarity of the interfaces, there were many disputes about copyright, but for Vkontakte it was necessary to write your own code, look through the Ministry of Education reference books, university websites and do a hell of a lot of work. So to be honest
Albert Popkov was on the team that created the social network Passado.com. Since 2000, I have developed a project similar to Classmates with my own money. This loud and at times scandalous network has gained an audience of 1.5 million users in Russia in 7 months.
The British company i-CD Publishing, Popkov's former employer, accused him of using Passado's ideas and other terrible sins. They also said that Odnoklassniki is a project of the FSB, this is how they monitor people and collect dossiers in leather folders. Or whatever it is
