Blog: Social networking sites

After visiting multiple social networking platforms I have seen differences between them. I visited  Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and Reddit. When it comes to Instagram and Twitter they both use hashtags but Instagram is to just post a photo and comment and like those pictures, Twitter on the other hand gives you a limited amount of space and I saw more words rather than graphics. Facebook doesn't show every post that occurred and is more of pages you liked sharing things such as news or articles that you have to click on to further view. As for Reddit which was my favorite, you can find any subreddit which is a page dedicated to a certain topic that shows who is part of the subreddit and how many are online. Anyone can post anything on it and it can get up voted or down voted. This is a good way to be surrounded by people who are interested in a similar topic and interact with them.

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