Social Networking

Now a days everyone is on some type of phone most likely checking Twitter or Facebook. There are so many different types of social media sites. First and foremost there is Facebook everyone and their grandma knows about facebook. It has become a site that you can not only connect with friends but share photos, play games, and creep on people. You can't say that you haven't creeped at least once in your life on someone. I'm not going to explain it any further because I'm sure you can get the gist of it.

 Anyway another popular website is Twitter. Now just about anything that you watch on T.V. has a little hash tag so you can tweet about the show. Twitter is different than facebook in that Twitter is just a little update about what you are doing. There isn't any games on twitter and there isn't very many pictures like Facebook. There are also some different things that you can do like on Facebook you can "like" or "comment". On Twitter you can "re tweet" something that someone said this will just show up like you tweeted it but with the person that you retweeted name is under it. You can "favorite" someones tweet. This shows up that you favoritedsomeones tweet it is just saying that you like what they said. You can also quote what someone said (I don't use this one as much). Quoting is used if you want to respond to what someone said. You can also just tag them in your tweet like facebook. I hope this clears up some questions about Twitter.

The next social media site that is pretty popular is Instagram. You have to have a smart phone or some kind Apple devise such as an ipod to join this site. All Instagram is, is a site for  pictures that people take. There are no status updates or games. You just update a picture of something and then you can add a filter which is just something that will either brighten your photo or make it black and white. Some of the things that you can do is crop it, blur out some of it, or put a frame on your picture. Most of the things that you can do is the same as Twitter and Facebook. The only thing that people do is comment on pictures or like them. Some of the things that you might want to know if you are thinking about getting one is some of the abbreviations that people use: there is "tbt" which means "throw back Thursday"you would say this when you are uploading a picture from a long time ago. There is "OOTD" this one had me really confused when i first got one but it means "outfit of the day" So you would just take a picture of whatever you are wearing. Those are the two big abbreviations that are used on Instagram. There is also photo challenges that people do where you find a list of types of pictures and then you upload a picture everyday.

The next thing that I'm going to talk about is the newest social media app. You also need a smart device or phone to become apart of this site. It is called Snapchat. Snapchat is a way that you can send someone a picture but they only get to see it for a few seconds before it is "erased forever". As you can tell this one can be used inappropriately but most people (by most people I mean my friends and I) use it for ugly selfies. A selfie is where you turn the camera so you are the only thing in the picture. You can draw on your picture or type something on top but that is pretty much it. If you have an iPhone you can send videos but there is no liking or commenting on photos because they are gone within a few seconds.

I hope this helped if you were thinking about getting a new social media site. I know that a lot of people get confused when they start talking about all of the different sites or they think that they are all the same. Thanks for reading and if you have a twitter or instagram follow me at katie2wolfe. Thanks :)