Introduction; Social media
The concept of social media started in the late 90s with the emergence of the first social media platform or website Six Degrees. Then Friendster and MySpace none of which are around 67 these days but social media has taken off and dominated in the last 15 years. In this video, I want to show you a quick overview of how to use the top 6 social media platforms and a brief history of each.
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The largest social media platform is Facebook with over 2.7 Now billion monthly active users. Facebook is almost the oldest social This list includes media platforms and it was. A college campus was built in 2004. And then you needed an edu email. The address meant you had to be enrolled to sign up for Facebook at the college but after a few years, they opened it up to everyone. Anyone can create a Facebook account and now create a Facebook profile. And then look at their pictures and them You can even comment on videos and their status and give them a thumbs up.
And then you can share a lot of things on Facebook that way from the simple Facebook profile Facebook has added many different features to the Facebook platform then it was only on facebook.com but now they have a really powerful mobile app with the Facebook app on iOS and Android. Examples of what you can do on Facebook Facebook now also have Facebook stories, similar to Instagram stories, which we’ve already talked about. There’s a marketplace called Facebook, an easy place to buy and they have Facebook Dating, sell stuff, they made a dating app, Facebook also has Facebook Pages, a great way to do business, and an online presence on Facebook.
The personal profile has the Facebook clock which is where the whole face of Facebook is You can now watch short-form or long-form videos with Facebook Watch Facebook. They hit certain milestones when paying creators so you can become a creator on Facebook and get a share of the revenue there too.
Now one billion monthly social media active users Instagram was created in 2010. Really a filtering and camera app but it turned out to be a really big one. The most useful social media platform Instagram had a great time when it was created in 2010. And the iPhone started and it grew in capacity simultaneously. Take pictures and post them on Instagram or use them as a filtering app now Instagram for Facebook has been purchased. Over a billion dollars and since Facebook bought Instagram was one of many updates many futures inside Instagram started out but now Instagram is just a filtering app
and then as a photo-sharing app you can do a lot of things With Instagram these days and it’s grown in the last 10 years now you can. Go Live on Instagram You can share Long format videos on Instagram You can share short format videos. Instagram still photos Instagram and Instagram shut down all the new features when they started rolling out a few years before Instagram stories are a way to share photos and videos just like disappearing You can do it on Snapchat as a part. There was a different section of Instagram outside that Instagram used called the Instagram feed. From things people post on Instagram
So it has become very powerful. Multiple different platforms in one You can use it on Instagram.com but to get the most out of Instagram you should use the Instagram app on iOS. on iPhone or Android phone and you can become a creator on Instagram. Use the Instagram app to create your videos and the Instagram app lets you
A lot of control.
LinkedIn has over 760 million monthly active users and it
The oldest social media platform LinkedIn survived the list. Established back in 2003. This is pre-Facebook and YouTube LinkedIn is designed as such only. The social media platform is designated for professional use so you can still use LinkedIn the way it works. Create a profile like any social media platform but instead of sharing that profile, you will share personal things your resume, and your work.
History and a professional headshot for. Your photos and everything about LinkedIn are designed to connect you. To other professionals Maybe you’re looking for a job LinkedIn is the perfect place for Maybe you’re looking to connect with other colleagues Your company LinkedIn is now a perfect LinkedIn space for it. You can still share photos and videos.
And articles but you want to keep it relevant. It is a professional social media platform to work on. It is the only platform because it is designated for professional companies or people to use to run ads. Job titles cannot be directly advertised to them. Indeed, most social media platforms have a do-it-yourself platform, but LinkedIn makes it very, very focused on their LinkedIn ads, and it’s no longer private that it’s purchased. By Microsoft in 2016 26 billion dollars and LinkedIn later bought lynda.com and launched it.
A video-based platform for learning what LinkedIn Learning is Imagine if you wanted to learn Photoshop. Or if you want to learn Microsoft Word, there are courses for LinkedIn Learning so you pay monthly.
Pinterest has 440 million monthly active users and is a social media platform that has been around since 2010. pinterest.com or its mobile app on iOS and Android is the best way to describe Pinterest now. It’s almost like a digital scrapbook. How Pinterest Works You can create one.
Profile on Pinterest Create a board for yourself which is almost like a folder that you can put on your computer and inside that board. There are items called pins so you pin So imagine a physical board if you’re pinning things on your board. It has pictures and you can make boards For whatever interest you have, you can have one for recipes, you can have one for home decor, you can have one for yourself.
Work out Pinterest is made up of many different boards and pins and anything you can imagine. You can find it there for your interest. So all you have to do is create an account to start with Pinterest you can search multiple different boards for you and then interests for you. Pinterest is all about different things you can pin to that board Now again, it depends on your interest. These can be images, they can be videos, they can be animations, they can be linked to other websites, and you can pin other people’s stuff. So if you have boards and types you can always create your customized scrapbook for yourself
You can use it on a computer.
Snapchat
Snapchat has over 350 million monthly active users and he
Started back in 2011 as a messaging app. The platform where you send a message to one of your friends. They just looked at it and then invisible at the time one of the unique things that Snapchat had at the time was the platform and it was very realistic filters that you could use. Record or take the Snapchat camera itself Add a photo of yourself and filters Add a mustache for you on a hat A lot of different cool things even turn yourself into a baby so that you wear it.
All were part of Snapchat and what later made Snapchat stand out. Full-blown social media has become A platform where you can build yours. Your profile Share your story Follow your friends they were Snapchat streaks which means if you send a snap to a friend Every single day you will keep a streak. Snapchat and Snapchat launched in 2020. Spotlight is another platform inside Snapchat for sharing videos that are in long vertical format and they are short-form videos so 15-second videos can be shared.
Twitter with over 330 million monthly active users and then you can share yours.
One of the oldest of the group and it started back in 2006 thought but had a character limit on how many words or how many characters you could use. Which was 140 characters so you could share your thoughts quickly. And it was 2006 that made Twitter stand out in the world of social media. Twitter now has 280 characters and you can share multiple tweets simultaneously. What you share is called a tweet and these days you can share pictures that you can share.
Videos that you can share website links to so you don’t just have to use text on Twitter. And one of its biggest updates to Twitter in 2020 was called Twitter Fleet. And it’s a way to share videos or photos on Twitter that have disappeared in some 24 hours The other social media platform we’ll talk about is called Stories. You can follow other people to share your thoughts and create your Twitter tweets.
Regarding public figure celebrities who have a Twitter profile, you can go ahead and follow them. and can contribute There’s also something called retweeting a conversation by commenting on their tweets, which is a great way to amplify a message or share a message you like when you share someone else’s tweet on your own Twitter profile.
twitter.com and Twitter mobile app on Android and ios devices an interesting note about Twitter it is a publicly traded company you can buy Twitter stock but in 2016 it sold almost all of the company to Disney and Disney backed out of a lot and now X is known as
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