Social networking sites

Now that I have created a Twitter account, I had a chance to compare Twitter with the other social networking sites out there. After experiencing Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, and LinkedIn, I personally like Facebook the most out of the four. It seems that Facebook has more ways of using the site compared to the other three. I find it great that you can use Facebook to stay in touch with friends through Messenger, update people with status updates, posts links that interest you, and posts personal pictures. I think it includes many of the benefits of Twitter and Instagram while those two sites are more niche themselves. 

The fact that LinkedIn is more professional is something that I like about that site. Being an aspiring professional in college, I like that there is a site for me to stay in touch with professionals as well as professionally display myself to colleagues and prospective employers. There are many people I know professionally that I would not want to keep in touch through any of the more personal sites so I think LinkedIn is a great tool for that.

I feel like Instagram is the most limited of the four, because it is solely about posting pictures and videos. It doesn't really allow for conversations or discussions and I think the fact that you can post pictures on Facebook too definitely negatively impacts Instagram. However, I really like the layout of Instagram since they do focus only on pictures, which is why I still actively use it.

Twitter is the one I use the least. I am not a huge fan of debating and keeping up discussions online, which I think are the strengths of Twitter. However, I am learning to enjoy it especially because I can get news and information quickly if I follow the right sources on Twitter. 

Overall, I think each site has their pros and cons and it depends what you are looking from a social networking site.

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