Whether you want to hang around with friends, share photos with your loved ones or follow daily inspirational quotes, social media sites are the best suited for it. The rapid growth in technology and an increase in the availability of internet services help people to get connected through social media sites with just a click.
People can now have a quick chat with their friends or can read the most trending news story from their computer or mobile devices easily with the help of social media. Also, social networking sites become a great tool for businesses to increase brand awareness.
Here are the top 10 most popular social media sites list and their features.
Top 10 Social Media Sites List
- Founder: Mark Zuckerberg
Facebook is the top online social media and social networking site where users can post anything general including; images, text, videos and applications. Facebook is an American company based in California, US. Currently, Facebook is used by many big companies and brands to promote their businesses online through display advertising and video ads.
Facebook has also some popular applications like; Instagram, WhatsApp and Facebook Messenger where you can chat and share anything with your friends.
X (Formerly Twitter)
- Founders: Jack Dorsey, Noah Glass, Biz Stone, Evan Williams
X (Formarly Twitter) is a popular news and social media application where users can communicate with each other by sending messages called ‘tweets’. To post a new status or like a post one needs to get registered with X through a mobile number or an email address. The headquarters of X is in California, United States.
Instagram is a photo and video-sharing platform developed by Meta Platforms. Users can post media with hashtags, geographical tagging, and filters. The posts are public and can be shared with pre-approved followers. Instagram users can follow other users and share love to their content by liking and sharing. The Instagram application is available in iOS, Android, Fire OS, Microsoft Windows, and Web browsers.
- Founder: Steve Huffman, Aaron Swartz, Alexis Ohanian
Reddit is the no.1 social media and bookmarking site with the majority of its users from the United States. On Reddit, a user can share text, links, and images with others and also, can react to other posts using the downvote or upvote feature.
- Founders: Reid Hoffman, Allen Blue, Konstantin Guericke, Eric Ly, Jean-Luc Vaillant
LinkedIn is a multilingual professional social networking site where employers and companies can post jobs and job seekers can post their CVs or can contact the recruiter.
WhatsApp Channel
WhatsApp Channel is a great way to share updates and connect with followers. To start a WhatsApp channel you need a WhatsApp account. You can start a WhatsApp channel through the WhatsApp Business app also.
Sina Weibo
- Founder: Sina Corp
Sina Weibo is a Chinese microblogging social media platform which was launched by Sina Corporation (Chinese Technology Company) in 2009. On Sina Weibo, people can post short messages, images, videos, and graphics with friends by tagging their @(username) and #(hashtags).
- Founders: Paul Sciarra, Evan Sharp, Ben Silbermann
Pinterest is a social media platform where users can share images and videos through “pins” on user-created boards called pinboards.
VK
- Founder: Andrey Rogozov
VK is a Russia-based online social networking site where users can make friends, create groups, share multimedia and chat. It was founded in 2006.
Tumblr
- Founder: David Karp
Tumblr is mainly a microblogging platform for bloggers to share text, images, and multimedia with people all around the world also, tumblr users can follow and reblog other bloggers’ posts.
Flickr
- Founder: Stewart Butterfield, Caterina Fake
Flickr is an image and video hosting platform which allows users to upload or post images and videos online which others can fav (same as like or favourite), comment and share.
LiveJournal
- Founder: Brad Fitzpatrick
Livejournal is a social networking site where people can share blog entries and journals. Though it is a Russian social media site; there are users from all around the world.
These are the most popular social media sites all over the world. Use them to know more about their features.
