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Blogger
Blogger is a blog-publishing service that allows multi-user blogs with time-stamped entries. Blogs can also be hosted in the registered custom domain of the blogger and the user can have up to 100 blogs per account.
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Friendster
Friendster was the "grandfather of social media". The website allowed users to contact other members and share online content and media. It was also used for dating and discovering new events, bands and hobbies. Users could share videos, photos, messages and comments with other members via profiles and networks.
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LinkedIn
LinkedIn is a business-oriented social networking service primarily used for professional networking. As of March 2016, LinkedIn has more than 433 million accounts, out of which more than 106 million are active.
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Myspace
Myspace is a social networking website offering an interactive, user-submitted network of friends, personal profiles, blogs, groups, photos, music & videos. Myspace had a significant influence on pop culture & music as well as starting the trend of creating unique URLs for companies & artists.
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Facebook
Facebook is a social networking site that makes it easy for you to connect and share with family & friends online. Facebook was originally designed for college students but B\by 2006, anyone over the age of 13 with a valid email address could join Facebook. Today, Facebook is the world's largest social network, with more than 1 billion users worldwide.
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YouTube
YouTube is an American video-sharing website.The site allows users to upload, view, rate, share, & comment on videos. It makes use of WebM, H.264/MPEG-4 AVC, & Adobe Flash Video technology to display a wide variety of user-generated & corporate media videos. Available content includes video clips, TV show clips, music videos, audio recordings, movie trailers, & other content such as video blogging, short original videos, and educational videos.
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Twitter
Twitter is an online social networking service that enables users to send & read short 140-character messages called "tweets". Registered users can read and post tweets through various platforms. It is one of the ten most-visited websites & has been described as "the SMS of the Internet". As of March 2016, Twitter has more than 310 million monthly active users.
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Tumblr.
Tumblr is a microblogging & social networking website. The service allows users to post multimedia & other content to a short-form blog. Users can follow other users' blogs & interact with them.
As of September 1, 2016, Tumblr hosts over 312.2 million blogs.
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Foursquare
Foursquare is a service mobile app which provides recommendations of places to near a user's current location. It features a social networking layer that allows users to "check in" their location with friends by manually telling the application when they were at a particular location using a mobile website, text messaging, or a device-specific application by selecting from a list of venues the application locates nearby.
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Pinterest
Pinterest is a website that allows users to upload, save, sort, & manage images (known as pins) & other media content through collections known as Pinboards. Pinterest acts as a personalized media platform where users can browse the content of others in their feed & save individual pins to one of their own Pinboards. The end result is that the "pin feed" of each user displays unique, personalized results.
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Snapchat
Snapchat is used for creating multimedia messages (snaps) that consist of a photo or a short video that can be edited to include lenses, filters, effects, text captions, drawings & Geofilters. Snaps can be directed privately to selected contacts, or to a semi-public "Story". The private message photo snaps can be viewed for a user-specified length of time (1 to 10 seconds) before they become inaccessible.
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Google+
Google+ is an interest-based social network that is owned and operated by Google. Its features include the ability to post photos & status updates to the stream or interest based communities, group different types of relationships (rather than simply "friends") into Circles, a multi-person instant messaging, text & video chat called Hangouts, events, location tagging, & the ability to edit and upload photos to private cloud-based albums.
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