This document discusses different social media genres and their characteristics. It begins by defining Twitter, Instagram, and Vine. Twitter uses hashtags to group topics and allow people to join discussions. Instagram focuses on photos and uses likes to gauge popularity. Vine shares short videos, often comedic, that aim to garner many likes. The document then poses a series of questions about how these genres are used, what types of content they feature, and their cultural impacts. It explores how social media can be used for entertainment but may not reflect users' true personalities. Celebrities' needs are best served by Twitter and Instagram for building large followings, while average people can find fame on Vine through creative videos. Inequalities exist between those who gain large

1. Genre
Engaging in any social media
site
Twitter
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Vine

2. Genre characteristics of
Twitter
The Hashtag
Social
-Allows people from all walks
of life the opportunity to
chime in or join the movement
(trending topic)
-Allows you to show your
support to the victims
-Lets others that may not
watch the news know what is
happening around the US.
Cultural
#PrayforBoston- shows as
sense of caring; letting the
victims know that “we” as in
America & twitter truly care
about their safety
-Any threat against America
is taken seriously

3. Genre characteristics of
Instagram
“Likes”
Social
-Nash Grier (Instagram
famous)
-you can see how many people
liked his photo
-5409 likes
-115 comments
Cultural
-A lot of “average joe’s” want
to become Instagram famous
because people will who you are
-Famous people & your
followers will send you stuff

4. (Vine) Facebook
Page
Title: Vacuum
Cam
Video
A guy goes up to this girl
while she is sleeping and puts
a vacuum up to her lips and
she freaks out and wakes up!
Social: Funnier vines means
more followers
-12.5K likes
-1.4K comments
Cultural: It is a type of video
that is know becoming
mainstream because everyone
thinks it is funny and wants to
create the best vines

5. Question #1:
Social Media can be used anywhere a person has access to the internet
(WWW) via a tablet, smartphone, cell phone, laptop, or even a desktop. On
Twitter, you can tweet, retweet, favorite, post pictures/ videos and follow/
unfollow people and gain followers. On Instagram, you can post pictures and
now videos of literally anything from food to your foot. On vine, you post
videos; most of them are of funny situations/ scenarios. Anybody can use a
social network; young or old. The objective of these sites are to connect and
know what people are doing, meet new people, and to get likes.
Question #2:
“Tweeting”, “instagraming”, and “vineing” allows you to post/ express your
feelings and for people to comment/ retweet/ like/ favorite with their
opinion. Social networking also allows you to track your every move for
someone whom you may not see everyday.
Question #3:
Anybody who creates an account with Twitter, Instgram, or Vine can use it
to keep their friends, family, and the world update-to-date with what they
are doing or what is happening in their life. It may not be obvious at first
but depending on the mood a person is in while depend on what type of genre

6. Question #4:
On twitter, the subject of a tweet can be about anything; from the
presidential election, to reality shows, to the death of Micheal Jackson, and
even the beef between Rihanna and Teyana Taylor. On Instagram, there are
pictures that most of your followers will be uploading depending on the day;
for example, Monday is Man Candy Monday, Tuesday is Transformation
Tuesday, Wednesday is Woman Crush Wednesday, and Thursday is Throwback
Thursday. On Vine, you can post whatever just make sure it is funny!
Question #5:
Tweets and vines suggest that you have followers that can relate or
understand what you have posted and that they will in return retweet/
comment/ favorite it or give you a “shoutout“ and that’ll hopefully help you
can gain followers.
Question #6:
Funny/Comedy twitter accounts tweet or post pictures to get laughs,
celebrities tweets or post pictures to promote their album or new single, and
the average person vines things to make people laugh.

7. Question #7:
To function and to use social media in the proper way you must understand that s lot of
terms, On twitter, you should understand the infamous #, RT, DM, Favorite, NF, FB and
basic texting abbreviations. On Instagram, you should understand emoji’s #mcm, #tbt, #wcw
or #wbw. On vine, you must understand the situation that the person is acting out.
Question #8:
The label I would put on social media would be pure entertainment. Most people can look
through hours and hours of vines (trust me, I know someone) and never stop laughing because
it is funny to watch people reenact certain situations that have happened to everyone in
person or even to watch someone fall. The internet is much better than reality.
Question #10:
The genres can either create a serious, funny or comedic, or tense mood on the topic of
their tweet, vine, or picture.
Question #11:
By uploading a picture, video, or by tweeting by engaging in this activity you will be able to
communicate with others, express your view point and to simply document your life publicly
and for your followers to respond. It does not allow people to get to know the real you
because on twitter at the end of the day, most people upload funny/ truthful/ relatable
social media types for likes– it does not mean that is who they really are. Life has come
down to the amount of likes and followers you have.

8. Question #12:
Celebrities needs are most served on twitter and Instagram because it is not
hard for them to get followers. People already know their names and naturally
want to know what's going on with them personally and musically. On vine, the
average person has a chance to become famous because eventually people will
see how talented you are at making videos and anybody can become a star.
Question #13:
Vines, pictures and tweets do not show you the whole person because what
you post is only a snapshot of your life, for a single moment; it won’t tell you
that persons full story. On twitter, you have a limit on the number of tweets
you can do in an hour (100) or you will go to twitter jail and if your twitter
famous and get a bunch of DMs, there is a limit of the number of those to.
Question #14:
There are definitely inequalities in the social media sphere. The better your
twitter posts are, the more retweets you get, the more retweets you get,
the more people know who you are, the more people who “know” you, the more
followers you get and the more followers you get, the quicker you can become
twitter famous and your fans will basically do anything you want them to do!