Social Media and top 10 Social networking sites

Social Media
BY:
AbDuLlAh
&
Sami-Ullah

Topic: Social Media
1. What is Social Media?
2. Top 10 social Media sites
3. Introduction to top 10 sites!
4. Q & A

What is social media?
• Social networking is the grouping of individuals
into specific groups, like small rural communities
or a neighborhood subdivision, if you will.
• Although social networking is possible in person,
especially in the workplace, universities, and
high schools, it is most popular online.
Social Media…….

• This is because unlike most high schools, colleges, or workplaces,
the internet is filled with millions of individuals who are looking to
meet other people, to gather and share first-hand information and
experiences about cooking, golfing, gardening, developing
friendships professional alliances, finding employment,
business-to-business marketing and even groups sharing
information about baking cookies to the Thrive Movement.
Social Media…….
What is social media?

Top ten Social media sites:
1. Facebook
2. Twitter
3. LinkedIn
4. Google+
5. YouTube
6. Pinterest
7. Instagram
8. Tumbler
9. Flickr
10.Reedit

• Facebook is an online social networking service headquartered
in Menlo Park, California. Its website was launched on February 4,
2004, by Mark Zuckerberg with his Harvard College roommates
and fellow students Eduardo Saverin, Andrew McCollum, Dustin
Moskovitz and Chris Hughes.
Facebook

After registering to use the site, users can create a user profile, add
other users as "friends", exchange messages, post status updates and
photos, share videos and receive notifications when others update
their profiles. Additionally, users may join common-interest user group
s, organized by workplace, school or college, or other characteristics,
and categorize their friends into lists such as "People from Work" or "
Close Friends". Facebook had over 1.18 billion monthly active users as
of August 2015.
What is Facebook for?

Because of the large volume of data users submit to the service,
Facebook has come under scrutiny for their privacy policies. Facebook
, Inc. held its initial public offering in February 2012 and began selling
stock to the public three months later, reaching an original peak
market capitalization of $104 billion. On July 13, 2015, Facebook
became the fastest company in the Standard & Poor’s 500 Index to
reach a market cap of $250 billion. Following its Q3 earnings call in
2015, Facebook's market cap soared past $300 billion.
Con…..

Twitter (/ˈtwɪtər/) is an online social networking service that enables
users to send and read short 140-character messages called "tweets".
Registered users can read and post tweets, but unregistered users can
only read them. Users access Twitter through the website interface, M
S, or mobile device app. Twitter Inc. is based in San Francisco and has
more than 25 offices around the world.
What is twitter?

Twitter was created in March 2006 by Jack Dorsey, Evan Williams, Biz
Stone and Noah Glass and launched by July 2006. The service rapidly
gained worldwide popularity, with more than 100 million users who in
2012 posted 340 million tweets per day. The service also handled 1.6
billion search queries per day. In 2013 Twitter was one of the ten mos
t-visited websites, and has been described as "the SMS of the Internet
. As of May 2015, Twitter has more than 500 million users, out of whic
h more than302 million are active users.
What is Twitter for?

LinkedIn /ˌlɪŋkt.ˈɪn/ is a business-oriented social networking service.
Founded in December 2002 and launched on May 5, 2003, it is mainly
used for professional networking. As of 2015, most of the site's
revenue comes from selling access to information about its users to
recruiters. In 2006, LinkedIn increased to 20 million members. As of
October 2015, LinkedIn reports more than 400 million acquired users
in more than 200 countries and territories.
What is LinkedIn?

The site is available in 24 languages, including Arabic, Chinese, English
, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish, Dutch, Swedish, Danish
, Romanian, Russian, Turkish, Japanese, Czech, Polish, Korean, Indonesi
an, Malay, and Tagalog.
As of 2 July 2013, Quant cast reports LinkedIn has 65.6 million monthl
y unique U.S. visitors and 178.4 million globally, a number that as of 2
9 October 2013 has increased to 184 million. In June 2011, LinkedIn h
ad 33.9 million unique visitors, up 63 percent from a year earlier and
surpassing Myspace.
LinkedIn filed for an initial public offering in January 2011 and traded
its first shares on May 19, 2011, under the NYSE symbol "LNKD".
What is LinkedIn for?

LinkedIn is headquartered in Mountain View, California, with offices i
n Omaha, Chicago, Los Angeles, New York, San Francisco, Washington
, London, Dublin, Amsterdam, Milan, Munich, Madrid, Stockholm, Sing
apore, Hong Kong, China, Japan, Australia, Canada, India and Dubai.
LinkedIn has more than 7,600 full-time employees with offices in 30 ci
ties around the world. LinkedIn started off 2012 with about 2,100 full-
time employees worldwide, up from around 1,000 at the beginning of
2011 and about 500 at the beginning of 2010.
What is LinkedIn for?

LinkedIn's CEO is Jeff Weiner, previously a Yahoo! Inc. executive. Found
er Reid Hoffman, previously CEO of LinkedIn, is Chairman of the Board
It is funded by Sequoia Capital, Greylock, Bain Capital Ventures, Besse
mer Venture Partners and the European Founders Fund. LinkedIn reac
hed profitability in March 2006. Through January 2011, the company h
ad received a total of $103 million of investment.
Con …..

Google+ (pronounced and sometimes written as Google Plus) is an i
nterest-based social network that is owned and operated by Google I
nc.
The service, Google's fourth foray into social networking, experienced
strong growth in its initial years, although usage statistics have varied,
depending on how the service is defined. Three Google executives ha
ve overseen the product, which has undergone substantial changes le
ading to a redesign in November 2015.
What is Google+?

Google+ launched in June 2011. Features included the ability to post
photos and status updates to the stream or interest based communiti
es, group different types of relationships (rather than simply "friends")
into Circles, a multi-person instant messaging, text and video chat call
ed Hangouts, events, location tagging, and the ability to edit and upl
oad photos to private cloud-based albums.
What is Google+ for?

YouTube is a video-sharing website headquartered in San Bruno, Calif
ornia, United States. The service was created by three former PayPal e
mployees in February 2005. In November 2006, it was bought by Goo
gle for US$1.65 billion. YouTube now operates as one of Google's sub
sidiaries. The site allows users to upload, view, and share videos, and i
t makes use of WebM,H.264/MPEG-4 AVC, and Adobe Flash Video tec
hnology to display a wide variety of user-generated and corporate me
dia video. Available content includes video clips, TV clips, music video
s, and other content such as video blogging, short original videos, an
d educational videos.
What is YouTube?

Most of the content on YouTube has been uploaded by individuals, b
ut media corporations including CBS, the BBC, Vevo, Hulu, and other
organizations offer some of their material via YouTube, as part of the
YouTube partnership program. Unregistered users can watch videos, a
nd registered users can upload videos to their channels. Videos consi
dered to contain potentially offensive content are available only to re
gistered users affirming themselves to be at least 18 years old.
What is YouTube for?

Pinterest is a web and mobile application company, which operates
an eponymous photo sharing website. Registration is required for use.
The site was founded by Ben Silbermann, Paul Sciarra and Evan Sharp.
It is managed by Cold Brew Labs and funded by a small group of
entrepreneurs and investors.
Pinterest CEO Ben Silbermann summarized the company as a "catalog
of ideas," rather than as a social network, that inspires users to "go o
ut and do that thing."
What is Pinterest ?

Pinterest is a free website that requires registration to use. Users can
upload, save, sort, and manage images—known as pins—and other m
edia content (e.g., videos and images) through collections known as p
inboards. Pinterest acts as a personalized media platform. Users can b
rowse the content of others in their feed. Users can then save individ
ual pins to one of their own boards using the "Pin It" button, with Pin
boards typically organized by a central topic or theme. Users can pers
onalize their experience with Pinterest by pinning items, creating boar
ds, and interacting with other members. By doing so, the users "pin fe
ed" displays unique, personalized results.
What is Pinterest for?

Content can also be found outside of Pinterest and similarly uploaded
to a board via the "Pin It" button, which can be downloaded to the b
ookmark bar on a web browser, or be implemented by a webmaster d
irectly on the website. They also have the option of sending a pin to
other Pinterest users and email accounts through the "Send" button.
Some websites include red and white "pin it" buttons on items, which
allow Pinterest users to pin them directly.
Con …..

Instagram is an online mobile photo-sharing, video-sharing and socia
l networking service that enables its users to take pictures and videos,
and share them on a variety of social networking platforms, such as F
acebook, Twitter, Tumblr and Flickr. Originally, a distinctive feature was
that it confined photos to a square shape, similar to Kodak Instamatic
and Polaroid images, in contrast to the 4:3 aspect ratio typically used
by mobile device cameras. In August 2015, version 7.5 was released, a
llowing users to post photos captured in any aspect ratio. Users can a
lso apply digital filters to their images. The maximum duration for Inst
agram videos is 15 seconds.
What is Instagram?

Instagram was created by Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger, and launche
d in October 2010 as a free mobile app. The service rapidly gained pop
ularity, with over 100 million active users as of April 2012 and over 300
million as of December 2014. Instagram is distributed through the Appl
e App Store, Google Play, and Windows Phone Store. Support for the a
pp is available for iPhone, iPad, iPod Touch, and Android handsets, whil
e third-party Instagram apps are available for Blackberry 10 and Nokia-
Symbian Devices.
The service was acquired by Facebook in April 2012 for approximatel
y US$1 billion in cash and stock. In 2013, Instagram grew by 23%, while
Facebook, as the parent company, only grew by 3%.
What is Instagram for?

Tumblr (stylized in its logo as tumblr.) is a microblogging platform an
d social networking website founded by David Karp and owned by Ya
hoo! Inc. The service allows users to post multimedia and other conte
nt to a short-form blog. Users can follow other users' blogs, as well as
make their blogs private.Much of the website's features are accessed f
rom the "dashboard" interface, where the option to post content and
posts of followed blogs appear.
As of November 1, 2015, Tumblr hosts over 261 million blogs.The com
pany's headquarters is in New York City. Yahoo! announced its intenti
on to acquire Tumblr on May 20, 2013, for approximately $1.1 billion.T
he deal closed on June 20, 2013.
What is Tumblr?

Flickr (pronounced "flicker") is an image hosting and video hosting w
ebsite, and web services suite that was created by Ludicorp in 2004 a
nd acquired by Yahoo in 2005. In addition to being a popular website
for users to share and embed personal photographs, and effectively a
n online community, the service is widely used by photo researchers a
nd by bloggers to host images that they embed in blogs and social m
edia.
What is Flickr ?

The Verge reported in March 2013 that Flickr had a total of 87 million r
egistered members and more than 3.5 million new images uploaded da
ily. In August 2011 the site reported that it was hosting more than 6 bill
ion images and this number continues to grow steadily according to re
porting sources. Photos and videos can be accessed from Flickr without
the need to register an account but an account must be made in order
to upload content onto the website. Registering an account also allows
users to create a profile page containing photos and videos that the us
er has uploaded and also grants the ability to add another Flickr user a
s a contact. For mobile users, Flickr has official mobile apps for iOS, An
droid, PlayStation Vita and Windows Phone operating systems, and an o
ptimized mobile website.
What is Flickr for?

Reddit (/ˈrɛdɪt/)is an entertainment, social networking, and news webs
ite where registered community members can submit content, such as
text posts or direct links, making it essentially an online bulletin board
system. Registered users can then vote submissions up or down to or
ganize the posts and determine their position on the site's pages. Con
tent entries are organized by areas of interest called "subreddits". The
subreddit topics include news, gaming, movies, music, books, fitness, f
ood, and photosharing, among many others.
What is Reddit?

Reddit was founded by University of Virginia roommates Steve Huffma
n and Alexis Ohanian in 2005. Condé Nast Publicationsacquired the site
in October 2006. Reddit became a direct subsidiary of Condé Nast's par
ent company, Advance Publications, in September 2011. As of August 2
012, Reddit operates as an independent entity, although Advance is still
its largest shareholder. Reddit is based in San Francisco, California. In O
ctober 2014 Reddit raised $50 million in a funding round led by Sam Al
tman and including investors Marc Andreessen, Peter Thiel, Ron Conwa
y, Snoop Dogg and Jared Leto. Their investment saw the company valu
ed at $500 million.
What is Reddit for?

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