The Most Popular Social Media Websites
If you’re looking for relevance, maybe you should join a social media site. Social media sites are sites used for networking information to and from the user. Social media has been a major part of our lives since the dawn of MySpace, and now almost everyone is connected. Funny thing is, is that you probably already are on one; it’s probably how you’re seeing my article. If you already know, I’d just thought I’d give you my take. Below will the most relevant social media sites. These are the 10 most popular social media websites online today.
Take it, MySpace, you just got Zucked!
My opinion may not be unique, but if you’re not aware of the following sites, my opinion may help. These listed below will generally give you the most popular consensus on the top tier social sites people use. At the very least, you’ll learn a little history as to the platforms used online. Maybe you’ll learn about a new site from this list, and maybe you won’t. Below I’m going to list the top 7 most relevant social media sites online. The following is listed from the lowest to highest traffic (at least in my opinion) and in respective popularity overall.
Snapchat (The Most Popular Social Media Websites)
Alexa Rank: 3,954
Snapchat is a multimedia messaging app developed by Snap, Inc in 2011. Snapchat was created by Evan Spiegel, Bobby Murphy, and Reggie Brown, former students at Stanford University. One of the principal features of Snapchat is that pictures and messages are usually only available for a short time before they become inaccessible to their recipients. The app has evolved from originally focusing on person-to-person photo sharing to presently featuring users’ “Stories” of 24 hours of chronological content. All of this, along with “Discover,” letting brands show ad-supported short-form content.
Oh, snap, I just had to send that pic, now didn’t I?
It also allows users to keep photos in the “my eyes only,” which lets them keep their photos in a password-protected space. It has also reportedly incorporated limited use of end-to-end encryption, with plans to broaden its use in the future. As of March 2020, Snapchat had 229 million daily active users. On average more than 4 billion Snaps are sent each day.
Alexa Rank: 150
Pinterest is a image sharing site and social media service founded in December 2009. It’s mainly a picture site where people share stories through boards and pins they choose to display on their site. The site is designed to enable saving and discovery of information (specifically “ideas) on the World Wide Web (WWW) using images and, on a smaller scale, GIFs and videos in the form of pin boards.
Pin me, baby — pin me good!
You can create an ad space and do so to share a site or business page. The site was created by Ben Silbermann, Paul Sciarra, and Evan Sharp, and it had 300 million monthly active users as of August 2019. While not the most popular website, it is certainly up there. If you’re highly interested in creating pictures and boards, this website is for you.
Tumblr (The Most Popular Social Media Websites)
Alexa Rank: 122
Tumblr is an online micro-blogging and social networking website founded by David Karp in 2007 and currently owned by Automattic. The service allows users to multimedia and other content to a short-form blog. If a user so decides, they can follow another person’s blog to get updates sent to the their feed. Not only this, you can choose to make your blogs private.
Tumblr weeds… .
Think of this site kind of like Twitter, but more so as a blog sharing site. For bloggers many of the website’s features are accessed from a “dashboard” interface. As of August 12, 2019, Tumblr hosts over 475 million blogs and receives over 500 million monthly visitors. If you’re a blogger looking to help a personal blog or make one via a host, check out this site.
WhatsApp (The Most Popular Social Media Websites)
Alexa Rank: 70
WhatsApp is a freeware, cross-platform messaging and voice over IP (VoIP) service owned by Facebook, Inc. Although more popular amongst the European populations, WhatsApp still plays a particularly big roll in America. It’s a texting and sharing app that adds privacy to your interaction. It allows users to send text and voice messages, make voice and video calls, and share images, documents, user locations, and other media.
Yes, I will What’s App you?
WhatsApp’s client application runs on mobile devices, but is also accessible from desktop computers. This is so as long as the user’s mobile device remains connected online while they use the desktop app. The app has been the most widely used app since 2015, and has over 2 billion users worldwide. While it’s an app more so than a social media site, it’s a social media app. You can connect free to anyone in the world, so if you’re interested in that encrypted fun, get it.
Alexa Rank: 63
LinkedIn is a business and employment-oriented online service that operates via websites and mobile apps. Launched in May 2003, it is mainly used for professional networking, including employers posting jobs and job seekers posting their curriculum vitae. As of 2015, most of the company’s revenue came from selling information about its members to recruiters and sales professionals. Since 2016, it’s been wholly owned by Microsoft and its subsidiaries.
Hey, would you like to get connected and be business partners… baby… .
LinkedIn allows members (both workers and employers) to create profiles and “connections” to each other in an online social network which may represent real-world professional relationships. Members can invite anyone (whether an existing member or not) to become a “connection.” As of May 2020, LinkedIn had 690+ million registered members in 150 countries. Join this site if you’re looking for a place to find professional acquaintances or work long or short term.
Alexa Rank: 52
Twitter is an online social media networking and micro-blogging website created in 2006 by Jack Dorsey. The site has users interact and post messages called “tweets.” Registered users can post, like and retweet tweets. If you’re not registered, you can only view these tweets. This site is typically held along side any of the other sites. On Twitter, you’re typically on there to share your latest thoughts or news.
Tweet this, mudder pucker!
The characters you were limited to was 140, but has since been changed to 280. As of 2018, Twitter had more than 321 million monthly active users posting nearly a billion tweets daily. If you enjoy hearing news without reading too much, you should give Twitter a go. Like everything else, if you haven’t heard of Twitter, you’ve been under a rock for a long time.
Alexa Rank: 30
Instagram is an online photo and video-sharing social networking service. It was created by founders Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger in October 2010. The app allows users to upload media, which can be edited with filters and organized with tags and location information. Posts can be shared publicly or with pre-approved followers. Users can browse other users’ content by tags, locations and view trending content. Users can like photos and follow other users to add their content to a feed.
Just how fast can you do it?
After its launch in 2010, Instagram rapidly gained popularity. With one million registered users in two months, 10 million in a year, and 1 billion as of May 2019, it’s popular. Join here if you’re looking for something a little more streamlined than Facebook. Both of these websites connect with each other, as do other sites. If you’re looking for a more follower and photo based website with cool filters, check ’em out.
Reddit (The Most Popular Social Media Websites)
Alexa Rank: 19
Reddit is an online social news aggregation website. While that doesn’t sound like a social media website, it’s close enough. The site was founded by University of Virginia students Steve Huffman and Alexis Ohanian. Much of the news you see on other sites, along with the plethora of forums you see online come(s) from Reddit.
Read What? Red, white and blue?
Registered members submit content to the site, e.g., links, text posts, and images, which are then voted up or down by other members. Posts are organized by subject into user-created boards called “subreddits.” These typically cover a variety of topics such as news, politics, science, movies, video games, music and more. The only thing is, is that you should watch out for the trolls on here, because they are rampant. Be careful, but don’t fret, if you want a cool place to find and share news, come here.
Alexa Rank: 4
Facebook is the largest social media and networking site on the internet, and it has been since 2008. The platform was created in 2004 by five Harvard University dropouts, including Mark Zuckerberg. The site has been prone to criticism for having made constant changes over time without warning. The site is the prototypical social media site, i.e., others have tried to follow in it’s footsteps. You can add friends, post content, create business pages, like and comment on posts, share content and more.
Yeah, f**k Facebook!
If you don’t know about Facebook, you’ve been living under a rock. While the site has been known, along with Google, to infringe on users’ privacy, it has been a vocal free-speech proponent. Facebook claimed that it had more than 2.3 billion monthly active users as of December 2018. It’s still the king, but we’ll have to wait and see how long it lasts. If you want to create a business or just join up with family or friends, this is the website for you, maybe… .
YouTube
Alexa Rank: 2
While YouTube is barely considered a social media site, the site does host networking type policies. The site was created in 2005 by three former PayPal employees. This site allows users to upload, view, rate, share, add to playlists, report, comment on videos, and subscribe to other channels. The site has implemented more social networking style features, e.g, stories and so on, especially recently.
Are you talking to me?
If you’re looking to make money, YouTube will use Google Adsense to run ads or sponsor on your uploaded videos. The site is owned by Google, but the video streaming and online video-sharing platform is free. Although they do have premium services, even the corporate uploads do little to interfere with privacy. As of May 2019, more than 500 hours of video content are uploaded to YouTube every minute. Get started today if you’re looking to make some extra cash or a career out of it.
Extra: MySpace , Google+ and TikTok (Most Relevant Social Media Sites)
Alexa Rank: 2,436
MySpace is a social media networking service founded in 2003. From 2005 to 2008, it was the largest social networking site in the world, reaching more than 100 million users per month. Myspace had a significant influence on technology, pop culture and music. It was the first social network to reach a global audience.
MyFaceSpaceBook!
It played a critical role in the early growth of companies like YouTube, and created a developer platform that launched the successes of Zynga, RockYou, and Photobucket, among others. Facebook took the reign in 2008, and since then, MySpace has still had 50.6 million unique monthly visitors and had a pool of over 1 billion active and inactive registered users.
Alexa Rank: Defunct
Google Plus was a social network owned and operated by Google. The network was launched on June 28, 2011, in an attempt to challenge other social networks, linking other Google products. The service, Google’s fourth foray into social networking, experienced strong growth in its initial years. Although usage statistics varied, depending on how the service was defined, it did well.
Feel the pain, Googleplex!
Three Google executives oversaw the service, which underwent substantial changes that led to a redesign in November 2015. Due to low user engagement and disclosed software design flaws (that potentially allowed outside developers access to personal information of its users), the Google+ developer API was discontinued on March 7, 2019. Google+ was shut down for business and personal use on April 2, 2019.
Alexa Rank: 309
TikTok is a Chinese video-sharing social networking service owned by ByteDance, a Beijing-based internet technology company founded in 2012 by Zhang Yiming. It is used to create short dance, lip-sync, comedy and talent videos. ByteDance first launched Douyin for the China market in September 2016. Later, TikTok was launched in 2017 for iOS and Android in most markets outside of China.
What a **** app!
The application allows users to create short music and lip-sync videos of 3 to 15 seconds and short looping videos of 3 to 60 seconds. In February 2019, TikTok, together with Douyin, hit one billion downloads. Now, if you have nothing better to do, join this app.
(The Best Social Media Apps)
Reputable websites or not, you’ll probably find use in any of the above social networking sites. They offer different choices in interaction that may appeal to your interests. If you want to join all of them, that’s on you too, I’m just here to spread the message. Maybe a little guidance and knowing ahead of time helps when choosing the best sites for you. Have fun, and godspeed!
Snap this chat, Snapchat!Pin your interest, Pinterest!Tumbling to Tumblr… .What’s up, WhatsApp?LinkedIn, baby!Glitter, (s)hitter, and Twitter — oh, my!Instagram, and hi, my name is Graham.Reddit already… what’s next?Face time on Facebook… are we friends now? Suck it, Zuck!YouBoob or YouTube? … yeah, I went there.- Liked and followed, social mediate.
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Godspeed!
