is a social networking website that’sdesigned for finding and sharing shortupdates. In fact, each post—or tweet asthey’re called on Twitter—is limited to just140 individual characters (letters, spaces,and punctuation marks)

is a popular photo-sharing app forsmartphones. Compared with other socialnetworks, Instagram is relativelysimple—it’s focused exclusively on sharingphotos with your friends.

A blogging platform is the software orservice that you use to publish your contentonto the internet in the form of a blog. Ablog platform is a specific form of a contentmanagement system.

is a social networking site designedspecifically for the business community. Thegoal of the site is to allow registeredmembers to establish and documentnetworks of people they know and trustprofessionally. It is another example ofsocial networking site where its focus ison business and professional networking

What is LinkedIn and how can it help you?

LinkedIn is the leading professionalnetwork on the web

Connect with classmates, faculty, and familyprofessionally

Find new opportunities for internships andfull time positions

Manage what potential employers learnabout you from the Internet

Find key contacts at companies thatinterest you

Facebook allows you to create not onlypersonal accounts but also pages andgroups where you can share content.Theonly downside of this is that you restrictedto the Facebook's "one-size-fits-all" design.

A social platform is a web-based technology thatenables the development, deployment andmanagement of social media solutions and services. Itprovides the ability to create social media websites andservices with complete social media networkfunctionality.

Twitter

Instagram

Blogging Platforms

LinkedIn

It is the biggest social network ofstudents, and is gaining groundamong professionals too. Facebookapplication enables you to add newways for users to interact with eachother. On the plus side,Facebookhas a lot of users.

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