Main Types Of Social Media

• • Nowadays social media plays a huge part in peoples’ lives. People are able to not only communicate with each other no matter where they are in the world, but it’s also universally used for entertainment. There are many types of social media but I’m only going to be focusing on the main five.

Social Networks – probably the biggest and most popular type of social media and is the place where people communicate with each other. The most well known being Facebook, MySpace, Twitter.

Media Sharing Networks – this one is fairly self explanatory. People are able to share media in both photo and video formats. With a growing popularity of platforms such as Instagram, media sharing networks are also widely used. Media sharing networks include Instagram and Youtube.

Forums – forums are primarily used for people to discuss different topics and share their opinions and points of view. Anyone can post a picture, ask a question or comment on another person’s post. Most popular forum websites are Reddit and Quora.

Bookmarking And Content Curation Networks – this type of social media is used to explore, save and share content or media they are interested in. Arguably the most popular network is Pinterest.

Blogging Networks – include all blog related websites. ‘Bloggers’ can publish their own or comment on others’ content online. Examples of blogging Networks are WordPress and Tumblr.