Blog: Social networking sites

Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and Snapchat are all social media platforms to communicate with a large audience group. They all consist of posts and comments, in Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook the main user posts about something and their friends/followers are able to like the posts and comment. Both facebook and twitter are used to write and comment on something and share videos. Instagram is used for uploading pictures and short video clips where users are able to like comment on each individual post. On the other hand, snapchat is used to post a picture or video to one's story. Then the snapchat user's friends are able to view and reply to the story via messages. In a sense these social networking websites have the concept of blogs because one usually posts informal information, and another person being a user of that social media platform can comment on the original post.

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