Folder: Social Media Websites

[What is Social Media?]

About Social Media

Threads

A social network for sharing short texts, images, and video related to Instagram, available as website and app for smartphones.
Bluesky

A decentralized social media website similar to Twitter based on the AT Protocol.
Mastodon

What is Mastodon? Mastodon is kind-of a social media website similar to Twitter. More specifically, Mastodon is the name of a software used to create social media websites. One of these websites is ALSO called Mastodon (mastodon.social), which is rather confusing. Websites created with Mastodon all look the same, or at least most of them […]
Tumblr

What is Tumblr? Tumblr (www.tumblr.com) is a free social media website where a single user account may have several profiles called "blogs," where they can post text, images, videos, links, or quotes, and "reblog" blog posts from other users into their own blogs, optionally appending more content to the original post. Posts can be labelled […]
Pinterest

What is Pinterest? Pinterest (www.pinterest.com) is a free social media website where users can share images (mainly photos, but diagrams and illustrations as well), and short videos as posts called "pins." Users can "repin" pins of other users in their own profiles, and create boards to organize the pins and repins by category. It's also […]
TikTok

What is TikTok? TikTok (www.tiktok.com) is a free social media website where users can post short videos in vertical format, i.e. filmed by smartphones. More specifically, it's an app that has a website. You can follow users to receive their video posts in your feed, like posts, and post text comments on posts. Posts may […]
Twitter

Also called "X" (stylized "𝕏") by some, is a free social media website where you post small text messages, images, and videos in a feed, follow users to subscribe to their posts, and reply to users' posts (called "tweets"), and forward them to your own followers (called "retweets").
Instagram

A free social media website with a focus on photo-sharing and video-sharing.
Facebook

What is Facebook? Facebook (www.facebook.com) is a social media website where you can connect to people you already know in real life, or meet new people you want to meet, network, or get informed about local businesses. Main Features Unlike many other websites on the web, Facebook has a strict anti-anonymous policy: all users are […]
Reddit

What is Reddit? Reddit (www.reddit.com) is a website where you can talk to other people on the Internet about various topics by joining or creating an online community forum (called a subreddit, or just a sub) centered on discussing a given topic, such as cooking, woodworking, programming, movies, gaming, photography, memes, and even about specific […]
Youtube

What is Youtube? Youtube (www.youtube.com) is a website where you can watch videos about all sorts of things, like short, few second funny videos, live streams, edited clips of live streams, hours long movies, documentaries, parodies, gameplay videos, video tutorials teaching you how to do tons of things, cartoon episodes, recipe videos, workout videos, boxing […]