Top 10 Most Popular Social Sites and Apps

1. Facebook

Facebook has been a top social networking site, since its inception in 2004. Today, it has over 2 billion active users, making it the largest social network in the world. The unique thing about Facebook is its dynamic, multifunctional interface that brings together daily news, business, gaming, and sharing multimedia content at your fingertips. Facebook dominates the market with its strategic and frequent updates that keep it ahead of its time, with constant additions of cool new features like, location specification, cool status backgrounds, and sticker’s store, hash-tagging, image tagging, and much more. It is a major platform for Social Media Optimization (SMO) and Online Brand Optimization, for businesses large and small.

2. Instagram

Instagram is a social networking app dedicated for sharing photos and videos. It was previously an Apple app, available only on iOS, but then broadened its availability, to android, windows as well as a website. You can also connect it with your Facebook account. Instagram is the muse of photographers, artists, restaurants and anybody that likes to post their images. It is a valuable resource for image optimization for businesses, especially Instagram Influencers.

3. YouTube

YouTube is the largest video networking site in the world. It is a product of Google, and is available as a website and mobile application. Almost the entire world television since its beginning may be fitted inside You Tube. One can find movies, music, soaps and cartoons from all parts of the world; as well as private videos, blogs and YouTube Influencer videos all in one place. Most of the videos are free, and can be watched for countless times. It is a major platform for promoting movies and music as well as advertising.

4. Twitter

Twitter is the next best thing after Facebook. Today, public twits break news faster than the media. The main feature is the 140 character word limit that makes the posts catchy. Users can share photos, GIF, videos and links, and with the Twitter Card upgrade, multimedia content can be shared. Twitter is also an important resource for Digital Marketing for businesses.

5. Whatsapp

Whatsapp is primarily an instant messaging app that allows multimedia sharing, including photos, videos, audio and documents. It has also added free live video calling with high quality streaming, to its features. It is a sensational app that has a user base of over 1 billion. One can also create groups and connect with a number of people at once. There are a profile photo and status slot, also a last seen panel, the visibility of which can be managed in the settings. This is a mobile based app, but the web version is also available, wherein users have to connect a code in their phone and access the app in their desktop. The data is secure with end to end encryption.

6.LinkedIn

LinkedIn is the largest networking site for working professionals and business personnel. One can make a public portfolio, or resume by updating their profile. It is a platform for finding jobs as well as employees, and connects professionals with mutual interests, also for promoting businesses, posting white papers, advertisements, and lots of trivia.

7. Google+

Google+ is a networking arena, that is unique than all other networking sites and apps. It is an assortment of useful platforms that uses your core interests. Since its inception in 2010 with Google Buzz, then changing into Google Friend Connect, it was not until 2015 that this idea was well executed with Google+, and from then on, it had a drastic change in getting high impact usability.

8. Pinterest

Pinterest, is similar to Instagram, in terms that this, too, is a vast image network. However, it has a completely different interface, and is more like an image collection site, with a pinboard style layout. If you find a nice image, you can just ‘pin’ it, and it will show in your pinboard, along with the original source. You can also post your own pictures.

9. Tumblr

Tumblr is a blogging network, along with blogging it has a photo sharing network, like Pinterest. It has enticing blog themes, content formats, and connecting facility with other users, via the follow button. One can also share/re-blog or like other’s blogs.

10. Quora

Quora is a dedicated network to information and knowledge where users interact with each other over a meaningful information exchange. Typically, an user posts a question and others answer it, more like Yahoo answers, but the interface is more like Facebook. Questions like “What Are the Top Social Networking Sites in the World” are abundant. The users here are more serious and non-bot. Quora was launched by two former employees of Facebook in 2009.