Facebook is an online social networking site shared around the world. Facebook connects people everywhere; it is used to keep in touch with family and friends, business networking and bringing to light current issues around the world. Membership is required in order to create a profile and connect with others. You are able to upload photos and videos of interests.
Here is a link that shows statistics of this site: Statistics: Facebook
Flickr is an online photo storage, sharing website that lets you upload your photos, share it and post it to facebook, blogs and any other websites. It also lets you comment, tag or make notes about your photos and others.
Here is a link to the Flikr Blog which posts lots of photographs and imagery: Flickr Blogs
Twitter is a social networking and micro blogging website that lets its users send out text-based posts called tweets that is made up 140 characters. The tweets show up in the user’s profile and are visible for all to see. Members can subscribe to other members’ profiles and this is called “followers”. A user can restrict their visibility of their tweets to just their followers or for everyone to see.
Below are example of tweets:
Facebook is very interactive. Once you set up your profile, you can comment on other people’s profile wall vice versa. It also lets you update your status that is visible in the home page of all your friends. They can comment or click the ‘like’ button. It also has a chat room for a one on one chatting sessions; you have the option of clicking offline if you don’t want to be seen.
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