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Designed originally as mobile app for smartphones, this moment this utility has become one of the largest social networks, the number of users of which has already exceeded 100 million. Resource settings help you filter images by given parameters and accompany them with short captions. Now, with the help of this site, they not only get to know each other and upload photos, but also earn money by creating online stores and banks of paid images.
https://www.instagram.com/We present you a site designed for young and mobile people who are interested in modern music and cinema and who want to make new friends. The conditions for registering a resource prohibit users who are under the age of 18 from logging in to the system. There are no other restrictions. So come on in, get to know each other, download music and movies, create groups, post news and share life hacks with 200 million Internet users who have chosen this portal as a platform for virtual meetings.
http://www.connect.uaA social network without claims to uniqueness, made on the principle of similar resources with all the accompanying services: adding photos, uploading videos, downloading music, creating author's blogs and joining communities. The news feed is dominated by non-political news, and the games catalog contains a good selection of online toys available online. From the attractive, we note the simple functionality, from the minuses - the unsystematic nature of the placement of news messages.
http://www.privet.ru
A free all-Ukrainian student network, where, along with services that allow students from different schools to communicate, there are placement functions school schedule and grading. Parents, by going to the page of their son or daughter, can find out how teachers this week assessed the knowledge of their native child, and teachers have the opportunity to remotely post assignments for homework. The functionality of the resource also provides for communication at the level of school groups.
http://shodennik.ua/
Thematic resource intended for travelers. Its services allow you to mark your location on the map, communicate with other tourists and evaluate the work of restaurants, hotels, shops and entertainment venues around the world you have visited. The authors of the resource attract new visitors with the opportunity to get access to short tips from locals that will help you navigate in a foreign city, choose a good and inexpensive hotel, cafe and nightclub.
https://en.foursquare.com/
F.Gid
The portal for fishermen, which we invite you to visit, contains information that will be of interest to lovers of silent hunting. By registering on the site, you will become part of a community of Internet users who cannot imagine their life without a fishing rod. Here you can show off your own catch by posting a photo report about it, learn about the best baits, get advice from experienced fishing enthusiasts, read the angler's encyclopedia and ask about the biting forecast in your locality.
http://www.fgids.com/
Do you have a dog and want to get training advice from professional cynologists and connect with other animal lovers just like you? A social network of dog breeders will come to your aid, where the maximum full information about our four-legged friends, including a list of nicknames, show schedule, breed descriptions, top record holders and kennel addresses. On the exchange of puppies, you can get a little barking cute, and in the "video" section, upload videos about his first successes.
http://www.dogster.ru/It is a combination of a social network and a dating site. Therefore, in addition to the usual services for posting photos and videos, games and creating groups, here you can take a compatibility test and start your own diary, giving access to it only to the elite, vote for the best couple and yourself get into the rating of duets that received the most votes. The concept of a group on this site has been replaced by the name "club", but otherwise the functionality is similar to other portals of a similar format.
http://www.limpa.ruHere is a portal that combines the features of a social network and a dating site. Apart from familiar functions search for new acquaintances, online games, music and video exchange, there are unique services that distinguish it from other portals. Firstly, duels are arranged here - virtual discussions of two opponents on a given topic, in which anyone can take part. Secondly, here you can participate in a club meeting. And thirdly, you can go on a "blind date".
http://www.justsay.ruOne of the largest Russian-language social networks, the number of registered users of which currently exceeds 200 million. Along with the traditional services for finding people, games and uploading audio and video files, a lot of functions are available here, including transferring money between users, broadcasting live broadcasts within a group, as well as a mobile messenger application and many options with which you can promote your group and make money online.
http://www.odnoklassniki.ruIn fact, this project arose as a result of a symbiosis of two formats - a dating site and a social network. Hence the selection of resource services, which are designed to ensure that users can communicate and find new friends. A youth audience under the age of 35, generously sharing their photos, are the main visitors to this Internet site. Portal services allow you to spend time playing online games, share posts with friends and rate photos of other users.
http://www.fotostrana.ruThis resource is a platform for communication of people with an active lifestyle. Here the most topical issues are raised and current topics are discussed. In other words, this portal is designed for those who are interested in politics in all its manifestations. Those who take the first steps on this path will be able to learn from more experienced colleagues, and for those who already have their own experience, the site will help expand the ranks of their associates by attracting new like-minded people.
http://www.soratniki-online.ru
This site claims to be a conductor in the world of information and a platform for communication with people who have similar interests to you. Here you can watch movies, play online games and applications, download videos from torrent trackers to your personal page, participate in discussions and share your impressions. The portal provides an opportunity to create your own resource using the website builder, optimize it in search engines, increase attendance and learn how to make money on it.
http://platforma.mirtesen.ru/Wyw
A youth network with over two million registered visitors. Here, for communication, it is not necessary to register under your real name and surname, as well as upload real photos. According to the authors of the resource, such concessions make the portal more comfortable to use and distinguish it for the better from other similar services. Otherwise, the functionality of the site is traditional: communication in groups, posting photos, searching for people, creating author's blogs and online games.
http://www.wyw.ru
This portal was created for those who monitor their health and want to know more about how to save it. The "Medical Encyclopedia" contains definitions of medical terms and diseases, in the "Traditional Medicine" section - advice from our grandmothers on the treatment of many diseases and strengthening immunity, and in the "Psychology" section - materials that help to understand the relationship between the sexes and the relationship between parents and children . Register, communicate, exchange opinions and photos.
http://polonsil.ru/
Xing
One of the largest professional social networks with over 10 million members. By registering here, the user gets access to the job search service abroad, and also expands the circle of his acquaintances, with whom he finds himself in the same professional field. An important bonus received by network users is the opportunity to exchange experience, get acquainted with new companies and employers, and maintain a personal blog, creating an expert reputation.
https://www.xing.com/This resource was created exclusively for schoolchildren and, according to its developers, is virtual assistant in studies and a place where children are looking for new peer friends, expanding their social circle. Teenagers can unite in groups, the topics of which cover all areas of the life of a modern student - from studying to watching movies. The site regularly holds contests among its subscribers, and the games section contains single and multiplayer Internet toys beloved by teenagers.
http://www.classnet.ruThe purpose of creating this resource was to unite Russian-speaking people living in different parts of the Earth, and to help restore lost ties with relatives, classmates and friends. Subsequently, this direction ceased to be the main one, resulting in a small portal that became a platform for communication between residents of the regions of Russia and Ukraine. The functionality of the site is not diverse: here you can add photos, search for a person, conduct correspondence and place ads.
http://www.100druzei.ru
Here is the world of PC gamers, where they get acquainted with reviews and previews of cyber games, the latest news from gaming software developers and share their secrets of success. Fans of comics and blockbusters will also find something to “profit” here, since a separate section of the portal is dedicated to this topic, in which reviews, videos and reviews are posted. Otherwise, this is the same social network as the others, with the need for registration and the ability to communicate with their own kind.
http://kanobu.ru/According to Wikipedia, today it is the most popular communication network in Russia and Ukraine, ranking fourth in the world in terms of the number of users. Initially positioning itself as a platform for schoolchildren and students, this resource later changed its format, expanding the age range, but among its visitors, the young audience still prevails. The functions of the service are traditional: publishing photos and creating albums, adding video and audio, and communicating through posts.
http://www.vkontakte.ruChoose a platform for communication. The list is compiled on the principle of a catalog, where next to each site there is information on its main topic. You can choose a resource that helps you find friends, allows you to create groups, play games together, establish business contacts, buy, sell or exchange things, cars and real estate, prepare for the arrival of a newborn in a family, get advice on raising and developing a child. A small note: social networks from all over the world are collected here.
http://www.ph4.ru/tsoc_index.ph4Are you looking for a platform for communication, but find it difficult to choose the right one? To help you, Yandex has created a catalog of the most popular social ial networks. More than 100 sites presented in it cover different areas of life and will help you find a resource that matches your interests: with an extensive film library, a wide selection of games, a large repository of music. There are portals where schoolchildren communicate, businessmen discuss and needlewomen share their experience.
http://yaca.yandex.ua/yca/cat/Entertainment/commun...This site contains the most famous and popular social networks. Whatever your hobbies, here you will find portals that match your interests and allow you to chat with friends, share experiences and post photos, get language practice talking to foreigners, create your own group, find former classmates, find out the latest news about the latest events in country and the world, etc. In the section of novelties you can get acquainted with social portals recently appeared on the world wide web.
http://www.starterix.ru/social-nets.htmlHere is a catalog of social networks, compiled to make it easier to find a platform for communication. The authors of the resource have grouped sites by subject: business, health, dating, art, hobbies, travel and tourism, sports, etc., thereby greatly simplifying the choice of a suitable site. In the TOP-10 of the catalog you will find the best resources that have received the highest rating from users, and in the Articles Rubricator section you will find materials that tell you how to learn how to get a stable income using social networks.
http://www.social-networking.ru/soccat
Scientists have not stood aside from the now fashionable trend to create thematic social networks and have developed their own platform for communication, where you can find like-minded people, learn news about the latest scientific conferences and symposiums, as well as to get acquainted with the schedule of upcoming events. Those who need a job will certainly be interested in the "Vacancies" section, and for those who need funding for their research and development, it will be useful to visit the "Grants" section.
http://www.science-community.org/Russian social network for Russian-speaking people both in Russia and abroad. This is a place where you can make new acquaintances and meet new friends, download songs and upload your tracks, keep an author's blog and get acquainted with latest entries custom music chart. The portal is designed for those who love not only listening to music, but also writing. That is why music-news regularly appear here, and there is an opportunity to create a page of your own musical group.
http://www.ruspace.ru
This site is positioned as a national social network. Created on the basis of the mail.ru portal, it is a good platform for communication for the Russian-speaking audience, whose age ranges from 20 to 50 years. Here you can search for classmates, classmates and former work colleagues, view and add new photos and videos, read blogs, answer questions, leave entries in the guest book. At your service - user-friendly interface, game set and news feed.
http://my.mail.ruHere is an attempt by Belarusian programmers to create a national social network. How successful she was, judge for yourself. We also note that start page more like a news site, where the official point of view on events taking place in the country and the world is posted. The developers of the resource also chose quite unusual way registration via a QR code, although you can also use traditional method by clicking on the "Our Chat" link and going through the usual process of creating a personal account.
http://www.vceti.by
User reviews are posted here about literally everything, from household items purchased and tested in business to places of rest that I had to visit. The authors of the resource encourage site visitors to exchange useful information thereby helping each other. Members of the network do not just describe their impressions and rate them, but also write what problems you may encounter when buying or traveling, and give advice on how to avoid them.
http://otzovik.com/
Lovely ladies made an attempt to create their own social network, the results of which you can evaluate by visiting this site. The participants registered here can find new friends and suggest their topics for discussion, start a diary and found their own group by inviting like-minded people to it, post articles of their own composition, and take part in competitions. The topics of the portal materials are selected taking into account women's interests: beauty, cooking, needlework, children, travel, etc.
http://www.myjulia.ru/
Anyone can join this club of book lovers. What does registration on this resource give? Firstly, expanding the circle of communication at the expense of book lovers who share your interests. Secondly, you will be the first to know about new works appearing on the shelves of bookstores and in virtual libraries. Thirdly, you will have the opportunity to meet authors, read reviews from professional critics, and even run your own blog where you can show off your literary talents.
http://bookmix.ru/Do you want to get rid of loneliness and find your partner or friends with whom it would be always interesting and fun? Then go to this resource and expand your social circle. All you need is to know English and register. After that, services for sharing music, uploading photos, posting ads, creating a personal blog and a thematic forum will become available to you. Otherwise, we have a regular social network where users join groups, exchange posts and comments.
http://www.umka.mobiWhat can be said about this portal? Among its visitors are teenagers and young people under the age of 25, united by common interests. Accordingly, the services are selected taking into account this category of users. Search for music, the presence of an IM client with a video chat function and a lot of information demanded by teenagers. It remains only to add: one cannot do without knowledge of English language, since the network is designed for an English-speaking audience and does not have a Russian version.
http://www.tagworld.comThis is a three-dimensional virtual world with elements of a social network. Account holders get the opportunity to choose an avatar from the "People" and "Vampires" categories, create their own virtual character, goods and art, and build architectural structures. The services of the site allow you to communicate online in a chat. In other words, the authors of the resource have created a second life in the virtual world for real people, where their abilities are limited only by their own imagination and software capabilities.
http://www.secondlife.comHow, besides searching for old and new acquaintances, does this portal attract users? First, the presence in its archives of a solid collection of abstracts. Secondly, the opportunity to test your strength by passing the online tests of the Unified State Examination and the GIA. Thirdly, the presence cloud storage, where you can merge files for storage. And fourthly, a messenger distribution kit for computers and phones. In other words, this is a resource designed for young learners who want to combine the interesting with the useful.
http://friends.qip.ru
This is a social network that positions itself as an entertainment portal that functions as a platform for communication, an online store and a blogosphere. By registering on the site, you can take part in the discussion of any of the existing topics or suggest a new one. To make it easier for network members to connect, all topics are grouped, among which you will find “Home and Interior”, “Cosmetics”, “Recreation and Tourism”, “Movies”, etc. Photo and video upload services are attached.
http://vilingstore.net/A social network created on the basis of the famous portal and designed to find old and new acquaintances. Like most similar services, this one has features for downloading movies, videos, music, books, games, photos, and wallpapers. The network community unites into interest groups, where they exchange opinions, life hacks and the latest news from their area of interest. Here you can listen to the radio online, set up a personal organizer, send a postcard to a friend and fish out an interesting recipe.
http://narod.i.ua
Internet community of creative people: artists, musicians, writers and photographers. Here you can get acquainted with young authors and their works. If you yourself belong to a cohort of creators, then you have the opportunity to submit your work for general discussion and even raise funds for its publication. For this purpose, a Crowdfunding section has been created on the resource, where everyone can make a donation to release a music album, print a book, or shoot a movie.
http://kroogi.com/explore?locale=ru
This is a portal for mothers who are ready to share their own experience of raising children. Here, like any other social network, there are interest groups, a news feed and a people search service. Due to its specificity, the site has and distinctive features. For example, it contains a catalog of maternity hospitals, schools and kindergartens, a recipe section, a heading for face and body care, as well as a pregnancy calendar and a list of names that can be called a baby.
http://www.stranamam.ru/According to the authors of this service, LifeStyleRepublic.ru is a network multimedia portal that hosts community services and reality shows designed for the Internet audience. The theme of the portal is style and beauty. Therefore, users thematic network are young people who are not without interest last news from the catwalks, publications of famous couturiers with comments on new trends in the fashion world. There are communities of interest and services for uploading videos, music and photos.
http://lifestylerepublic.ru
By creating this resource, its authors wanted to unite politicians, party leaders, journalists, experts and ordinary citizens who are not indifferent to the fate of the state within one Internet community. For some, this site can become a launching pad into big politics, for some it will open their eyes to events in the domestic political community, and for some it will simply make new friends and listen to others' opinions about trends in foreign and domestic politics. Everyone will find their own.
http://politiko.ua/Today, people communicate more and more in the virtual space. Internet and mobile devices allow you to do it almost anywhere. The most popular social networks play the role of a kind of bridge between vast distances and at the same time a small state, each of which has its own rules.
Today people are more and more connected in social networks.
In itself, the concept of a social network has already become quite vague, since many of those virtual sites that are called by this name are instant messengers, video streamers, video hosting, photo hosting. Nevertheless, all these communities are recognized as social networks.
List of the most popular Russian social networks. networks differs from the similar global one. Mainly on the first two lines:
- In contact with
- Skype
- Google +
- Viber
- facebook messenger
This is the list we have for 2016.
VK.com
VK has traditionally been the leader among all other social networks in Russia and many CIS countries for many years. In October last year, the contact turned ten years old, and it remains a virtual monopoly in the field of online communication between Russians. The average daily audience is about 64 million visitors.
Every year, both the mobile application and the web version get new features that are present in other social networks. One of these was the emergence of "Stories", with the help of which you can tell your friends and subscribers about your life on video or photos. In addition, money transfers and well-known voice messages appeared.
OK.ru is the fifth most popular Russian site. Odnoklassniki all the time step on the heels of Contact: 51 million users per day - but nevertheless they can never catch up with him.
This year in social networks appeared broadcasts from groups, money transfers, the OK Video application. Odnoklassniki also try to provide users maximum amount communication opportunities. It is worth noting that both sites: both VK and Odnoklassniki belong to the Mail.Ru Group.
Facebook was in third place largely due to the existence of the Russian counterpart - VKontakte. Since it is more convenient for us to use the brainchild of Pavel Durov, and many have many more friends there, 6 million Russians visit Facebook every day.
Skype
Skype cannot be called a full-fledged social network. network, as it is still deprived of many of the functions inherent in the same VK. The main feature of Skype has been and will be video calls. Yes, there are chats and the ability to add personal information, but most people use Skype for video or audio calls.
Despite the emergence of programs such as Viber, WhatsApp, FaceTime, Skype does not lose its popularity. Perhaps because many are not yet sufficiently accustomed to new substitutes for the old reliable program.
Google +
Google+ is Google's failed attempt to create its own social media. net. Unfortunate because the popularity of Google + is declining every year. When users there will not remain at all - a matter of time.
The most interesting thing is that Google + takes the fifth place in our country. In other countries, it is already, in general, practically not listed due to low popularity.
A popular application is taking over the world with rapid steps. Today, WhatsApp is used by hundreds of millions of people around the world: the monthly audience is 1 billion. It is also quite popular among Russian users.
Viber
An analogue of WhatsApp with similar functionality. However, it is more often used to make calls than to exchange messages.
Viber is already starting to lose ground after the appearance of such popular means of communication or social. networks like whatsapp.
Instagram is in eighth place, but in the world it is constantly in the lead and is in the top five. This is a network that is used by a large number of young people. It became finally considered social after Direct appeared on Instagram - a chat with users.
Instagram is gradually starting to outpace Twitter. At Insta everything is built on the exchange of photos, on Twitter - on short messages.
Twitter has gained a foothold in the post-Soviet space, but is beginning to lose popularity to Instagram, which is gaining new users. The monthly audience is 7.7 million people.
On Twitter, the main feature is the little notes about their lives that users share with each other. Naturally, the creators did not stop there and added many more different features: chat, the ability to post videos and photos, likes and reposts - making Twitter a full-fledged social network. network.
facebook messenger
Facebook messenger cannot be considered as a separate social network either. This is an application that allows you to chat with your friends.
However, despite this, Facebook Messenger was in the top ten most popular networks. The messenger has an arsenal of features similar to Viber and WhatsApp.
How are things abroad?
- facebook messenger
- QZONE
YouTube is also well known to the Russian user, but in the world it is ranked second, and as one of the most popular social networks. networks. Billions of videos are watched daily on the site, and the number of accounts is 1.3 billion.
Well, perhaps in a few years YouTube will become as popular with us. The service currently mainly acts as a server for huge amount video, allowing users to create their own channels, comment on each other, put “likes” or “dislikes”.
Tumblr appeared in Russia relatively recently and is just beginning to gain its popularity. While in the rest of the world it is already in the top ten. Its monthly audience is 555 million people.
This network is used mainly by young people. In it, you can share various multimedia content. At the same time, developers are trying to monitor its uniqueness.
QQ and QZONE services are known primarily in Asia. This is a messenger and a social network, respectively. It is unlikely that you will find your friends there by going to them.
So, as you can see, in 2016 the lists of the most popular networks partly overlap. And even if they do not merge at all, it is clear that everywhere people follow the path of instant messengers and specialized applications in order to discard the excess. Although the tops are still occupied by traditional social networks.
Almost every modern person has pages in . It helps to keep in touch with the world, communicate with acquaintances, learn something useful, and, of course, be aware of everything that is happening. Most of all, social networks are popular among, but the older generation also does not stand aside from the benefits that it offers them.
Those without social media pages seem to active users strange, because they do not post photos, do not make virtual friends, do not receive information. But there is a simple explanation for this - people who do not use social networks either communicate offline and do not want to waste their time, or they are simply not interested - everything suits them in life, so there is no desire to look for something in the virtual world.
10. Circle of Friends
Communities of interest are also offered to users. Registration on the site is free, here you can chat, view the news feed, play - everything is the same as in other social networks.
Mostly older people sit on the site, young people choose other social networks for themselves.
Launch date: 2003
9. Facebook
The largest American social network in the world Facebook"continues to develop and improve. Often the site is abandoned by new Russian-speaking users, not having time to figure out its interface and rules, returning to VKontakte, but Facebook is indispensable when there is a desire or need to make international acquaintances.
After a thorough study of the site, you understand how many opportunities it provides: you can make your profile completely private, you can also hide friends, restrict other users from accessing your profile photo - it will be available only to friends.
Users can also create separate pages with advanced functionality under one account.
Launch date: 2004
8.Twitter
Short blog posts are called microblogging. The service is free. Some use Twitter as a diary, some take notes, and others follow the lives of their favorite celebrities. You can change your profile, decorate as you wish.
Also, the social network makes it possible to earn on advertising in your feed, but for this you will have to try. The feed should be interesting to other users, and it is also very important not to forget to follow in response, otherwise all the followers will scatter.
Launch date: 2006
7. Habrahabr
Interesting fact: word " Habrahabr” arose by chance, and meant a greeting. At some point, it was decided to use it as the name of the project. It is believed that from some language it means "hair".
The website was created to publish news, thoughts, analytical articles related to information technology. Habrahabr is a very informative and interesting resource where ordinary people write fascinating articles.
On the site you can learn about news from the world of inventions, science and technology. There is information on the resource for every taste.
Launch date: 2006
6 LiveJournal
« LiveJournal"- a blog platform of the Russian and world Internet for keeping online diaries. On the site, you can publish entries, comment on others, maintain collective blogs (communities), add users as friends in order to follow changes in the feed.
In terms of expressing their thoughts, this is the largest Internet platform. Huge plus this resource lies, among other things, in the fact that there is no advertising.
Launch date: 1999
5. My World
Users have an indefinite attitude towards the social network - it is convenient to use it as mail, the interface is simple, but spammers are overcome in My World.
When viewing the page of a user, a person will see who visited him, but it is possible to send a paid SMS to hide.
From time to time, notifications about people who studied at the same school as the user come to the mail - for some, this is an opportunity to find those with whom communication was once lost.
Launch date: 2007
4. YouTube
It is hardly possible to find people who would not have heard of a video hosting site " YouTube". Users can view, comment, download and share videos.
Thanks to its convenience and simplicity, YouTube has become the most popular video hosting service, which is regularly visited by more than 4 billion people.
On the site you can find videos for every taste: documentaries and regular films, music videos, entertainment and educational programs, etc.
The only negative is inadequate comments, but you can ignore them.
Launch date: 2005 year.
3.Instagram
« Instagram is a popular photo and video sharing app. Many users cannot imagine life without this application, others, on the contrary, negatively perceive the idea of flaunting their lives.
The application is suitable for people who like to take pictures and share news from their lives with their friends.
Some use "Instagram" as an income, for example, selling handicrafts. The main source of visitors and subscribers is provided by written hashtags.
Launch date: 2010
2. Odnoklassniki
Russian social network " Classmates» Convenient for chatting with friends, watching movies, listening to music and more. On the site you can find people with whom you once lost contact, as well as find useful contacts.
Odnoklassniki has interest groups, a video call, various applications, you can add photos to an album, comment on others. In a social network, you can not only communicate, but also work. The most popular social network among the older generation (50+).
Launch date: 2006
1. VKontakte
VK users can share instant messages, create interest groups, upload photos and videos, and play browser games.
In a personal profile, you can specify your data: hobbies, place of work, etc. The social network is convenient to use, but it takes a lot of time and causes addiction.
In order to find adequate and really interesting content, you have to “dig around”, as there is a lot of useless information in VK.
Launch date: 2006
Social networks have become not only a new space for communication, but also a place for self-expression, work, shopping, searching for the necessary information and people. From the profile of a person on a social network, you can learn a lot about a person and many people use it. Including trading companies that, using information about a person, select advertising that is shown to him.
It is hardly possible to find a person who is not and has never been in any social network. However, if you are not registered anywhere or use only one social platform, then you probably want to expand your interaction and select a social network in which you are ready to register and start communicating and sharing with others.
In order to make it easier for you to choose, and also in order to understand the general trend in the development of social networks in the world, we have prepared an article with an analysis of the 7 most popular social networks in the world. Each of them has its own peculiarity, although there are those that are similar.
The most popular social network in the world. There are currently more than 700 million people on Facebook every day. The social network was founded back in 2004 by Harvard University student Mark Zuckerberg. Then the current billionaire and one of the most influential people in the world was just starting his journey in the digital world and was actively experimenting with code, wrote small programs and sites.
Together with his neighbors, with whom he lived while studying at the university, Eduardo Saverin, Dustin Moskowitz and Chris Hughes, he created a portal where university students could communicate, exchange news and be always in touch. The first name of the little site was Thefacebook. Only college students could. After Mark decided to expand the audience of the site, other students from the American city of Boston were also allowed to register. A little later, it was possible to create an account for any student who studied in America. In order to register, it was necessary to have an e-mail on the .edu domain - common for the educational system. And already in September 2006, all Internet users got access to the site. To register, you had to be over 16 years old, and also have an email address on any of the existing domains.
Now the student project has grown to incredible proportions, it is unlikely that Zuckerberg himself imagined how far his desire to unite the student community would reach. Facebook is one of the five sites that users around the world visit most often. The active audience is almost 3 billion people, and it is growing every day, since registration on the site is free and, according to the developers, it will always remain free.
Now Facebook Inc. there are other popular social networks under the command. One of them is Instagram, which will be discussed below.
Functions
On Facebook, you can create a person's page - a profile in which the user talks about himself. Also, with the help of this profile, he communicates with the friends he adds. Can write messages on his "wall" of the profile, as well as leave messages on other people's walls. Upload photos, videos to the wall. You can also leave comments under other people's or your posts on the walls of friends and yours. Additional function- you can copy other people's posts from the wall to yourself and save them with the author of the post. That is, repost.
You can create interest groups, as well as play games that are created by third-party programmers based on the platform.
It is convenient for privacy that the user controls what part of the information on his page is available to which users, and can also block people who interfere with him on the social network.
In the spring of 2016, the function of live video broadcasting to your profile became available. Users can connect to it and look in live, as well as watch later if the page owner saved the broadcast. Thanks to this, share videos from travel or Everyday life it has become easier, and you can also quickly answer questions that viewers leave right during the broadcast.
Since the fall of 2017, it has become possible to upload stories to the profile - photos or videos that are shown separately and are available for viewing only for a day. With stories, you can interact more quickly with your followers.
Instagram is a mobile app and social network where you can take photos and videos, edit photos with filters, and then share photos using your profile. You can leave a media entry for 2000 characters. Short text using emoji emoticons and other text elements.
It all started with the creation of an application for creating and processing photos called Instagram. This application allowed you to take unusual photos of a square shape and was designed more for lovers of nostalgia and hipsters, because square photos were taken by Polaroid, Kodak Instamatic instant photo cameras. It was also possible to process these photos using the filters built into the application and share them on other social networks, as well as in this application with other users.
Its history begins in 2010. Gradually, Instagram acquires the features of a social network. Hashtags have been added so that you can easily find photos of other users. Since 2011, the application has been actively updated and all new features have been added to it.
At first, the application was available only for iPhones, but for many years it has been a cross-platform application and you can even access your profile from a computer using your login and password. Instagram now has over a million users.
Functions
In the summer of 2013, a function appeared to record videos for 15 seconds. Now you can add videos to your profile, no more than a minute long, and there is also a separate IGTV section where you can add long videos, so Instagram has now become a platform for uploading videos. You can also conduct live broadcasts in order to promptly answer questions from viewers or broadcast life events to a social network.
There are also stories - these are photos or videos that appear in a separate column and are stored for only 24 hours. With the help of stories, you can conduct polls and quizzes, ask questions and answer them quickly, the user can upload several stories per day, each of which is deleted after 24 hours.
Users can comment on stories and posts, leave comments under their posts, and also repost other people's posts with the author's page indicated in their story or profile.
In addition, there is a saving of stories. The user sees all his stories all the time if he goes to a special section. It can also pin profile stories above a photo so that all users can view one or more of them.
Doing business through Instagram has received great development. Shops, confectioners, psychologists and everyone create their own page where they offer services, post photos of goods and interact with customers. Accounts are not only for small companies for which this is still the only platform for interaction. Global brands also have their own pages on the web, which they use for advertising campaigns and to increase brand loyalty.
Youtube
YouTube is a video hosting with elements of a social network. The name comes from the English words you - you, you and tube - pipe. Earlier in America, the pipe was a colloquial name for old convex TVs, similar to how old TVs and TVs are generally called “boxes” in Russian.
Users of the site can upload their own videos of any length, as well as watch other people's videos, subscribe to "channels" that produce and upload videos in order to keep abreast of new published videos. In addition, users can add comments, create their own playlists with their favorite videos and thematic selections from other channels on their channel. Also rate the video by like, dislike and comment, write comments to it.
With the ease of watching, downloading and interacting with videos, the site has become the most popular video hosting site and one of the most popular sites in the world. There you can watch not only videos of amateur authors, but also recordings of television programs that they upload themselves TV channels to increase audience reach. Also films, clips, trailers for new films, news, educational and entertainment programs. Also video blogs about people's lives, videos with recipes, tutorials for learning and a variety of video content.
The video hosting company started in California in 2005. The first video that was uploaded to the service is an amateur video of one of the developers, his video from the zoo. It is still available for viewing.
Already in 2006, Youtube was bought by the giant company Google. Since then, the service has become more active, attracting millions of new users every year who watch or upload videos.
Functions
In addition to the basic functions of interaction with simple videos, there are a few more extras:
- Monetization. In order to earn money on each show of your video (money comes from ads that are shown before, after or in the middle of the video), you need to reach 1,000 subscribers who will watch 4,000 hours of video on the channel, and also be of legal age.
- Community tab. With it, a user who has 1,000 subscribers can leave a post with photos and links in the subscription feed. It is usually used by bloggers to additionally notify the user about the release of a new video, since the video may not always appear in the user's subscription feed due to Youtube's internal algorithms and service failures.
- Plots tab. It is similar to stories on Instagram and serves to additionally promptly notify subscribers about how things are progressing on the channel.
- panoramic videos. Thanks to this feature, the user can upload videos to the service that were shot with a special camera. It allows you to see everything in 360 degrees. The user can change the viewing angle by turning the phone, as well as turning the head if watching a video with glasses virtual reality.
Live broadcasts. Just like on Instagram, here you can broadcast live, then save them on the channel, communicate via broadcasts with viewers, or record videos about current events.
In addition, the user can change the quality of the video he is watching in order to be able to watch videos at low Internet speeds without delays. Also recently appeared the function of increasing the speed of the video up to 2 times. A specific user can increase the video speed by a quarter, half, three quarters or two times in order to spend one and a half or 2 times less time watching the required video.
TikTok
TikTok is a social network that allows you to create short videos inside the application to music available in the application's audio library, as well as record live broadcasts for quick communication with viewers and leave comments under the posts of other users. Due to the fact that the audience is growing very quickly, the application also made it to the list of the most popular social networks.
The network was launched in September 2016 in China. Now it is the most popular short video platform in China. Gradually gaining popularity in other countries of the world. The application has a large number of downloads, the number of its users is increasing exponentially. Now there are about half a billion users from different countries peace.
It is worth noting that the majority of TikTok's audience are teenagers who record dance videos to popular music and thus gain approval from or interact with peers.
In addition, the application has analogues in which you can also create videos and upload them to the application in order to communicate with other users. One of them is Likee. The app is only available in App Store for iOS devices.
Functions
Initially, the application became popular due to the fact that it was possible to create short videos for popular songs and add various effects that are quite simple, but interesting for users who are not used to video editing. For example, you could add wings, fireworks, change the color of the video, change the voice, and so on.
After that, the number of filters for videos increased, and many more songs were added to the audio library. In addition, challenges have become common in the application - videos of the same format that are recorded by different people.
You can reply to another user's video with your own video, or create video pairings when there are two videos that stand vertically next to each other and users interact as if they were one video.
In contact with
VKontakte is a Russian social network headquartered in St. Petersburg. The site is available in almost 100 languages, but is especially popular among users from the countries of the former USSR. With the help of this social network, you can share photos and videos with friends, leave messages and posts on the wall, communicate in interest groups, follow the life of bloggers, stars and ordinary users.
In addition, you can listen to music and play browser games alone or with your friends. In terms of functionality and content, the social network is similar to Facebook, but for many users, the VKontakte interface seems much simpler. In addition, VC does not require additional application on mobile in order to communicate.
Also, VKontakte has a much stronger and more developed Russian-speaking community than in a similar social network in America. And the abundance of content understandable language attracts users from the CIS countries.
Like a foreign site, VKontakte was originally a social network in which students and graduates of Russian universities communicated. The site positioned itself as a platform for quick and convenient communication, finding friends and tried to be modern and try things that were previously inaccessible to Runet users. Now it is the most popular social network in Russia.
Now it is one of the most popular sites in the post-Soviet space. There are almost a billion registered users from all over the world. Registration on the site is free and available by phone number. Linking a page to a number is one of the security requirements to prevent attackers from taking over the user's page and turning it into a platform for sending spam, as well as malicious links and fraud on behalf of this person.
Initially, the social network was available to students and graduates of recent years from Russian universities. However, in order to register, it was necessary to receive an invitation from a user who already has a profile on the network, and then indicate his real name and surname. However, registration was soon opened and an advertising campaign was launched in order to attract new users. Since then, the social network VKontakte has only been developing and gaining popularity.
Functions
The functionality of the social network VKontakte is similar to what Western Facebook offers, since the networks have the same model. There is a user page. He can add other users as friends, create his own audio and video library from files that have already been uploaded by other users, or upload his own. You can share photos, videos, leave posts on the wall with yourself or with users, comment on everything, add and create groups and communities of interest.
Thanks to the subscriptions feed, the user can see everything that his friends post, as well as the communities to which he is subscribed.
Due to the fact that any user can add music and videos there, there are a lot of songs, films, and videos on VKontakte. However, if the copyright holder complains, they will be removed from there.
The site has the ability to add history, create group chats. Often the site adds updates with new features.
Twitter is a social network for exchanging short messages and small media files with users. The name comes from English to tweet - to tweet, chat, which is why the logo of the social network is a bird. The format of this social network is called a microblog, the user does not pay for publishing posts and reading their subscriptions in the feed.
Twitter was created by Jack Dorsey in 2006, after which Twitter began to rapidly gain popularity, as at that time it was the fastest and most convenient way to share information and posts with users. However, initially the social network had a limit on the number of characters that can be written in one message - 140. Later, the developers increased this number to 280 characters.
Now the service has almost half a million registered accounts. This and ordinary users, and the stars that use it like fast way transmitting information to your fans, answering their questions and expressing your opinion about current events. There are also accounts of brands and music groups.
Basically, Twitter is used from the phone through a fairly convenient mobile application, but it is possible to access it from a computer or in mobile version in the browser on your phone.
Functions
With the help of microblogging, users can leave short messages, attach photos or videos to posts, comment, repost and follow other users in order to see their posts in their feed and interact with them. In addition, you can like, block the user from yourself. It is possible to maintain a private blog, which will be seen only by a limited number of users or no one at all.
Pinterest is a social service. In it, users can add images to collections by theme and share them with other users. The main difference from Instagram is that Pinterest is a network where very aesthetic pictures of any thematic orientation are thrown off. So, there are images of clothes, cities, food, as well as a selection of paintings and photos of stars. In addition, users often post their drawings, tattoos, and more there.
Pinterest is used by many as a source of inspiration. It can be compared with Google images, there are also a lot there, but they are of higher quality, selected by users and worked out.
conclusions
As you can see, with the development of social networks, the possibilities for each person are now almost limitless. A person can develop himself and his abilities, turn his profile into a business platform or run his own blog and develop on it.
However, you should never forget about security on the Internet, as well as the fact that in addition to social networks, there is real life that needs to be developed and improved with no less diligence than virtual page online.
Unfortunately, dependence on social networks, the Internet, likes, positive comments from complete strangers is too common. And an overly reverent attitude to the social network, the substitution of real life for a virtual one leads to depression, the development of complexes and can seriously disrupt the psyche.
When registering in any social network, be clearly aware that it will take you a lot of time that could be spent on self-development, and you should also understand that social networks entertain as much as they upset. Make a promise to yourself in advance not to worry about stupid people online, clearly limit your social media visits per day and try to spend time online not only for fun, but also with benefit - subscribe to interesting and informative blogs that will broaden your horizons and allow you to become more social and active person.
Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and YouTube top the rankings of social networks in the world, but users from Russia (and other post-Soviet countries such as Belarus, Kazakhstan and Ukraine) often prefer regional replacements for these platforms.
And this difference in popularity may have great importance for companies that use such sites for advertising, as this can completely change the marketing strategy (which is used in other parts of the world). In addition, social networks, whose rating in Russian-speaking countries differs from the global one, can provide great opportunities for international communication. Currently, eight social networks are the most popular.
"In contact with"
VK (formerly known as VKontakte) is now the most widespread social network in Russia, with over 46.6 million monthly visitors. Undoubtedly, this resource leads the rating of social networks in the post-Soviet space.
There are many interesting opinions about this site, but it can best be described as a combination between Facebook and a data sharing service. Like Facebook, each user has a profile and can search and friend other users to see their status updates, new photos and videos.
Along with these traditional features, users can also upload audio and video files of any kind and share these resources with other people. This used to be scrutinized as it crossed legal lines from time to time, however recent reports indicate that VK is now working with major record labels. This made it possible to launch a subscription service that allows you to legally share media files. That is why VKontakte has been leading the rating of social networks in Russia for several years.
"Classmates"
While VKontakte may be the most popular service among younger users (aged 18-35), OK (originally Odnoklassniki) is more commonly preferred among social networks. This service has more than 31.5 million monthly visitors, with a larger percentage (69%) being women. This platform, by the way, was the first in Russia and, one might say, gave rise to such a phenomenon as social networks. The rating of sites in this category will always remain incomplete without mentioning it.
Like VK, OK allows users to create profiles, search for friends, and share status updates and pictures. The main purpose of creating the platform is to communicate with classmates and friends with whom users could lose touch many years ago, so the search parameters are quite detailed.
In addition, the site has a feature that provides information about who visited your page (regardless of whether you are their friend). To view the profiles of other users, there is an anonymity feature that you must pay for (to enable "Stealth Mode").
"My world"
Perhaps the best universally recognized analogue of the Russian "My World" is Google+. Both of these services are an extension of the ISP Email(in the case of "My World" - mail.ru). My World has struggled to find its own unique niche on a broader level, but the popularity of the network is not that great. At the same time, more than 16.6 million people use this service every month to share images, music and videos, as well as to play games and meet new friends, which is why it is included in the social network rankings. The My World web search strategy contains several options that are not available in other platforms.
Social networks, whose rating is high all over the world, have not bypassed the post-Soviet space either. Although Facebook is not the most popular site in Russia, its popularity has definitely begun to grow - now it receives more than 21.6 million Russian-speaking visitors per month. This is not surprising since Facebook is constantly changing its platform to better suit user needs.
Analysts believe that one of the reasons why Facebook is becoming increasingly popular in Russia is business communication. According to some sources, more than 30% of business discussions in Russia take place on Facebook. Therefore, it would not be surprising if this platform over time will top the rankings
"Livejournal"
Livejournal is a blogging platform that has been around since 1999 but has not been used in most of the world since then. This trend is far from true in Russia, where over 15.1 million users visit LiveJournal every month. This figure is more than half of the total site traffic.
Twitter is another classic social media site that does well in Russia. While it doesn't get as many unique monthly visitors as the other services on this list (around 7.7 million visitors per month), it boasts a following for every user. So while Twitter may not be a mainstay for most Russian social media users, those who choose to use it do so on a large scale.
Rutube and YouTube
Rutube is essentially Russia's answer to YouTube, a social media platform focused on video sharing for content of all types. Even though this service has not reached the same reach as YouTube, it has collected a lot of content from a wide variety of users.
Rutube hosts both licensed content and user uploads. The vast majority of downloads are in Russian. This high percentage of Russian content makes the platform an incredibly valuable resource for those trying to learn the language.
The first social media platform on this list - Instagram - has become extremely popular in the last few years, and its popularity in Russia is no exception. Instagram is rapidly moving up the rankings, and today has 12.3 million users per month (of which 77% are young women).
This shift in popularity is largely due to the cross-posting between Instagram and other platforms where users can use great photo editing tools. This allows you to enhance and capture a photo and then post it to both Instagram and other popular social media sites.
While the core features of Instagram continue to be easy to access and use, there are several options for tools and third party applications which most users don't even know about. It is expected that this platform will soon lead the popularity of social networks in most countries.
Concluding this review, it is worth noting that the success of such unique social networks as VK and OK in Russia and neighboring countries may surprise those who are used to Facebook, Twitter and Instagram, which have a complete monopoly in the world.
There is definitely whole line benefits from sites that target a specific user base, whether geographically (as in these examples) or based on demographics (age of users).