Speaking of overseas social software, the first thing that is to bear is the veteran Facebook Facebook. Facebook was launched in 2004, and its name comes from the student roster that started the new school year. It was created by Mark Zuckerberg with his Harvard roommates Eduardo Savilin , Andrew McCollum, Dustin Moscowitz and Chris Hughes . At first, Facebook was limited to Harvard student registration, but soon it expanded to Boston area, Ivy League, Stanford and other universities. Facebook stipulates that people over the age of 13 can register for membership on Facebook, and users must register to browse Facebook. When registering, Facebook requires creating a profile and adding other users as friends and exchanging information, including automatic notifications when they update their profile. Facebook's functions mainly include graffiti walls, gifts, markets, pokes, events, music, videos, games, comments, etc., but they cannot enter the country for various reasons.
Twitter is a website in the United States that has online social network services and Weibo services. Its status is equivalent to the global version of Sina Weibo . It was launched by Jack Dorsey on July 15, 2006. It has been popular all over the world since its launch. In 2012, Twitter had more than 500 million registered users and posted more than 340 million Weibo posts every day. The system has to process more than 1.6 billion search queries every day. Since its launch, Twitter has become one of the top ten most used websites on the Internet and is known as "Internet SMS". Twitter is called in Chinese and Twitter . It uses wireless networks and communication technology to communicate instantly. It is a typical application of Weibo. Its operation is fast and simple. The platform only allows users to send messages of 140 characters, which are also called "tweets".
YouTube
YouTube (YuTube) was co-founded by Stephen Chen, Chad Henry and Karim (formerly Paypal employee) in 2005. It is the world's largest video website with a large amount of traffic and audience, and more than 1.325 billion people are using youtube. Currently, 300 hours of videos are uploaded to YouTube every minute every day, and the number of views per second is about 5 hours of video content. Its power is what shows everything. Use the YouTube app to easily subscribe to your favorite channels, create playlists, edit and upload videos, express your thoughts through comments or sharing, cast videos to your TV, and more. On YouTube you can see: technology bloggers, domestic programs, entertainment variety shows, official and folk videos, and many domestic program videos can also be watched for free on YouTube.
Instagram was created and launched by Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger in October 2010. It is an application that provides online photo sharing, video sharing and social networking services. The program quickly became popular as soon as it was launched. By April 2012, the website had 100 million active users. Instagram allows users to take photos and videos and share them on various social networks such as Facebook, Weibo, QQ space sharing and Flickr sharing. The quality of Instagram filters is very high, and users don’t need too many skills to take high-quality (high-quality) photos. Not just taking photos, as a lightweight but very interesting app, Instagram has incorporated many social elements on the mobile terminal, including the establishment of friend relationships, replies, sharing and collection.
Tumblr
Tumblr is called Tang Bole in Chinese. It was founded in 2007. It is one of the largest microblog platforms and social networking websites in the world, and the ancestor of light blog websites. Tumblr is a new media form between traditional blogs and Weibo. It focuses on both expression and socialization, and personalized settings, making it one of the most popular social networking sites among young people at present. Tumblr allows users to publish various things, including text, photos, quotes, links, chats, music and videos. Its functions are actually not much different from those of domestic blogs.People can find people on Tumblr who are the same interests as themselves but do not know each other in real life.
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Pinterest was founded in December 2009 by Ben Silberman, Paul Shara and Evan Sharp. It is the world's largest picture social sharing website. Pinterest (Pin+Interest), means to use pushpin to pin things you are interested in on the PinBoard. Users can add and manage their image collections according to the theme and share them with friends. The bottom of the page is automatically loaded without the need for page turning functions, allowing users to constantly discover new images. Popular categories are travel, automobiles, food, movies, humor, home design, sports, fashion and art.
Snapchat
Snapchat is a picture-sharing social networking website in the United States. It was founded in 2011 by several Stanford University students. Users can take photos, record videos, write texts and pictures on Snapchat, and send them to their friends list on the app. These photos and videos are called "snaps". When sending snaps, set a time limit for friends to access the snaps. This is the most special feature of this app, called "burning after reading". Many teenagers use this app to share and browse all kinds of stupid and cute photos of fools and cute people, and they don’t have to worry about being embarrassed afterwards (because they are burned after reading). Jan Koum, the founder of
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WhatsAPP, was born in Ukraine. He found that there is no other convenient way to contact people from other countries except for expensive calls. So I used the chat platform to create this APP. Now, WhatsAPP remains the most used family contact information worldwide. It uses the Internet to transmit text messages, and can use contact information on smartphones to find contacts who also use this software. In addition to sending text, you can also transfer pictures, recordings, videos, user's location and contact information.
SKYPE
Skype was the best video chat communication software on the market around 2008, and later it was acquired by Microsoft . Microsoft was also the parent company of instant messaging software 10 years ago, MSN. I believe many people have used MSN. After Skype was acquired, it perfectly imported the records of MSN contacts, and added its own multinational stored value phone and powerful video capabilities. In addition to online chat, SKYPE can also be used for voice and video. Its biggest function is to bind phone calls to facilitate contact with peers. If you want to call guests and friends from a foreign country, you might as well try SKYPE, but you need to purchase a recharge card before you can use it.
LinkedIn is a professional social networking website in the United States, founded in December 2002 and launched in Monica, California on May 5, 2003. LinkedIn has more than 200 users in more than 200 countries and regions, and has English, French, German , Italian , Portuguese , Spanish , Dutch , Swedish , Romanian , russian Turkey , japan, Czech , Polish , korea, Indonesian , Malay and other languages. According to Quantcast report, LinkedIn has 21.4 million independent visitors per month in the United States and 47.6 million independent visitors per month worldwide. LinkedIn is the world's largest workplace social platform, which mainly updates the relevant information and business activities of various companies. The most attractive thing about LinkedIn is the B2B sales field, which can help you find the career information of your target customers at a professional level. International students must have a LinkedIn account when looking for a job in the United States.
Flickr
Flickr, a picture sharing app under Yahoo, was founded by Ludicorp in February 2004, a web service suite and online community (the predecessor of Flickr). Yahoo acquired Flickr in 2005. Flickr provides comprehensive, first-class and efficient picture services, including uploading and storing pictures, classification, tagging (Tag), image search, etc. In addition to sharing private photos on Flickr, Flickr can also serve as a storage space for online pictures. Its innovative online community tool can tag personal photos (Tags) and browse them in this way.According to Yahoo, in June 2011, Flickr had a total of 510,000 registered members and 800,000 independent visitors. According to the August 2011 Flickr report, Flickr stores more than 600 million images, and this number is still growing steadily.
Reddit is an entertainment, social and news website. Registered users can publish text or links on the website, making it basically an electronic bulletin board system. The content category on the website is called "subreddit", covering all topics, the hottest and freshest topics, from which everyone finds topics of interest and discusses with other colleagues. You can also vote for each post, and the post that gets the highest vote will appear on the homepage. Reddit AMAs is another cool feature of Reddit. AMA stands for "AskMe Anything", so there are often celebrities and public figures interacting with everyone here.
Quora
Quora is an online Q&A website founded in June 2009 by former Facebook employees Charlie Cheever and Adam D' Angelo. Quora brings together many questions and answers, allowing users to collaborate on editing questions and answers. Quora's creation goal is to "mine out wiki knowledge that is not available on the Internet and give it strong social media attributes." It is very similar to the domestic Zhihu , and is equivalent to a knowledge market, a platform for people to share, learn and display.
Line
LINE is an instant messaging tool developed by LINE Co., Ltd., a subsidiary of the South Korean Naver Group, and has been widely praised in the Japanese, Korean and Southeast Asian markets. There is also a considerable number of users among the Chinese in the United States, but the user base in Europe and the United States is slightly niche. Line can enjoy high-quality calls anytime, anywhere and for free when activate data traffic or connect to Wi-Fi, and can also use special effects and filters to get more fun during video calls. It is worth mentioning that Line's "chat emoticon maps" have more than 250 types. You can use the included stickers and emoticons to send more cute messages, making Line a tool for mood communication.
VK
VK is the second largest social networking website in Europe, and the number of views of this website is second only to Facebook. The website has several language options, and Russian-speaking users around the world are particularly popular, especially in: Russia, Ukraine, Azerbaijan , Kazakhstan , Moldova , Belarus , and Israel. Like other social networks, the site allows users to leave messages, contact information publicly or privately, create groups, public pages and events, share and tag images, audio and videos, and browser-based games. As of January 2014, VK has at least 239 million users. It is the second most visited website in Russia, second only to Yandex. According to eBizMBA ranking data, it is the eighth most popular social networking site in the world.
