Society has become increasingly busy as each year passes. Not only is it difficult to update your family on your own personal changes but also trying to keep track of everyone else is even more difficult. That’s why social media is a huge necessity for millions of people. It’s so convenient to be able to share your memories and positive happenings with those closest to you at the press of a button. So in this article I will give you 5 social media platforms which have a huge focus on sharing content.
No.1 Instagram
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Features:
- Easy to share videos and photos
- Simple to use
- Easy to follow your favourite creators or friends and family
- Great marketing choice for small businesses
- Easy to upload content directly from your phone
Starting with one of the most popular Apps in today’s market, Instagram saw a meteoric rise in popularity once it was first announced and brought to light just how useful this type of App could be. Instagram still remains as the go to media sharing App thanks to it’s ease of use and handy features.
Some of these features include being able to links your phone contacts to easily follow your family and friends, uploading photos and videos directly from your phone and even being able to message people directly without any extra cost.
Those of you looking to market your business or become content creators would want to take advantage of some other features. Such as being able to post longer videos (above 60 seconds), making use of the Insta Reels to reach people on a worldwide basis, connecting with similar businesses or creators and even making use of Instagram’s tags to maximise your visibility.
Instagram was and continues to be an incredibly useful App with it’s massive amount of features and how users can quickly gain popularity. Instagram s definitely worth your time, for those of you looking to share photos privately and to anyone wanting to reach a large variety of people.
Instagram
No.2 Tik Tok
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- Simple and easy to navigate
- Easy to share videos
- Easy to follow your favourite creators
- Great for content creators
- Easy to upload content directly from your phone
Tik Tok is the current master of short form videos. Whether you want to follow new trends, dance routines, or even look up cooking techniques, Tik Tok has a huge variety of content for you to enjoy and consume in literal seconds.
Exploring this App is as easy as swiping up and down. With it’s handy For You page, you can get a constant stream of videos without the need to follow any specific creators. The best part about this, is the more videos you like the more this page updates to your tastes, giving you more of what you want to watch and less of what you don’t. Better yet if you have any creators you want to keep up to date with, you can follow them and have them appear on a separate page along with anyone else you follow.
When it comes to sharing your videos, it’s incredibly simple and Tik Tok gives you plenty of ways to edit your video. You can even pause a live recording multiple times to add extra effects. Tik Tok also makes use of the tags system so it’s super easy to get your newest video uploaded and viewed by thousands of people.
Tik Tok is without a doubt the most popular video sharing App in the past 3 years. Thanks to it’s ease of use and just how quickly people can upload content. Tik Tok is great for creators and consumers, you will find something to enjoy and will soon find that those 30 seconds videos will cause you to lose hours of your days without you realising it.
Tik Tok
No.3 Snapchat
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- Lots of Photo filters
- Easy to share photos
- Save photos that are special to you
- Video chat with your friends
- Editing tools for your photos and videos
Snapchat is one of the more personal App I will discuss today. Even going so far to add Friendship Profiles so you and your friends can look back on all the moments and memories you have shared together. You can also see what things you can in common or even compare your astrological compatibility. How crazy is that!?
Snapchat is super accessible for creators too, simply tap a button, take a photo, edit the photo and finally upload it. You can go nuts and add a bunch of filters too, if you want that extra sparkle, or maybe add something a little spooky in the background or even give yourself cat ears, there are a huge variety of effects to express yourself with.
Another handy feature is with the Snapchat Stories. This is a great way to keep up to date with the current new stories and can be shared amongst your friends, or you can watch some Snapchat original TV shows. You can even start a video chat with you friends and watch those shows at the same time. It’s a great way to experience different things together.
For anyone looking to have a more in depth friendship oriented App, Snapchat is a great choice. Even if it’s just to show off a bunch of silly selfies or to discuss something a little more serious, Snapchat has so much to offer that you are sure to find something that will make it the go to App for you and your friends.
Snapchat
No.4 Truth Social
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- Up and coming App
- Great way to keep in contact
- Much more personalised than the usual Apps
- Search for people’s opinions that match your own
Truth Social is an interesting App with a focus on a person’s speech and viewpoints more so than viral videos. It’s also one of the newest Apps on this list and as of writing it currently only available to a select few with thousands of users being kept on a waiting list.
Truth Social has a unique idea in trying to interact a community as a whole. By grouping people together based on their beliefs it tries to cater the content and discussion to that specific group’s tastes. If done right this can be a highly effectively App and a great way to meet new people who share your interests and ideology.
Truth Social has you create your won profile and include a lot more of your unique personality that almost any other App in recent memory. It almost feels like a dating App but for your thoughts, matching other people who share similar ideas to then get you chatting together. You can also use the Truth Search feature to delve deeper into this process.
As mentioned Truth Social is a very new to market App but it is definitely one to keep your eye on in the future. So why not get yourself on the waiting list for what looks to be a very different type of of sharing platform. One for your thoughts instead of photos.
Truth Social
No.5 GETTR
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Features:
- Offers freedom to speak your mind
- Promotes live streams as well as uploading photos and videos
- Constant updates and new features
- Boasts an uncensored platform
GETTR is another new App and oddly enough also looks to allow it’s users to speak their mind without any worry of censorship. Explicitly stating that it will never suspend or censoor your views or posts. Beyond this GETTR offers a lot of features from day one.
GETTR’s want for people to express themselves allows users to create much longer written posts than other social media Apps. Not only this but it’s already allowing people to live stream for up to 60 minutes at a time and giving each video post a limit of 3 minutes instead of the usual 60 seconds.
Another huge plus side to GETTR is how they are constantly looking at feedback from their users to add new features or improve their experience. Such as raising the limit of uploading photos from 1 photo per post to 6 photos. You can even edit these photos within the App itself instead of having to do it beforehand. GETTR also gives users the ability to contact their family and friends via direct messages.
GETTR is a very promising App and while it may have a few hiccups due to only being a few months old, the changes and updates made in such a short time already, gives me a lot of optimism for the future of this App. So if you want a more uncongested App that is on the rise, GETTR is the one for you.
GETTR
So there you have it. 5 Apps all about sharing your thoughts, memories and viewpoints. It’s impressive to see how each App offers something different and even if they do share some similar features, they all go about it a different way. I hope you enjoy this selection of Apps, I know the newer Apps especially intrigued me.
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