Social Networking Sites

Facebook - Facebook is definitely more about content in bulk. Here is where you can post pages and pages of insightful thoughts on politics, lifestyle, music and more. This is both a good thing and a bad thing. Facebook seems to be the most driven by "advertising", with Facebook ads being a very standard thing now. You can't scroll down your news feed without seeing ads all over your sidebar and now even in between posts. Facebook is definitely an important tool for musicians and music lovers alike though,

Twitter - Twitter moves to an alarmingly fast rate. With such short posts and many people following more and more its very easy for tweets to get lost in the mix. Sometimes photos on Twitter can really catch the users eye and pull them in to your tweet. Twitter is similarly used to Facebook, discussing anything from music to politics, however it is much harder to have full on group discussions on there. You can only tweet at one or two people at a time due to character limits.

Tumblr - Tumblr is certainly an unique site. Tumblr is similar to Instagram in that is is heavily operated via mobile devices. Much of Tumblr is "reblogging", similar to retweeting on Twitter. Tumblr has become a breeding ground for social activists of all kinds, using the websites hip users to spread the word of whatever social causes they deem important. Imagery is very important on Tumblr with reblogging, using eye catching images to gain more and more momentum behind a post and more reblogs.


Instagram - Instagram is all based on photos. Instagram is the most narcissistic of all the four social networking sites. Users publish photos of their life to Instagram - often times portraying the highlights of a users life. Some users are what I call selfie obsessed, and post many photos of themselves to attract attention to themselves, both platonic and to attract others.