Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, Instagram, and LinkedIn are popular social media and professional networking platforms. Facebook allows uploading photos and videos, status updates, and connecting with others. YouTube enables sharing videos and has over 800 million monthly users. Twitter is a microblogging site that allows short text messages (tweets) and has over 500 million tweets sent per day. Instagram is a photo and video sharing app that allows editing and organizing posts. LinkedIn is a professional networking site that enables creating profiles, connecting with colleagues, and posting jobs.

1. Facebook is an online social networking
service. It’s name comes from a colloquialism
for the directory given to students at some
American universities. Facebook was founded
on February 4, 2004 by Mark Zuckerberg.
Features: Uploading photos, videos, status
update, check info, chatting, video calling,
following, like, comment, apps, etc.
Facebook facts:
I. Monthly active facebook users: 1.4 billion.
II. In everyday almost 350
million photos are
III. uploaded in to facebook.
IV. Every sixty seconds 2,93,000
status are posted on facebook.
V. Average amount of time a
person uses
VI. facebook per month: 15 hours 33 minutes.

2. YouTube is a video-sharing website, created by
three former PayPal employees Chad Hurley, Steve
Chen, and Jawed Karim in February 2005 and
owned by Google since late 2006. The company is
based in San Bruno, California.
Features:
Video playback, uploading, sharing, localization,
April fools, etc.
YouTube facts:
I. The first YouTube video was entitled "Me at
the zoo", and shows co-founder Jawed Karim
at the San Diego Zoo.
II. The site has 800 million+ monthly unique
visitors!
III. An average internet user spends 15 minutes
(900 seconds) on YouTube daily.
IV. First video hits 1 billion views – “Gangnam
Style” by PSY (Dec,2012)

3. Twitter is an online social networking and
micro blogging service that enables users to
send and read short 140-character text
messages, called "tweets“. Twitter was
created in March 2006 by Jack Dorsey.
Twitter facts:
I. Twitter experiences more than 500
million
II. tweets a day.
III. KatyPerry is the most followed Twitter
account with more than 51 million
followers.
IV. Ellen DeGeneres received most retweets
in
V. March this year.
VI. 70% of Twitter of accounts are outside the
US.
VII. China is the country with the most Twitter
users with 35.5 million.

4. Instagram[a] is an American photo and video
sharing social networking service founded by Kevin
Systrom and Mike Krieger.
I. In April 2012, Facebook Inc. acquired the
service for approximately US$1 billion in cash
and stock.
II. The app allows users to upload media that can
be edited with filters and organized
by hashtags and geographical tagging. Posts
can be shared publicly or with pre-approved
followers. Users can browse other users'
content by tags and locations and view trending
content.
III. Users can like photos and follow other users to
add their content to a personal feed.[10]
IV. Instagram was originally distinguished by only
allowing content to be framed in a square

5. LinkedIn is an American business and employment-oriented online
service that operates via websites and mobile apps. Launched on May
5, 2003,] the platform is primarily used for professional networking and
career development, and allows job seekers to post their CVs and
employers to post jobs.
I. As of 2015, most of the company's revenue came from selling
access to information about its members to recruiters and sales
professionals. Since December 2016, it has been a wholly owned
subsidiary of Microsoft.
II. As of September 2021, LinkedIn has 774+ million registered
members from over 200 countries and territories.
III. LinkedIn allows members (both workers and employers) to
create profiles and "connect" with each other in an online social
network which may represent real-world professional relationships.
Members can invite anyone (whether an existing member or not) to
become a "connection".
IV. LinkedIn can also be used to organize offline events, join groups,
write articles, publish job postings, post photos and videos, and
more.

6. Thank you
for being with us…
The Networkers