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Exploring Alternatives: Top 10 Social Media Platforms Beyond Facebook (Part 1)
Looking to revamp your online presence? Dive into these Top 10 social media platforms as alternatives to Facebook. Discover fresh and exciting experiences beyond the usual scroll.
Dive into the World of Alternatives: Top 10 Social Media Platforms Beyond Facebook
1. Instagram: Unleash Your Creativity
Get Instagram on your iOS device: Download Instagram for iPhone
Get Instagram on your Android device: Download Instagram
For those who love capturing and admiring beautiful photos, and having a personal space, try out Instagram, the most trendy and modern social media platform today. With approximately 400 million monthly users, Instagram is a part of the Facebook family.
With Instagram, you can easily snap photos and edit them with powerful and professional editing tools and filters. Instagram offers over 20 different filter options to transform your photos. Among them, Hudson, Inkwell, and 1977 are the most popular filters.
Once you've got the perfect shot, instantly share it on Instagram and across other social media platforms like Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr, and more.
2. Twitter
Download Twitter for Android: Get Twitter.
Download Twitter for iOS: Get Twitter for iOS.
Download Twitter for Winphone: Get
The next potential successor to Facebook is Twitter. Those who love foreign showbiz surely are familiar with this social network. Twitter is considered a paradise for updating world news and events.
Twitter allows users to upload photos, videos, and text with a limit of 140 characters. Thus, you'll never come across lengthy statuses or albums with hundreds of photos like on Facebook. Twitter also lacks a friend feature and only has Follow. This is the most distinct difference between Facebook and Twitter.
With Twitter, you can quickly update on world news and events. Twitter features like Twitter Trend help you know which trends are hot in the community, and hashtags, keywords in posts like #thevoiceUS, #trump, #iphone8... form a direct discussion network among people with shared interests.
You can also retweet (repost) posts to your timeline like the Share button on Facebook. With Twitter, users can immediately catch up with ongoing events and stay ahead of trends.
3. Pinterest
Download Pinterest for iOS: Get Pinterest for iOS.
Download Pinterest for Android: Get Pinterest for Android.
If you need to search for ideas and inspiration for anything, come to Pinterest, the third largest image and idea sharing community in the world. Just create a free account and step into the incredibly rich world of Pinterest. Rest assured because you can easily use Pinterest right from the first encounter.
On Pinterest, you'll create boards to pin content to. You can name the boards for easy management.
For example, if you're looking for design ideas for your café, just type 'café' or 'coffee' in the search box, and a plethora of beautiful café photos from around the world will appear for you to search for your favorite design models. When you find a favorite photo, click Pin it to pin the image to your board, just like the Share button on Facebook. Additionally, you can also upload your own photos, ideas to your board and share with the community.
4. Tumblr
Download Tumblr for Android: Get Tumblr for Android.
Download Tumblr for iOS: Get Tumblr for iOS.
Tumblr is a promising candidate to replace Facebook. Tumblr is often referred to as a combination of a microblogging platform and a social network.
With Tumblr, you can create a blog, post photos, videos... on your personal page like with Yahoo 360 or WordPress, and you can also re-blog posts from people you follow, similar to how Twitter users retweet to their timelines.
In addition, you can access a vast amount of information on the dashboard based on searches and the people you follow. Keywords on Tumblr work very smartly and will definitely lead you to the content you're looking for. You can follow artists, designers, singers, celebrities... to continuously receive new information and works from them.
In general, Tumblr is most suitable for those who enjoy reading, searching, and sharing information.
5. Google+
Download Google+ for Android: Get Google+ for Android.
Download Google+ for iOS: Get Google+ for iOS.
Google+ is a social network integrated into all other Google services, including Gmail, YouTube, and Blogger. Google+ is one of the fastest-growing social networks today.
Google+ allows users to create Circles with friends and categorize them into groups for easy management. You can share any content from photos, music, videos, article links... and choose which circle to share relevant content with.
Additionally, the Stream feature of Google+ helps you view posts from people in your circles and filter content as desired.
Here is part 1 of the article, Mytour has introduced to you 5 popular social networks that you can use as alternatives to Facebook. Instead of signing up for Facebook, you can use these social networks. Experience something new with these new social networks without having to spend hours logging into cluttered Facebook.
