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Instagram: Instagram is a mobile application that can also be accessed from a desktop and any internet based platform. It is a social media source that allows users to edit and post photos with captions for their followers to see. Instagram was bought by Facebook, another social media site. Facebook helped Instagram grow even more than it was already rapidly growing because of its well-known name and brand. Instagram became popular in 2011 where their user count jumped to a whopping ten million in just two months of being an application. Instagram is placed at number three overall on the Apple Store for free applications. (Apple Store). Instagram is named the seventh most popular social media service as of August 2017 with seven hundred million users. Instagram has become a platform for fitness, body positive, nutrition, motherhood, self love, etc. blogs. Instagram is also a way for people who live near or far from each other to stay connected and up to date on the lives of their friends and families. Instagram is also a way for companies big and small to show their products and merchandise to the followers. Instagram has added advertisements for companies to gain followers based on things that people search making it easier for Instagram users to find products that interest them and contribute to their daily life.

Snapchat: Snapchat is a mobile application that was created in September 2011. Snapchat was originally created as a platform where people could send direct photos and messages to their friends that would only last up to ten seconds before disappearing forever. The concept was that any user could add their friends and send whatever they wanted without the content of the message or picture getting out because after the allotted time the content was inaccessible. Snapchat also has other features, such as being able to pay people through Snapcash and being able to see friends locations if they allow it based on their maps that are linked to Snapchat. These features are unique because other social media platforms do not contain them on their applications. Snapchat is rated rated number fifteen as of August 2017 with just about two hundred and fifty five million users. Snapchat is also rated number six for free applications on the Apple Store for iPhones. Snapchat has also recently added media outlets to their application for users to keep up to date on the news and tabloids. Some of the more popular and well-known outlets are Cosmopolitan, Daily Mail, The Washington Post, ESPN, The New York Times, etc. These outlets are a way for users to stay on top of events going on around the world without directly diving into the news.

Pinterest: Pinterest is a mobile and web application that is used to discover information. Pinterest consists of 'Do It Yourself' crafts, baking/cooking recipes, hair/makeup ideas, etc. There are plenty of life hacks that Pinterest has to offer. Pinterest lies Pinterest is ranked at number fifteen for free applications on the Apple Store for iPhones. Pinterest is also ranked at number seventeen as of August 2017 with one hundred seventy five million users. Pinterest allows its users to search things and pin them to boards that they have created for events and different aspects of their lives. Commonly made Pinterest boards involve wedding idea boards, hair idea boards, make up idea boards, crafting, and cooking boards. These boards allow users to pin and later review for further ideas and execution of the products. Users can also follow other users and boards similar to their own to get further ideas about the topic they are interested in. These boards and users they follow later lead them to other similar boards which broadens their search for the perfect anything. Businesses are also allowed to use Pinterest for promoting their companies. The companies can then link their websites leading the users to continue to search for products from those companies. Many users on Pinterest do not even realize that they are clicking a link when they click one of the pins therefore leading them to a whole website full of ideas they can use to explore things that spark their interests.

Facebook: Facebook as launched in 2004 and is the number one social media platform with two billion forty seven million users as of 2017. Facebook is ranked at number four on the free applications on the Apple Store for iPhone users. Facebook is the parent company to Instagram and they also recently tried to buy snapchat and failed. Facebook has a 'branch' called Facebook Messenger that stems off of Facebook as a instant messaging aspect. Facebook is a way for people all over the world to stay connected based on pictures, statuses, and wall posts. Facebook allows its users to create events and let friends know what they are doing on a daily basis. Facebook also allows popular pages, venues, and companies to create events in hopes that the users will want to attend events creating an influx of money. Facebook makes most of, if not all their revenue from companies paying them to allow their advertisements to be shown to users that have searched those products before.

Tumblr: Tumblr is a social media website and application that is mainly used to blog. People have the stereotypical blogs where they blog about their lives through words and people have picture blogs where their page is splattered with pictures of things that describe their lives most accurately. Tumblr was founded in February of 2007 and its parent company was originally Yahoo and just recently became Oath Incorporated. Tumblr allows people to express themselves through posts about their lives that their followers and other Tumblr users can see, like, comment on, and reblog. When people reblog a users post this post becomes accessible to all users that are following the reblogger and so on.

VSCO: VSCO is a social media application that allows its users to post pictures and follow other users. This application is much like Instagram in the way that the users can edit, post, comment, like, and share photos with their followers, friends, and fans. These photos that are posted can be linked to other coal media accounts and can be seen by anyone that has the link to a users profile.