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Social media platforms (Group 3) - 233.01DE Social Networks - Facebook, LinkedIn, MySpace. Social networking websites allow users to build web pages featuring personal portfolios and interests. These pages are used to connect with friends, colleagues and other users in order to share media, content and communications.

Bookmarking Sites - StumbleUpon, Pinterest. Bookmarking sites allow you to save, organize and manage links to various websites and resources around the internet. Most allow you to "tag" your links to make them easy to search and share

Social News - Reddit, Digg. Social News platforms allow people to post various news items or links to outside articles and then allows it's users to "vote" on the items. The voting is the core social aspect as the items that get the most votes are displayed the most prominently. The community decides which news items get seen by more people.

Media Sharing - YouTube, Twitch, Photobucket, Flickr. Media sharing sites allow you to upload and share various media such as pictures and video. Most services have additional social features such as profiles, commenting, etc.

Microblogging - Twitter, Google+, Wordpress. Microblogging sites focus on short updates that are pushed out to anyone subscribed to receive the updates.

Blog Comments and Forums - Tumblr, Blogger, 4Chan. Online blogs and forums allow members to hold conversations by posting messages, sometimes anonymously. Blog comments are similar except they are attached to blogs and usually the discussion centers around the topic of the blog post.