Social media

Facebook is an American social networking service owned by the American technology conglomerate Meta Platforms. It was founded in 2004 by Mark Zuckerberg, along with his Harvard College roommates and fellow students Eduardo Saverin, Andrew McCollum, Dustin Moskovitz, and Chris Hughes. The name Facebook derives from the face book directories often given to American university students.

YouTube is an American online video sharing platform owned by Google. YouTube was founded on February 14, 2005, by Chad Hurley, Jawed Karim, and Steve Chen, who were former employees of PayPal. Headquartered in San Bruno, California, it is the second-most-visited website in the world, after Google itself. In January 2024, YouTube had reached more than 2.7billion monthly active users, who collectively consumed more than one billion hours of video content every day. , videos were being uploaded to the platform at a rate of more than 500 hours of content per minute, and , there were approximately

WhatsApp Messenger, commonly known simply as WhatsApp, is an American social media, instant messaging (IM), and Voice over IP (VoIP) service accessible via desktop and mobile app. Owned by Meta Platforms, the service allows users to send text messages, voice messages, and video messages, make voice and video calls, and share images, documents, user locations, and other content. The service requires a cellular mobile telephone number to register. WhatsApp was launched in May 2009. In January 2018, WhatsApp released a standalone business app called WhatsApp Business which can communicate with th

virtual online communities

social networking service from Russia

form of communication over the Internet

Tumblr ( ) is a microblogging and social media platform founded by David Karp in 2007 and is owned by American company Automattic. The service allows users to post multimedia and other content to a short-form blog. It was also noted for being socially progressive in the 2010s.

Rakuten Viber, commonly known as Viber, is a cross-platform voice over IP (VoIP) and instant messaging (IM) software application owned by the Japanese technology company Rakuten Group. The service is available as freeware for Android, iOS, Microsoft Windows, macOS and Linux.

thumb|A post (tweet) on the social network X (social network)|X (Twitter) with several hashtags colored in blue text. A hashtag is a metadata tag operator that is prefaced by the hash symbol, #. On social media, hashtags are used on microblogging and photo-sharing services–especially Twitter and Tumblr–as a form of user-generated tagging that enables cross-referencing of content by topic or theme. For example, a search within Instagram for the hashtag #flowers returns all posts that have been tagged with that term. After the initial hash symbol, a hashtag may include letters, numerals or other

free and open-source federated social networking project

instant messaging app developed by Meta Platforms

forms of media native to computers, computational, relying on computers for redistribution; e.g. telephones, computers, virtual worlds, website games, human-computer interface, computer animation, interactive computer installations

use of social media platforms and websites to promote a product or service

An influencer is an individual who has the capacity to shape the attitudes, behavior, or decisions of others through authority, knowledge, position, or the nature of the relationship with the audience. The term is used in various fields such as media, business, politics, religion, and communication, referring to influencers such as social media influencers, podcasters, public speakers, religious influencers, writers, and newsletter writers etc who have dedicated followings in various areas.

marketing strategy that uses existing social networks to promote a product

anxiety to miss information, opportunities, events, experiences, or decisions improving life

Odysee is an American decentralized video hosting platform, built on the LBRY blockchain. It positions itself as an alternative to mainstream services like YouTube, but with a focus on freedom of speech and decentralization.

someone who has become famous by means of the Internet

FaceApp is a photo and video editing application for iOS and Android developed by FaceApp Technology Limited, a company based in Cyprus. The app generates highly realistic transformations of human faces in photographs by using neural networks. The app can transform a face to make it smile, look younger, look older, or change gender.

use of natural language processing, text analysis and computational linguistics to identify and extract subjective information in source materials

personal introductory system whereby individuals can find and contact each other over the Internet to arrange a date

activity of the contribution of information to any media

viral photo of an egg posted on Instagram

small-format photographs affixed to card stock, popular in the mid-19th century

type of facial expression

Moltbook is an internet forum for artificial intelligence agents, launched on January 28, 2026, by entrepreneur Matt Schlicht. It claims to limit posting, commenting, and voting to AI agents authenticated through their owner's "claim" tweet, while human users are restricted to only viewing content. Initially, the platform lacked a mechanism to verify whether a poster is actually an AI agent or a human; the prompts given to agents contain cURL commands that humans can replicate. However, in February 2026, a reverse CAPTCHA system was introduced to filter out human users. As of March 30, 2026, t

form of optimization

mode of electronic communication

proposed medical diagnosis related to overuse of social media

Sharenting is a portmanteau of "sharing" and "parenting" describing the practice of parents publicizing a large amount of potentially sensitive content about their children on internet platforms, most notably on social media. While the term was coined as recently as 2010, sharenting has become an international phenomenon with widespread presence in the United States, Spain, France, and the United Kingdom.

Nostr (acronym for Notes and Other Stuff Transmitted by Relays) is an open protocol for decentralized message transmission, with the intention to be able to resist internet censorship while maintaining session integrity. "Noster" can also be translated as "our" or "ours" from Latin. The protocol achieves decentralization through users publishing content associated with a cryptographic public key to various "relays", which are WebSocket servers that store and distribute an activity stream of received data from users. This allows the network to verify users and achieve account portability on Nos

process of verifying that a new or existing account is owned and operated by a specified real individual or organization

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application platform around Facebook's social network

subset of electronic commerce that involves social media

Linktree is an Australian freemium social media reference landing page service provider headquartered in Melbourne. It was developed by Alex Zaccaria, Anthony Zaccaria, and Nick Humphreys.

software agent that communicates on social media

instant messaging app by Turkcell

video game genre

free and open-source federated social networking service

Act of the Parliament of Australia, currently registered as C2024A00127

social media app

instant messaging app

visual art style

person who manages an online community

thumb|A bust of MIT president Francis Amasa Walker separated from its pedestal at the [[MIT Museum]] Deplatforming, also known as no-platforming, is a boycott on an individual or group by removing the platforms used to share their information or ideas. The term is commonly associated with social media.

annual awards show for short-form social web media conent

form of investing

branch of computer science studying the intersection of social behavior and computational systems

union of television and social media

measure of the discrepancy between a scientist's social media profile and publication record

web page created by an individual to contain content of a personal nature

Evaluation of social media metrics

set of human contacts known to an individual

function in social networking and instant messaging services

kind of web service

term used to describe a form of peripheral social awareness

Misskey () is an open source, federated, social networking service created in 2014 by Japanese software engineer Eiji "syuilo" Shinoda. Misskey uses the ActivityPub protocol for federation, allowing users to interact between independent Misskey instances, and other ActivityPub compatible platforms. Misskey is generally considered to be part of the Fediverse.

on e.g. social media, blogs and newsfeeds

2011 non-fiction work by Clay Shirky