Advantages of

journalism on social
media

FACEBOOK
Facebook is an online social networking service
headquartered in Menlo Park, California. Its website was
launched on February 4, 2004, by Mark Zuckerberg with
his Harvard College roommates

Twitter
Twitter is an online social networking service that
enables users to send and read short 140-character
messages called "tweets". Registered users can read
and post tweets, but those who are unregistered can
only read them

Snap chat
Snapchat is a video messaging application created by
Evan Spiegel, Bobby Murphy, and Reggie Brown when
they were students at Stanford University.

Google+
Google+ has been disparaged and shunned by much of
the public for the moves Google has made with it.
Google+ has long required users to use their real name
as their screen name, a move which was made even
more unpopular when Google announced that YouTube
comments would take place through Google+. That
requirement is now gone, much to the delight of

Vine
Vine was founded by Dom Hofmann, Rus Yusupov, and
Colin Kroll in June 2012. The company was acquired by
Twitter in October 2012 for a reported $30 million. Vine
officially launched on January 24, 2013 as a free app for
iOS devices. On June 2, 2013, an Android version was
released.