Social media platform.... or the lazy way to create content. Lazy way for the platform creators I mean. There are thousands of eager users, that will jump to virtually anything and start giving generously. Embroiling themselves into all sort of actions, activities, and, wait for it, embarrassment. Some smart and cautious, most reckless and with short fuse, using social media as a "free" therapy session. Or, for some, as a platform to create, to multiply their lives, to make an alternative, to play with possibilities.
Some will be mostly enjoying Facebook, LinkedIn, Google(plus) - these are social networking creatures, some addicted, some casually browsing whenever they need. Totally unrelated to their lives, or on the contrary, deeply intertwined.
Some will choose microblogging Twitter, Tumblr and that is quite politicized zone, I would say. Donald's favorite medium. And anyone who wants to express himself, but is in constant lack of time otherwise.
Some are more visual beings and chose YouTube, Facebook Live, Periscope, Vimeo for video sharing, and man, that can eat up your life... Even things that are otherwise very useful, one need a big discipline and a virtual sieve with a very small mesh. Or say goodbye to real life as you know it.
For more busy people who still like colors and image, we have Instagram, Pinterest, Snapchat. That is a vast ocean of inspiration, comparison, reality and un-reality check. To be used with caution.
And last, but not least, a whole array of internet Forums, that cater for every need and every group imaginable. And those hard to imagine. Basically a heaven for verbal incontinence people but not only. For those of few words too, that is the beauty of it. Themes are from all mish mash, like the Australian Whirlpool forums, to some specific, like "90 day fiancee" viewers, of babywearing community.
One last that pop to mind, if you have children most likely, are forums for gamers, like Discord. Initially made for discussing various games in the privacy of the individual "rooms" accessible for few members only, it evolved into something much more, like all virtual creations do.
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