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Social media, on the other hand, is a means to communicate and share information with a vast audience
through websites. You can post images, videos, etc. to attract followers. The purpose of such sites is to
create buzz and curiosity among the public, either directly or indirectly. Some examples are YouTube,
television and newspapers.

Let's learn about the various forms of social media and how we can post or write messages on various
apps. You are making a sculpture. You want to let people know about it. This is how you will post your
message on different apps.

X: I am making a sculpture.
Facebook: I like sculptures.

Quora: Why am I making sculptures?

YouTube: This is a video of me making a sculpture.

Instagram: This is a photo of my sculpture.
LinkedIn: My skills include sculpture making.

Facebook

Facebook is an American online social networking service. It was founded by Mark Zuckerberg on
February 4, 2004. It was opened for people in 2006. It is the biggest social network worldwide, with
approx. 2.6 billion monthly active users. You can connect with your family and friends and share your
photos, status, interests, videos, links, and much more. India leads the tally as the biggest user of
Facebook, with over 280 million monthly active users. Some important features of Facebook are:
You can organise your preferences and list them according to your likes. The left pane of the Facebook
window displays the different categories of activities, interests, and events.

You can create groups. This feature is mainly used for advertising and selling the products online.
The seller can directly connect with the members who like your product. Some new features, such
as watch party, search, pages, live, saved, units, scheduled posts, and filters, have been added.

You can send messages through Messenger. Messenger is a handy feature to chat with people. You
can do video calling, share files and links and send emojis too.
You can check your login location “where you are logged in”. This feature lets you find all your active
Facebook logins from any device.
You can even restrict some people or friends from Factbot
seeing your post. This helps maintain privacy.
If you are using Facebook on multiple
With the help of “Download your information” devices, you can log out of a particular device
and own a personal copy of everything you have or all the devices at once.
ever shared on Facebook.

The main menu bar of Facebook is given below.

Facebook Search Video Notification Notifications

Your profile ID

Home Friend request received Messenger for chatting

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