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YouTube is an American video-sharing website headquartered in San Bruno, California.  In November 2006, it was bought by Google for US$1.65 billion.The site allows users to upload, view, rate, share, add to favorites, report and comment on videos. Available content includes video clips, TV show clips, music videos, short and documentary films, audio recordings, movie trailers and other content such as video blogging, short original videos, and educational videos. The total number of hours of video watched on YouTube each month - 3.25 billion. 10,113 Youtube videos generated over 1 billion views. 80% of YouTube's views are from outside of the U.S. Female users are 38% and male users are 62%.

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Google+  is an interest-based social network that is owned and operated by Google. Circles is a core feature. It enables users to organize people into groups or lists for sharing across various Google products and services. Organization of circles is done through a drag-and-drop interface. Once a circle is created, a Google+ user can share specific private content to only that circle. For example, work themed content can be shared with only colleagues, and one's friends and family could see more personal content and photos. The option to share Public or with Everyone is always available.  Google's has a 2.2 billion user base however only 111 million users  have “active profiles,” on Google+, which is about 0.5 percent of all Google users.

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Pinterest is a web and mobile application company that operates a photo sharing website. Registration is required for use.

Pinterest CEO Ben Silbermann summarized the company as a "catalog of ideas," rather than as a social network, that inspires users to "go out and do that thing." Users can upload, save, sort, and manage images—known as pins—and other media content (e.g., videos) through collections known as pinboards. Pinterest acts as a personalized media platform. Pinterest has  150 million active users.  81% of Pinterst users are female. Median age of Pinterest users is 40. ​ 30% of ALL social media users have a Pinterest account.

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WhatsApp Messenger is a freeware, cross-platform and end-to-end encrypted instant messaging application for smartphones. It uses the Internet to make voice calls, one to one video calls; send text messages, documents, PDF files, images, GIF, videos, user location, audio files, phone contacts and voice notes[6][7] to other users using standard cellular mobile numbers.WhatsApp Inc. was acquired by Facebook in February 2014 By February 2016, WhatsApp had a user base of over one billion, making it the most popular messaging application at the time. 29% of smartphone owners use general-purpose messaging apps such as WhatsApp or Kik.

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Slack is a cloud-based team collaboration tool.  Slack began as an internal tool used by their company, Tiny Speck, in the development of Glitch, a now defunct online game. The name is an acronym for "Searchable Log of All Conversation and Knowledge". Slack teams allow communities, groups, or teams to join through a specific URL or invitation sent by a team admin or owner. Although Slack was meant for organizational communication, it has been slowly turning into a community platform, a function for which users had previously used message boards or social media such as Facebook or LinkedIn groups. Many of these communities are categorized by topics which a group of people may be interested in discussing. Slack was founded in 2014, today it has 4 million daily and 5.8 million weekly users. 

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Reddit is an American social news aggregation, web content rating, and discussion website. Reddit's registered community members can submit content, such as text posts or direct links. Registered users can then vote submissions up or down to organize the posts and determine their position on the site's pages. The submissions with the most positive votes appear on the front page or the top of a category. Content entries are organized by areas of interest called "subreddits". The subreddit topics include news, science, gaming, movies, music, books, fitness, food, and image-sharing, among many others. As of 2016, Reddit had 542 million monthly visitors (234 million unique users), ranking #7 most visited web-site in US and #24 in the world. Across 2015, Reddit saw 82.54 billion pageviews, 73.15 million submissions, 725.85 million comments, and 6.89 billion upvotes from its users.

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Flickr is an image hosting and video hosting website and web services suite created in 2004.  It was acquired by Yahoo on March 20, 2005.  In addition to being a popular website for users to share and embed personal photographs, and effectively an online community, the service is widely used by photo researchers and by bloggers to host images that they embed in blogs and social media. On average, 1 million photos are posted daily and Flickr has 122 million users.

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Vine was a short-form video hosting service where users could share six-second-long looping video clips. On October 27, 2016, Twitter announced it would disable uploads, but viewing and download would continue to work.  The service was founded in June 2012, and American microblogging website Twitter acquired it in October 2012, just before its official launch. Users' videos were published through Vine's social network and can be shared on other services such as Facebook and Twitter. Vine's app can also be used to browse through videos posted by other users, along with groups of videos by theme, and trending, or popular, videos. Vine competed with others such as Instagram and Mobli. In Vine has 200 million active users.  100 million people watch Vine videos every month.

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Tumblr is a microblogging and social networking website founded in 2007, and owned by Yahoo! since 2013. The service allows users to post multimedia and other content to a short-form blog. Users can follow other users' blogs. Bloggers can also make their blogs private. For bloggers, many of the website's features are accessed from a "dashboard" interface.

As of February 1, 2017, Tumblr hosts over 334.1 million blogs. As of January 2016, the website had 555 million monthly visitors.

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Yik Yak is a social media smartphone application. It is available for iOS and Android and it allows people to create and view discussion threads within a 5-mile radius (termed "Yaks" by the application).  It is similar to other anonymous sharing apps such as Nearby, but differs from others such as Whisper in that it is intended for sharing primarily with those in proximity to the user.  All users have the ability to contribute to the stream by writing, responding, and "voting up" or "voting down" (liking or disliking) yaks.  Yik Yak has about 4 million monthly users. 

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