Different Online Platforms of World Wide Web
www.youtube.com
YouTube is an American online video-sharing platform headquartered in San Bruno, California.
YouTube allows users to upload, view, rate, share, add to playlists, report, comment on videos,
and subscribe to other users. It offers a wide variety of user-generated and corporate media videos.
Available content includes video clips, TV show clips, music videos, short and documentary films,
audio recordings, movie trailers, live streams, and other content such as video blogging, short
original videos, and educational videos. As of October 2020, YouTube is the second-most popular
website in the world, behind Google, according to Alexa Internet.
www.facebook.com
Facebook (stylized as facebook) is an American online social media and social networking
service based in Menlo Park, California, and a flagship service of the namesake company Facebook,
Inc. It was founded by Mark Zuckerberg, along with fellow Harvard College students and
roommates Eduardo Saverin, Andrew McCollum, Dustin Moskovitz, and Chris Hughes. Facebook
can be accessed from devices with Internet connectivity, such as personal
computers, tablets and smartphones. After registering, users can create a profile revealing
information about themselves. They can post text, photos and multimedia which is shared with any
other users that have agreed to be their "friend", or, with a different privacy setting, with any reader.
Users can also use various embedded apps, join common-interest groups, buy and sell items or
services on Marketplace, and receive notifications of their Facebook friends' activities and activities
of Facebook pages they follow. Facebook claimed that it had more than 2.3 billion monthly active
users as of December 2018, and it was the most downloaded mobile app of the 2010s globally.
www.instagram.com
Instagram (commonly abbreviated
to IG or Insta)[9] is an American photo and video sharing social networking service owned
by Facebook, created by Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger and originally launched on iOS in October
2010. The Android version was released in April 2012, followed by a feature-limited desktop
interface in November 2012, a Fire OS app in June 2014, and an app for Windows 10 in October
2016. The app allows users to upload media that can be edited with filters and organized
by hashtags and geographical tagging. Posts can be shared publicly or with pre-approved followers.
Users can browse other users' content by tags and locations and view trending content. Users
can like photos and follow other users to add their content to a feed, a function that seems to be
discontinued as of September 2020.
www.pinterest.com
Pinterest is an American image sharing and social media service designed to enable saving and
discovery of information (specifically "ideas) on the World Wide Web using images and, on a smaller
scale, animated GIFs and videos, in the form of pinboards. The site was created by Ben
Silbermann, Paul Sciarra, and Evan Sharp and had over 400 million monthly active users as of
August 2020. It is operated by Pinterest, Inc., based in San Francisco.
www.gmail.com
Gmail is a
free email service developed by Google. Users can access Gmail on the web and using third-party
programs that synchronize email content through POP or IMAP protocols. Gmail started as a
limited beta release on April 1, 2004 and ended its testing phase on July 7, 2009. By 2018, Gmail had
1.5 billion active users worldwide At launch, Gmail had an initial storage capacity offer of
one gigabyte per user, a significantly higher amount than competitors offered at the time. Today, the
service comes with 15 gigabytes of storage. Users can receive emails up to 50 megabytes in size,
including attachments, while they can send emails up to 25 megabytes.
