Redes Sociales

LinkedIn

Main Characteristics:

• User profile network

• Security

• Applications

• Mobile

• Groups

• Job listings

• Skills

• Influencers

• Advertising and for-pay research

Advantages:

• Professional Connections

• Opinions

• Discussions

• Job Seeking

• New Clients

• Old Connections

• You can post your resume including all the companies you’ve worked for and it helps find connections from those jobs for you to add.

• You can join groups related to your business as a way of meeting new people.

• Using LinkedIn helps you increasing your social networking with various people across the globe.

Disadvantages:

• Is not user friendly.

• There is huge learning curve when introduced to navigating and understanding the sites capabilities.

• Lots of data entry, not a great plus for people who don’t have a lot of time to spend on the internet.

Security:

• On May 31, 2013 LinkedIn added two-factor authentication, an important security enhancement for preventing hackers from gaining access to accounts.

Services:

• LinkedIn enabled an "applications platform" that allows other online services to be embedded within a member's profile page. Among the initial applications were an Amazon Reading List that allows LinkedIn members to display books they are reading, a connection to Tripit, and a Six Apart, WordPress and TypePad application that allows members to display their latest blog postings within their LinkedIn profile.

• LinkedIn allowed businesses to list products and services on company profile pages; it also permitted LinkedIn members to "recommend" products and services and write reviews.

Instagram

Main Characteristics:

• Trends:

Weekend Hashtag Project

Throwback Thursday

Selfies

• Features and Tools:

Explore Tab

Filters

Advantages:

• Is the perfect way for young people to develop their artistic ability by taking pictures of different scenarios.

• It’s also helpful because it improves their communication and they are able to share information with their friends in an original way.

Disadvantages:

• It is not used correctly and for its original purpose.

• It controls their lives too much: they spend too much time on it and share private information that shouldn’t be uploaded onto the internet.

• Some people also use it to spy on others even if they do not know them.

Security:

• Instagram announced a change to its terms of use, stating that "you agree that a business or other entity may pay us to display your username, likeness, photos (along with any associated metadata), and/or actions you take, in connection with paid or sponsored content or promotions, without any compensation to you"

Services:

• 100 Cameras in 1

• Carousel

• Gramatica

• Hyperlapse (app)

• Iconosquare

• Instagram & Printing

• Instamap

• Picfx

• Printic

• Socialmatic

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