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With the rise of the internet, social media sites are at an all-time high and show no signs of stopping its growth with over millions of people around the globe posting, messaging and interacting with one another. However with all these social media sites appearing everyday one may find trouble finding the differences between each other.

For many one of the most popular social media sites is Facebook which is a classic take on what people think of when they think of a social media site. Here you create a profile based on yourself and your life with filling out various aspects of work, school, etc. and upload a personal picture of yourself. From there you befriend other users and share pictures, message each other, posts thoughts and statuses, share news and overall interact with people who most of the time share there real identity on there profile. 

Another social media site called Twitter functions very differently from Facebook with its main aspect relying on posting short messages and statuses. Unlike Facebook where its encourages its users to have a very personal profile and post lifetime events and statuses, twitter users often don't post too much personal information about themselves and rather rely on posting quick thoughts and messages to whats happening at the current time whether it be for personal thoughts and opinions to spreading the news on the latest thing. 

Another social media site called Instagram somewhat combines the two social media sites above with Instagram focusing on creating a personal profile about yourself as well as posting pictures that other users can view and comment to keep in touch with your friends and followers. With pictures and videos being the main focus, word statuses aren't a huge deal as Instagram main aspect is the visuals of the user.

Last but not least is Reddit which is a social media site but not to the personal level as the other three. Here personal profiles aren't really a thing and instead users submit posts of various things such as pictures, videos, thoughts and news on a concentrated feed for other people to view and vote on. Posts voted high will appear to other viewers while posts voted low will be ignored. Reddit also functions as there are sub communities within for users can find a group of like minded people to share the hobbies and passions. 

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