Topic 5 - Key Platforms

Social media is a rather new invention. However, there are dozens of social media platforms, many of which use similar business models.
Topic 5 helped me better understand the characteristics that would allow me to compare different platforms. They include the number of active visitors, how many contacts an average use has, how many users use the platform on a daily basis, what languages are supported, how many countries the users come from, what activates they engage in and how many apps are available on a particular platform. Some of these characteristics apply only to social networks, others are try of all types of social media platforms.