Social media and social networking websites and apps used for connection with friends and family and to meet people
Connecting with friends and family: Facebook, WhatsApp, Facebook Messenger, Google+, Twitter, Skype, and Snapchat. These social media and social networking websites enable users to connect with friends and relatives through messages, voice calls, video calls, and chatting. General social networking: Facebook, WhatsApp, Facebook Messenger, Google+, Twitter, Skype, Instagram, LinkedIn, and Snapchat. These websites are useful in general interaction between uses through messages, voice and video calls, uploading images and videos, sharing videos, files, and pictures, reacting to messages, and posting status updates. Business and professional networks: Facebook and LinkedIn. The websites are useful by professionals for their connections and businesses to reach and engage their target audience. Reddit: The website is useful for serious discussions by like-minded people and mainly useful by professionals and scholars in discussion topics based on research.
Thesis statement
Connecting with friends; People use the social media and social networking websites for many purposes, but reaching, engaging and interacting with friends and family is the most essential motive of the majority users of the particular websites. Facebook, WhatsApp, Facebook Messenger, Google+, Twitter, Skype, and Snapchat are the commonly used social media and social networking websites by people across the world. Subscribers seek to reach their friends and relatives and share the intended messages through text messages, video and voice calls, and chats. The sites enable people to connect easily irrespective of distance and time, and this enables people to retain their social relationships and reach one another probably after a long time of physical meetings. The sites also enable the subscribers to make friends with other subscribers and interact in different ways, therefore helping in continued social interaction across the world.