Monthly Archives: March 2021

Pinterest: Where great ideas begin

Background: Pinterest is an app that allows you to express your creativity in any way that you can imagine. You can make boards for things such as fashion, food, traveling, etc. The world is your oyster when it comes to … Continue reading

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Flickr – A Photo Platform for Professionals

Grace Milan COMM 498 Professor Zhong 5 March 2021 Flickr – A Photo Platform for Professionals A vast majority of individuals in today’s technology-run society communicate and share information with one another through online media platforms. One of the primary … Continue reading

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Depop: Communicating Through Clothing

In today’s society, connecting with one another through social media is not only prevalent for social interaction, but it also provides easy options for business transactions. Beginning as an app solely for purchasing clothing from magazines, it transformed into an … Continue reading

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RoadStr: The New Way For Car People To Meet Car People

Overview: Having been a car freak for as long as I can remember, car meets, car shows, and going for drives with other friends has always been a massive part of my life.  I joined by first car club at the … Continue reading

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Why Is Tik Tok So Popular?

Tik Tok is a social media app that isn’t easy to understand at first because it is a mix of everything. New social media apps come and go constantly, but 2020 was the year Tik Tok took over and was … Continue reading

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Co-Star: the brutal part of the Cosmos

App: Co-star Photos:     Background:   Co-Star is a “brutally honest” social media website, where you can check your horoscope for the day. It was created in 2017 by Banu Guler, Ben Weitzman, and Anna Kopp, and it has … Continue reading

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Instagram, is that you?

It’s no secret that the popular social media application Instagram has changed some of their key features over the years. But the latest upgrades are starting to make users quite literally freak out. This past Tuesday, without warning or explanation, … Continue reading

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Poshmark: Place to buy and sell fashion & beauty

Background Poshmark is a popular social commerce marketplace for people to buy and sell fashion & beauty. It was founded in 2011 by Manish Chandra in Redwood City, California, and has over 300 employees now. The platform has thousands of … Continue reading

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Telegram: Privately being Social!

When iPhones were becoming popular one of the main applications you would have on your phone are Twitter, Facebook and Instagram, and if you lived in certain places of the world you probably had Whatsapp or Viber. In 2013 a … Continue reading

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Bumble: Make the First Move

Background: Released in 2014, the new mobile dating app Bumble came onto the scene.  With Bumble, their goal is to break down the old-fashioned tradition of men making the first move.  When two people of the opposite sex swipe right … Continue reading

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