Top 10 most used social networks in the world today

Social networking platforms make it easier to connect between Internet users, help users find people with similar interests and interests, and help old friends find and connect with each other. reunited after many years apart. Here are the top 10 most used social networks today, based on the number of active users.

What is Social Networking?

With the development of technology as well as social media, the concept of 'Social Network' seems to be too familiar to users because of its popularity and utility, covering a wide range of classes. user.

A social network, also known as a "network community", is an online platform to connect, build and share information and relationships with people who share the same personality, occupation, job, and interests. ... or have a relationship in real life, regardless of the user and can be connected in any time space. In general, there are many different social network models and the most popular social networks in Vietnam are still Facebook, Zalo, Viber, Instagram….

Social networks often have the following basic characteristics:

A social network is an application on the Internet platform

Content on social media is created and shared by users

The user creates a profile suitable for the page or application maintained on the social networking platform

Social networks facilitate the development of online social communities by connecting users' accounts with accounts of other individuals and organizations.

No one can deny the benefits that social networks bring to the community, but in this environment there are also many disadvantages. Social network is a virtual world, it is very easy to "addiction" when used with a lot of frequency, causing a very dangerous 'virtual life' syndrome in the community.

Top social networks with the most users in Vietnam and the world

Below will summarize the top popular social networks in Vietnam and the world in 2020 with the largest popularity and number of users.

Facebook: the most used social network with 2.7 billion active users

Founded in 2004 by current CEO Mark Zuckerberg, it was not until 2006 that this social network was opened to the public to global users. Since then, Facebook has grown tremendously to become the largest social network in the world. If it were a country, the social network with the most users Facebook would be the country with the largest population in the world.

YouTube: more than 2 billion active users

The first video was uploaded to Youtube on April 25, 2005 by Jawed Karim, one of the three co-founders of YouTube. Since then, Youtube has risen to become the largest video sharing website in the world and the 2nd largest social network in the world in terms of active users. On average, users around the globe watch billions of hours of videos on YouTube every day.

Instagram: the most used social network 1.16 billion active users

Initially just an application to process and create color filters for images, Instagram has since evolved into a photo and video sharing application. Instagram made rapid progress in terms of users after Facebook spent $1 billion to acquire the app in 2014.

TikTok: 850 million active users

As one of the "late birth" social networks when it was first established in 2016, TikTok has quickly risen to become one of the largest social networks in the world. The advantage of TikTok is its fun video effects and young user base, helping to create global trends to attract more and more users.

Qzone: 653 million active users

This is one of the most popular social networks in China, created by Tencent in 2005. Like Facebook, Qzone allows users to blog, share photos, videos…

Weibo: 523 million active users

Weibo is a "microblogging" social network that allows users to create short posts to share their thoughts and comments on an issue. In addition, users can also share photos/videos, livestream, buy and sell products, create votes, play games... on this social network. It is one of the most commonly used websites and mobile apps in China.

Pinterest: 416 million active users

Pinterest is a social networking platform that allows users to share and search for multimedia content (usually images). Users can create content collections by topic and interest on Pinterest. Officially launched in 2010, Pinterest is the fastest website to reach 10 million users in history, after only 2 years.

Snapchat: 398 million active users

Snapchat is an application that allows users to share photos and videos with friends, but the content will automatically disappear after a period of time being sent. Snapchat also allows users to add cool filters or effects to their images or videos. Like TikTok, Snapchat's main audience is young users.

Twitter: 330 million active users

Twitter's feature is to limit the length of each content that users post to 280 characters. In addition, users can also share photos, videos ... on average, every day more than 500 million pieces of content are shared on Twitter.

Reddit: 330 million active users

Often referred to as the “front page of the Internet”, Reddit is an online community that allows users to create topics for discussion with users with similar interests and interests. Reddit posts are divided into separate topics, and users can vote to rank the display rankings of topics on Reddit's website.

Top social networks with the most users in Vietnam

It can be said that 2020 is the explosive year of social networks when big companies like Vccorp and G-Group officially participate in the race for market share of social network users in Vietnam. So in 2020, what is one of the most popular and largest social networks in Vietnam created today.

Gapo – G-Group's social network

Gapo was built in April 2019, founded by Gapo Technology Joint Stock Company - a member company of G-Group Corporation, which currently owns many leading brands and technology services. in Viet Nam. This social network is mainly aimed at young people, developed based on the usage behaviors of Vietnamese youth. Currently, Gapo is the 9th product of this group and is a social network that inherits the "terrible" ecosystem of G-Group including: Beatvn, F88, Tima, G-pay, GameTV, VSEC, G-Capital.

Lotus – Vccorp's most user-friendly social network

Lotus is a social network made by VCCorp Joint Stock Company, with Admicro - one of the leading units in Vietnam in exploiting Internet advertising - also a subsidiary. Lotus social network focuses on content and user experience, with the main purpose of creating a support platform for content producers and individuals to unleash their creativity to create quality content. more service to users. Users will be able to manually arrange and master a vivid and novel way of posting (interlaced images, text and videos) according to their purpose to create an impression. Social network users with the most users can personalize and organize their personal pages according to their interests, not according to the fixed template of the application.

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