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What are Video Sharing Apps?)
A video sharing app is an application that allows you to send videos and post them for your friends and family to see. Also, you can share it to everybody if you want to. On the video sharing apps, you can watch people exploring, traveling, doing a sponsor for a company, baking, and much more. Some of the video sharing apps are YouTube, Instagram, and TikTok.
How do we use Video Sharing Apps? (An explanation of how to use the social media tool)
First step to using a video sharing application is to create an account on any of the video sharing apps
Second, is to pick on who you want to follow/subscribe to on the video sharing app
Third, is to create a post or video on your chosen video sharing apps
Lastly, you can like/comment on your friends and/or families posts or videos
Advantages:
You can follow your friends and family (stay connected)
You can see what your favorite celebrities are doing
You can see if there is a new movie coming out to theatres (watching and finding trailers on YouTube or Instagram)
You can see if there are any news updates. For example, live news on YouTube
Disadvantages:
There might be a hacker on the video sharing apps (privacy issues)
Some people might put mean comment on your post or on your videos (bullying)
Negativity from other creators- They can make people not follow/not subscribe to your account.
People can steal your content
Example of a Video Sharing App: Instagram
How to use Instagram:
First, create an account on Instagram
Second, pick who you want to follow on Instagram. This can be your friends, family, or your favourite celebrities
Third, you can make a post or video (reel)
Lastly, you can like or comment on their posts or their videos (reels)
About Instagram:
Instagram is an amazing app to use. You can post videos (reels) of you traveling to different places in the world, or post pictures of you going to the mall. You can follow your friends, family, and your favorite celebrities. With that you can text, call, and video chat with your friends and family. The new thing that Instagram is doing for celebrities is this thing called “broadcast channel”. This is a way to tell their fans what new things are happing. Not only do celebrities get the broadcast channel, but streaming sites like Netflix can also use a broadcast channel to tell the binge-watchers what exciting events are happening. Movie Studios like Universal studios use this feature too. There is a lot of things you can do on Instagram, including video sharing!
Resources used for this Assignment (links):
https://www.pcmag.com/encyclopedia/term/video-sharing-app
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