When choosing 3 social media sites to talk about, I decided to use Youtube, Deviantart, and Blip. Now I'm sure we all know what Youtube is: a website made to watch and share videos. It is a website used and easily accessible to almost all audiences. The ability to share any video to almost anyone via Twitter, Facebook, Email, and so on is very useful. It's most effective use is it's ability to share, personalize, comment, and view any video. There's a reason it is one of the most popular video websites on the internet.
Blip is another video themed website much like Youtube, however Youtube had quickly eclipsed it in terms of popularity. It's main focus was mainly web series such as Rooster Teeth and Channel Awesome. Unfortunately the website shut down a few months ago, but while it was up I used it to watch videos made by movie reviewers like Doug Walker, Lindsay Ellis, and others. Other than those, I'm afraid I don't remember much else about that website. I remember it being very popular amongst movie reviewers since the copyright laws on Blip weren't as strict as on Youtube so in people's reviews they could use clips in their reviews to help prove their point without the threat of having their videos taken down by Youtube's overreacting copyright policy. I assume the audiences for something like Blip would be those who enjoy watching these web series like myself, which in that case I'd say it succeed in what it did while it lasted. At the bottom of this particular blog article s a link describing Blip's closing. Feel free to give it a check!
Finally the third social media website that I chose was Deviantart.com. Deviantart is used for artists to share their art for others to see and also 'favorite' other user's artwork and add them in a 'favorites collection'. Users also have their ability to put their works up for sale to receive earnings for their art, though this isn't the main focus of Deviantart's existence. Like I said it's main purpose is for people to submit any art work of any kind: digital art, fan art, paintings, photography, costumes, comics, fiction, fan fiction, etc. Just make sure for safety's sake not to turn the ability to see any art under Mature Content on for your mental stability's sake.
http://variety.com/2015/digital/news/maker-studios-is-shutting-down-blip-next-month-1201544219/
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