In this day and time it seems that everyone is on social media, except for myself. The ease of being able to stay connected through a variety of apps and share your life with others is an amazing thing that draws people to Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and Snapchat. Having said that China may have discovered the future of social media that combines all of these popular platforms into one app, and even more. Weixin was created in 2011, and the app allowed users to use free in app texting features, like Facebook to communicate, as well as post memories or photos to share with their followers like Instagram, and also provided news updates like Twitter.
This was just the beginning, as Weixin has even provided their users to send and receive money in app, like paypal. They were turning this app into a one stop shop for anything that the user would want in a social media platform. The way that they kept expanding the app to stay ahead of all of the other platform, and basically taking what all users loved from each platform and combining them into one making it all available at the click of a button on the users smartphone was brilliant, and really changed the game for social media.
The app has expanded to other areas of Asia and has even began to gain some momentum in America, as the app has hundreds of millions of users around the globe. I know myself, I love when things are easy and this app makes everything about social media easy, if I want to open a news link I don’t have to pull up a new page it simply expands on my current page which means I never have to leave the app. It is the simple things like this that really attract me to the application and platform. This is the future of social media, and I see the platforms that are highly popular in the United States following this model in the near future.
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