The culture...of social networking? Yes of course. When being an activist, you should know what social network to go to share your word, to awaken people. However, even social networking services have been confusing for activists, and even as activists have not been utilising it properly. Especially with the social media culture still having its flaws. So here is guide for all honest activists on the how the culture of the most prominent social networking services.
1. Facebook: It was made originally for university students as "TheFacebook". Havard University was the first to use this service. It changed its name to And it retains the reputation of having mostly drones from the educational institution, especially the elite academia. It also explains the immense quantity of ignorant people, bad trolls and the corrupt elite, that are on Facebook.
2. Twitter: An SMS-inspired social network, which is simpler than Facebook, so more people are quickly using Twitter, despite Facebook having the most users. Twitter is aimed at Internet celebrities in the video game industry, music industry, computing industry, fashion industry and the political system. It has flame wars that are usually longer lasting with more moaning, but sometimes less extreme than YouTube.
3. Google+: Less popular than Facebook or Twitter, but the intelligence level of its users is most likely the highest of any mainstream social networking service. However, it has connected to YouTube, resulting in a few changes. However, as for Google+ exclusive features can accelerate activism, especially with Google+ communities.
4. YouTube: A video-sharing service which has often been utilised by the video game industry, music industry and street comedy producers. This is where flame wars are more extreme, but often short lived and forgotten. It has recently been using the Google+ APIs to produce the current features of YouTube, therefore the YouTube users and Google+ users are mixing together, leading to flame wars slowly growing on a few Google+ posts, Google+ communities and Google+ events, and Google+ users leaking onto YouTube. A good thing is, if you are supporting a revolution that is also trending on a hashtag and you post a video clip about your support for it and how the video clip shows support for the revolution, then it can raise awareness.
5. Pinterest: This social network is even smaller than Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and Google+, yet still enough to help activists. However, the audience is mostly focusing on cooking, dressing and home design. However, the audience is highly sensitive to "profanity" and "nudity".
6. 4chan: An anonymous image forum service, which has got millions of Anons on that website...at least in its golden age, when the Anonymous network was derived from 4chan. Now? The corrupt elite's partial conquest caused a large scale depletion of Anons. Now it is somewhat rare for Anons to be on 4chan.
7. 8chan: This is where many of the 4chan Anons have escaped to. Forums can have optional forced anonymity, so many users find it advantageous to post on the anonymous forums on 8chan. It is heavily involved in revolutions such as #GamerGate and #NotYourShield.
8. Disqus: An external forum hosting service, which depends on the community. However, it can be exploited almost as much as Facebook can be exploited, making it slightly dangerous to post what you want.
9. Wordpress: Blog service with forum features. Generally friendly, but some communities can collect a small flame war.
1. Facebook: It was made originally for university students as "TheFacebook". Havard University was the first to use this service. It changed its name to And it retains the reputation of having mostly drones from the educational institution, especially the elite academia. It also explains the immense quantity of ignorant people, bad trolls and the corrupt elite, that are on Facebook.
2. Twitter: An SMS-inspired social network, which is simpler than Facebook, so more people are quickly using Twitter, despite Facebook having the most users. Twitter is aimed at Internet celebrities in the video game industry, music industry, computing industry, fashion industry and the political system. It has flame wars that are usually longer lasting with more moaning, but sometimes less extreme than YouTube.
3. Google+: Less popular than Facebook or Twitter, but the intelligence level of its users is most likely the highest of any mainstream social networking service. However, it has connected to YouTube, resulting in a few changes. However, as for Google+ exclusive features can accelerate activism, especially with Google+ communities.
4. YouTube: A video-sharing service which has often been utilised by the video game industry, music industry and street comedy producers. This is where flame wars are more extreme, but often short lived and forgotten. It has recently been using the Google+ APIs to produce the current features of YouTube, therefore the YouTube users and Google+ users are mixing together, leading to flame wars slowly growing on a few Google+ posts, Google+ communities and Google+ events, and Google+ users leaking onto YouTube. A good thing is, if you are supporting a revolution that is also trending on a hashtag and you post a video clip about your support for it and how the video clip shows support for the revolution, then it can raise awareness.
5. Pinterest: This social network is even smaller than Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and Google+, yet still enough to help activists. However, the audience is mostly focusing on cooking, dressing and home design. However, the audience is highly sensitive to "profanity" and "nudity".
6. 4chan: An anonymous image forum service, which has got millions of Anons on that website...at least in its golden age, when the Anonymous network was derived from 4chan. Now? The corrupt elite's partial conquest caused a large scale depletion of Anons. Now it is somewhat rare for Anons to be on 4chan.
7. 8chan: This is where many of the 4chan Anons have escaped to. Forums can have optional forced anonymity, so many users find it advantageous to post on the anonymous forums on 8chan. It is heavily involved in revolutions such as #GamerGate and #NotYourShield.
8. Disqus: An external forum hosting service, which depends on the community. However, it can be exploited almost as much as Facebook can be exploited, making it slightly dangerous to post what you want.
9. Wordpress: Blog service with forum features. Generally friendly, but some communities can collect a small flame war.