I love social media because I have always been a fan of technology. Social Media was introduced to the world decades ago through the world’s first social media platforms called Hi5 and MySpace.
In Ghana, we were not used to the internet and mobile phones years ago, so when I was young, i will alway to go to an Internet Cafe in order to have access to an internet and check out these social media platforms, Hi5 and MySpace. I created an account on both platforms and I made friends from Ghana and beyond.
Years later, several social media platforms have been launched and they include Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Reddit, LinkedIn, Tumblr, Rumble, among others.
I have accounts on some of the above mentioned social media platforms but the following are my favorite social media platforms.
Hi5- is one of the early social media platform to be launched in the world. This website was introduced when penpal of writing letters to friends across the world was fading away and everything was being digitized. Hi5 was a very nice and interesting social media platform where people made new friends, reconnected with old friends, among others. I created an account with Hi5 years ago when it was a very popular platform, and I made new friends from the United States of America, United Kingdom, Germany, Portugal, South Africa, Kenya, Nigeria, Philippines, Venezuela, among others. Hi5 enjoyed its prime until Facebook was introduced years later.
MYSPACE- was a competitor to Hi5 years ago and these two social media platforms were the only ones decades ago that existed, hence they were really patronized and popular. MySpace is the first platform that introduced Kim Kardashian to fame and stardom. She was the most popular and most followed person on MySpace. Few people knew her from that social media platform before she became a very big celebrity. MySpace helped me to make new friends across the globe, reconnect with old friends, etc.
FACEBOOK- is the most popular and most used social media platform. I was part of the first hundred Ghanaians on this social media platform after it was introduced. Facebook became the best and most patronized platform after Hi5 and MySpace faded away. Honestly, Facebook is my most favorite social media platform because it gave me a huge space to sell my talent as a writer and prolific English language speaker. Facebook had a new and special touch because it reinvented social media platforms in an improved and unique way, hence its rise to popularity and high patronage within few months after it was launched. I was very popular on Facebook fourteen years ago.
Over the years, Facebook has launched a lot of features and now, you can do your business on Facebook in so many ways. As a blogger, I am able to reach a high number of audience by posting my stories on Facebook groups, pages, and personal profiles.
TWITTER- is a conversative kind of platform. I love what the owners or founders of Twitter came up with. This social media platform was very unique and it drew them almost the same number of audience on Facebook. The different nature or twist to what a social media platform is, made Twitter popular as soon as it was launched a year after Facebook. On Twitter, users connect in seconds with friends on colleagues on the platform. Twitter is on a level of its own. The new Twitter spaces where you get to talk to more than one hundred users at a time is very interesting. I love Twitter and I still feel sad that I lost my old account which had several celebrity brands following me.
INSTAGRAM- became one of my favorite social media platforms because of its picture sharing focus. This special unique feature of Instagram instantly made them popular and they got millions of users within a year after it was launched. Instagram has always being loved by people across the globe.