Personally I have always thought there is too much overlap with many of these platforms. For example, on facebook you can post statuses, so I've never really understood the need for twitter (although my roommates would argue against me). Again, you can post pictures on facebook too, so why have instagram? Especially since instagram photos are now directly loaded to facebook. Anyways, up till this past year the only online community I ever really participated with was facebook (not counting the pre-facebook days of myspace). However, last year my roommate out in Hawaii was an avid fan of an image sharing site called Imgur (pronounced image-ur, although the pronunciation im-gur is starting to gain more popularity).
At first I just thought this is was another normal image sharing site that people could post to. However, this online community is anything but normal! Like other sites Imgur is all about sharing pictures, memes, gifs, however, unlike many other picture sharing sites, the Imgur community comments and votes on pictures/ picture-stories with creative and pun-filled comments. There's a real positive attitude of imgur users that really shows through in many posts and comments. Once you read a few touching posts and look through the comments, you can really tell the users of Imgur share a true sense of community and really do support each other to strive to be better and happier.
Imgur quickly climbed to be one of the most popular online communities and is continuing to grow every day. To get a better idea of who is involved with the Imgur community check out these interesting statistics!
Signing off,
A recently converted Imgurian
This post succeeds in making me interested in learning more about Imgur, but I want to understand more about the nuts and bolts and why people are attracted to it over or in addition to other sites. I hope your slide narration explains how it works.
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