Repost, edit, retweet and snap: the social media capabilities and options are endless. Almost every day, a new application or “app” pushing the number to nearly a million, bringing the possibilities for communication to be endless.
Currently GIF or moving image apps are gaining popularity.
“I’ve been using a GIF app for about five months now,” senior Martha Mendez said. “I like to use Cinemagram.”
Cinemagram is composed of different types of GIFs from music to comedy.
“I tend to post really funny things or just interesting stuff,” Mendez said. “I only follow people who post funny things since I like to repost them.”
Mendez also enjoys the girly part of Cinemagram.
“I like to follow people who post really cute and adorable things,” Mendez said.
There is one big downfall to Cinemagram according to Mendez.
“Some people don’t really post funny or cute things at all,” Mendez said. “There are some people who post really inappropriate things. They also add some things that are just disgusting.”
Another social media outlet and app that is currently extremely popular with students is Twitter.
“I like Twitter because it is a simple way to express yourself,” senior Clarissa Pedraza said. “I have been using it since my sophomore year.”
Twitter consists of posts of no more than 140 characters along with the occasional photo posts.
“My favorite part of twitter is being able to retweet (repost) other peoples tweets,” Pedraza said. “I like that you can follow and communicate with your friends along with having the capability to see what celebrities that you are in love with are up to.”
Another new app on the market is SnapChat. SnapChat is an app where you can send photos with a drawing or text on top of the image.
“I have had SnapChat for about two months now,” senior Bailey Davis said.
Davis’ favorite part is the art capabilities.
“I love that you can draw and color on the pictures,” Davis said. “I also really like the fact that you can add text to the photos before you send them to your friends.”
According to Davis there is only one downfall.
“I hate how sometimes your friends will send them for only three seconds,” Davis said. “If you send a picture with too short of time you can’t really see it.”
One big hit among students is Instagram. Instagram is similar to a photo album and similar to what can be found on Facebook but without the profile.
“Instagram is a great place to post all of your photos,” senior Melissa Maya said.
“My favorite part of Instagram would have to be the layout,” Maya said. “I like how it cites (geotags) where you took all of the photos you upload. I have had it for about a year now.”
The app is a large social network for students.
“I like to follow my friends and some other people,” Maya said. “I follow people who put up nice pictures and also people who won’t annoy me when I see their pictures.”
Maya also enjoys Instagram because of the things you can see from around the world.
“I really like when people take pictures of different events,” Maya said. “It’s cool that you can see different people’s photos from all over the world.”
With so many different apps, the world of communication has practically become endless.
“Social media is really beneficial to students,” senior Jose Sanchez said. “A lot of the time I will use apps like Twitter to talk to other people from school to get information about homework or other assignments that I may have missed in class.”
According to Sanchez, the world would be gravely different without apps like Twitter.
“If we didn’t have apps, communication would be totally different,” Sanchez said. “The world of sharing your thoughts and ideas along with other objects would be lost. The way that we are connected to each other wouldn’t exist without those apps.”
