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Facebook is the most popular and widely used social media app in the world. Facebook has benefits such as connecting long lost friends, allowing you to see what your friends are doing , and share status updates, photos, and videos. According to the source," Facebook jumped on the live-streaming bandwagon in early December by testing its own live video feature, which will allow users to record a video on their smartphones to share in real-time on the social media site." Facebook was released in 2006 and since then has helped bring back connections amongst a variety of people. Out of all the social apps that are essential Facebook is first because it can basically do everything that other social media apps can do and more . It has more benefits and without it you would be able to survive this generation.

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Twitter is the second most important social media app for many different reasons. Twitter gives everyone access to what's happening now and all of the news in the world. If there's one app that delivers news and allows you to communicate with other people it is twitter. Twitter has impacted technology now because it has allowed people to rely twitter to deliver their news instead of the actual news on TV. Twitter was released in 2006 as well. So if you want to find out the latest news or even talk to your friends twitter is definitely the second most essential social media app.

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Google + is the 3rd essential social media app. According to the source,"Google has given users a social site that has a little something for everyone." This app is one of a kind by combining Facebook and Twitter into one app. Google + has really impacted technology because it is using the worlds largest search engine to really develop the app and it has everything you need in one app.  The benefits of google + are exploring new interests, communicating with new people, and create groups that include things you love. Google + was created in 2015 and was one of the many other platforms google has released

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YouTube is the fourth essential social media app. YouTube is very broad with over a million of users. According to the source,"YouTube has become so popular that its catalog of billions and billions of videos has become known as “the world’s second-largest search engine” in some circles." The benefits of YouTube are becoming noticed/famous, connect and share with other users, and find videos you love fast. YouTube is the 3rd important social media app because it's not as open to communication as Facebook and Twitter is. When you're using YouTube you can comment on other people's videos but there's no direct messaging. YouTube was released in 2005 and has impacted how we see others if they are YouTube famous or not.

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Instagram is the fifth most essential social media app. This social media app is great for sharing photos and videos. Instagram allows you to share content with your friends and communicate with them as well. You can post things to your story, direct message people, and go live on your account. Theese benefits have allowed Instagram to become much more advanced than most other social media apps. Instagram was released in the year of 2010 and has updated since then.

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Linkedin is the sixth most essential social media app. Without this app there would be no such thing as mixing business with social networking. This app connects people and allows you to keep up with career connections. This is the core of finding a job. Linkedin allows you to connect to the people in the professional world. Some of its benefits are finding new people and careers, getting updates on professional industry's , and growing a network. This app helps with social skills as it allows you to reach out to people. Linkedin has influenced technology because it's it has created finding jobs much easier as a whole and without this app you probably will have a harder time finding a career in the professional world.

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Slack is the 7th most essential social media app. Slack isn't as broad as linkedin but is still up there with connections .Many of its benefits include communicating with your team or even class, instant message or call anyone in the group , and share your documents. This app is so helpful for teachers and businesses. Slack was released in 2015 and has been updated to fit our use of technology today. Slack has connected different people within the app and is important due to educational services it's provides as well.

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Snapchat is not one of the higher prioritized social media apps but it's still pretty important. Snapchat keeps people in touch with one another in a quick way. It's one of the best apps that allows people to share memories by taking pictures on the snap camera. One of its benefits is it keeps people informed on the news and views from the apps go-to websites. Snapchat is not only a social networking app but it's also a photo and video app because it contains face filters and geographical photo tags. This app surely has impacted the way we communicate and has been ever since it was released in 2011.

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This social networking app is the 9th essential app. WhatsApp has allowed people in replace to an SMS you can use this free texting and calling app. The benefits of this are allowing people stay in touch with friends and family. It's the cheaper way to stay in touch but it only does what any other iPhone messages does. This app is only beneficial is you want free and simple texting and calling. What'sApp was released in 2010 and hasn't really changed since then . It offers the same aspects of texting and calling as the iPhone does which doesn't make it that essential but still worthy of being a classic app because of its benefits over other social media apps.

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Pinterest is the 10th most essential social media app. Pinterest has some benefits but they are not worthy of it being on of the top essential apps. The benefits of Pinterest are finding ideas you love and collaboration with friends. Pinterest was released in 2010 but hasn't really made much improvements since then. It's still the same aspect of the app but it's still worthy of being the tenth essential social media app.

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