SOCIAL MEDIA International youth work practitioners can use social media above all for acquiring participants, communicating with participants, identifying sup- porters, sharing project outcomes and networking in general. Social media networks all have certain characteristics that should be taken into account when drawing up a social media strategy. Our recommendations » Instagram: #youngpeople #images #videos » Snapchat: #youngpeople #images #videos » TikTok: #youngpeople #upandcoming #videos #addons » YouTube: #youngpeople #videos » Discord: #youngpeople #gamingscene #videos #chat » Twitch: #youngpeople #gamingscene #videos #chat » Facebook: #olderadolescents #experts » Twitter: #journalists #shortmessages #politics #activism » Influencer search engine: https://nindo.de/
More and more young people are interacting on video or image networks, the most prominent of which are Instagram, Snapchat, TikTok, and Discord and Twitch especially for gamers. International youth work organisations, institutions and partners still predominantly use Facebook and Twitter. There is a large variety of social media channels, and they all function differently. Each channel has its own rules concerning
» the maximum length of a post, » how often a post should be published, » the times when the user community is most active, » whether text, images or videos are accepted, » whether handles (@name) or hashtags (#) make sense.
There are some issues associated with social media such as data privacy, copyright, addition, fake news and cyberbullying. A major problem is that they operate based on algorithms that track and process users‘ interests and preferences, which in turn determines the content users see. Media giants such as Facebook use these personal preferences to automatically select and display the content they believe is relevant to users. That said, provided people are taught how to use them responsi - bly and intelligently, social networks can be a great educational tool.
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