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Image under Creative Common License  https://www.flickr.com/photos/28634719@N02/25090968815   Social Media Platforms   refer to different websites and applications that are used by individuals for social networking, blogging, microblogging, photo sharing, and video sharing, etc.. These platforms are also used by businesses as sales and marketing tools to engage with their customers, sell products and services, as well as recruit and hire people. 5 Well-known Social Media Platforms Facebook Facebook is currently the most widely used social media platform. Its users create profiles -- whether for personal or business -- where they upload photos and videos, and Facebook friends interact by liking, commenting, and sharing. Users can also send private messages to other users through Facebook's widely used messaging platform 'Messenger' .  Instagram Instagram is a  photo and video-sharing social media platform. Individuals and businesses use Instagram to take, upload...

 SOCIAL MEDIA IN LIBRARIES Image Credit: Lewis Ogden under creative commons attribution license from  https://www.flickr.com/photos/68830805@N04/43617178595  accessed 26 October 2020. Blog Houghton Library Blog https://blogs.harvard.edu/houghton/ This is the main blog of the Houghton Library at Harvard University that started in 2009. Houghton Library is the repository for Harvard Library's rare books and manuscripts.  Blog posts were initially about interesting materials discovered by library staff during cataloging as well as about collections available for research.   Eventually, the blog became an outlet for staff, student workers, and visiting researchers to share aspects of their work with the collections, whether behind the scenes, in the stacks, or in the reading room. [1] [1] HL BLOG STAFF. (2019, 16 August). About the Blog. Houghton Libray Blog. Retrieved 25 October 2020 from  https://blogs.harvard.edu/houghton/about-2/ YouTube Library of C...