Your Favorite Social Media Platform Says a Lot About You

Main photo courtesy of Megan Koester.

We're all addicted to social media, but the ways we use it continue to become more diverse.

Although the major social media platforms remain Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram, the popularity of new platforms that use anonymity as a selling point, like YikYak, have seen tremendous growth in the past year. Snapchat's emphasis on impermanence helped it to become the fastest growing app overall, according to a recent study published on Techcrunch. That same study found Tumblr was the fastest growing social media platform out there, probably because of all the reblogs of weird GIFs and slash art. That's just what the kids are into.

One major drawback to the social media giants—Facebook and Twitter—is how vulnerable users are to unwanted attention. It's always a bummer to see Aunt Linda crash a perfectly good comment thread on Facebook, and equally a bummer to get trolled by random followers after you post a joke on Twitter. (Not to mention how depressing it is to see that apparently all of your friends are always doing better than you in every aspect of life.)

Where can we go to feel comfortable on social media? Where do you have the most fun? Which is the biggest necessity? And in the end, is it all just another means for advertisers to pitch products to you?

VICE contributors Grant Pardee and Alison Stevenson spoke with Matt Ingebretson, a comedian and writer for The Soup's web content, to talk about all that.

Producer: Sam Varela

Engineer: Jorge Reyes

Music: LA FONT

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