Applicable for HUMSS

Facebook is rapidly gaining recognition as a powerful research tool for the social sciences. It constitutes a large and diverse pool of participants, who can be selectively recruited for both online and offline studies. Additionally, it facilitates data collection by storing detailed records of its users’ demographic profiles, social interactions, and behaviors. With participants’ consent, these data can be recorded retrospectively in a convenient, accurate, and inexpensive way. Based on our experience in designing, implementing, and maintaining multiple Facebook-based psychological studies that attracted over 10 million participants, we demonstrate how to recruit participants using Facebook, incentive them effectively, and maximize their engagement. We also outline the most important opportunities and challenges associated with using Facebook for research, provide several practical guidelines on how to successfully implement studies on Facebook, and finally, discuss ethical considerations.

Google Blogger is a free publishing platform run by Google. It is designed to be easy to use so writers can upload content to their blogs via email, Google Plus and various Microsoft apps and programs. Google AdSense generates revenue, and users who have difficulty with Google Blogger can get support from the Google Blogger Forums.

YouTube is a free video-hosting website that allows members to store and serve video content.  YouTube members and website visitors can share YouTube videos on a variety of web platforms by using a link or by embedding HTML code.

An amazing website where you share stories that you've written, and read and comment on other people's works. often called 'YouTube for ebooks". There is a shuffle button if you don't know what to read, and if you like a particular author, you can 'become a fan' which is basically subscribing to them.

Twitter also is considered a social networking service because people create profiles and connect with other people electronically on the service. The connecting process is similar to Facebook, only on Twitter the people who connect with you are called "followers" instead of "friends." As with Facebook, you develop a list of connections whose profiles you can browse and with whom you can swap messages. 

These are the common trends and networks applicable for the HUMSS students.