Social Media - That Used By Programmers.

In this world, everyone is active on social media, for example, Instagram which is used for photo-sharing, Facebook which is used for communication and interaction with new people, and many video-sharing applications.

In this article, we will discuss programmer's social media.

There are many social media applications, but some specific applications are used by a programmer such as StackOverflow, Reddit, Quora, etc.

What is Social Media?

Social Media is huge network and an interactive digital channel that allow to share information, user communication to each other, it is internet-based. Some example of popular social media applications such as Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, etc. 

Nowadays a social media application is used for advertising and influencing the people that act on that app, new brands are promoting their products on these applications like Instagram, TikTok, Facebook, etc.

But A programmer is not regularly active on these applications, they use community applications such as 

• Github
• StackOverflow
• Reddit
• Quora
• Discord 
• LinkedIn

These are popular apps that are used by programmers because there are lots of communities active for helping their followers.

Following is an overview of social media that is used by programmers.

• Github

A Github is a code distributing platform that is used by programmers for sharing their code, host, and collaboration with other programmers. Github is the most popular application. Every coder or programmer uses Github. Github is easy to use, we can easily host static websites on it. There are many alternatives to Github but it is the most popular.

• StackOverflow

StackOverflow is a questions and answers website for programmers. Every programmer uses StackOverflow in their developer life to get the answer to their critical problem in computer science. In StackOverflow, there are many communities to answer your questions.

• Reddit

A Reddit is a website and an application that is a discussion social media application. It is an American website, all registered users can share links, videos, photos, text, etc. There are all categories and communities such as cats, coding, etc. You can upvote and downvote others' posts using the arrow sign. There are many active users.

• Quora

Quora is also a questions and answers website but it is not only for a specific field, It is for everyone. Everyone can write their question and upload it on quora after some time you got many answers from quora users. Quora is not only for questions and answers it is also used for sharing links, photos, videos, etc.

Users can rate their work and content.

• Discord

Discord is a free voice, chat, video, and text chat application and website. Discord is used by tens of millions of people to talk with their communities and friends. There are lots of communities. Supported operating systems Windows, Linux, UNIX, Android, and web browsers.

• LinkedIn

LinkedIn is an application and website that's mostly used by professional people.

Basically, LinkedIn is a job searching and career development website. It is used to build connections in your industry. We can share our achievements on LinkedIn as a post, videos, and text.

So we have finally discussed our topic which is Social Media which is used by programmers. We Hope, you get a clear understanding of everything in this article.