International Media Trends- QQ, Chinese Social Media
Social media is a wide reaching web that engrosses the majority of internet accessible areas in the world. I've looked into various apps that are popular in countries other than my own and they all seem to share the same basic structure, my guess is that no one wants to stray too far from a winning formula. I've researched the popular Chinese apps Weibo and WeChat but I found out a platform I had overlooked the first time called Tencent QQ. It is evidently widely popular in China. It's so strange to me that I missed it the first couple times around studying up on foreign social media due to the massive user base it has yielded. Data reveals that it is the 8th largest social network on the globe. It has over 600 million global users and is considered to be the 2nd most poplar social network in China. WeChat has a larger user base but ironically it comes in at number six and is also operated by Tencent. In 2016 QQ b...