Social networking sites

Facebook

Even though it is currently not the most popular among the younger crowd, Facebook is still currently the most dominant of all social platforms. It is mainly useful because of how ingrained it is across people of all age groups, so it can be a nice way to keep in touch with old friends and family that you do not see very often. However, the way that it handles news feeds can be very annoying, and it can be extra obnoxious when people try to use it as a platform to have gigantic political debates where they link useless articles. Facebook has definitely catered toward the spread of misinformation in the past, though there are hints of them starting to change that.

Twitter

Much like Facebook, Twitter's main issue is how people try to have debates or try to make profound statements that do not come off well due to the character limit. Twitter is one of the best places to get breaking news on various subjects very fast though, as it is usually the first platform that people go to so they can share any events that happen near them.

Steam

While platforms like Facebook and Twitter are for universal audiences, Steam is a platform for people that play video games on their computer. It started as a storefront, but it has a built in community section where people can chat on message boards for every single game that is sold on the platform, or people can share custom modifications for the games through the platform. This helps foster creativity and can even act as a substitute for official troubleshooting as games often have issues on the PC platform that gets resolved quickly by the fans of the games.

Reddit

While this site tends to get known more for the negative things that go down on it, like the Donald Trump board's trolling, Reddit is still a very useful site for discussion about very specific topics. Since Reddit allows for communities on any subject to start they own message board on it, this allows for people with similar interests to gather around and have discussions on that interest. Reddit is basically hundreds of thousands of smaller communities all held under one website.

Next New

Virtual reality is currently gaining traction. While higher end VR headsets are not exactly very popular outside of the gaming community due to their price of entry, some of the cell phone attachments have been much more popular. It is clear that this will be a viable platform for a form of new media. While the technology gets better, I think that it will be the place for future MMORPG video games like World of Warcraft, or a social media platform with a level of interaction that was not possible before, or even a viable way to hold company meeting, or gatherings for some sort of presentation or convention for people that cannot travel for some reason. Virtual reality will probably be the future of "new media".