Social networking core functions: Image application Socialization

From the point of view of information transmission, picture is the most intuitive carrier of information transmission, from ancient times, people use pictures to convey information. Because the picture is more intuitive, low threshold of the communication mode. According to the survey, at the end of 2010, the number of images in Facebook was 60 billion, and by the 2011-year summer, the figure had reached 100 billion. In China, QQ space Photo album is the most popular mainstream photo-sharing platform, now has a huge crowd of 600 million, the highest number of uploaded photos has exceeded 360 million, it is no exaggeration to say that the picture is the most core of social networking experience and one of the functions.

With the popularity of smartphones, mobile phones are likely to become the best social media based on photo sharing. A joke has been popular on the internet to the effect that Nokia is the world's largest maker of digital cameras because it sells more cameras than any camera manufacturer. 2011 data show that the world's mobile phone photos have reached 228 billion. Album website Flickr2011 published a statistic, IPhone4 is about to surpass NikonD90 to become the most used photographic equipment for Flickr members.

In 2011, there were more than 6,000 applications in the "photography" category of Apple's App store, at least half of which were various camera enhancements, and Google's Android harsh also had thousands of related applications. Video enhancement or image editing function is endless, but with the mainstream social network platform's account directly with a key to share, became the picture application to obtain the user's key, is many emerging picture application priority consideration and the development important function.

To the United States, for example, from a variety of products from the United States Mito mobile phone clients, the United States image GIF mobile phone clients, the United States Mito ipad Client access to QQ login and album API, so that users can be the first time to beautify the photos uploaded to the QQ space album, easy to store photos, and So that the United States map application greatly enriched the user experience, and through the chain of friends of the spread of the site to bring a lot of traffic and brand exposure. According to data, 94% of photos from the United States Mito sharing to different social platforms were uploaded to the QQ space album.

Hot application of the Rabbit Wacky Camera on the line 3 months, of which through the QQ account log accounted for 65%, daily 40,000 QQ users in the use of Rabbit wacky camera, and photos to share the QQ space.

It is clear that the application of picture classes to the Tencent social platform make application no longer a simple picture tool, but also become a part of the social platform, which greatly enhanced its Web site and mobile application of the social attributes, so that share content to retain the first time fresh, so that users instantly enjoy the wonderful mobile Internet life. At present, the domestic mainstream photo-sharing platform and application tools include Weico, Poco cameras, pushpin, GIF quick, crmera360, muttered picture wall and so on with the QQ interconnection cooperation. Mobile Internet brings convenience and random no time to invade the lives of ordinary people, in the open tide, QQ Internet for the development of the application of the picture to provide fertile soil to grow.