Meta Platforms, Inc. (formerly Facebook, Inc.) is a technology conglomerate that owns some of the world’s most widely used social media, messaging, and virtual reality platforms. Their ecosystem of apps connects billions of people globally.
Here are the top 5 most popular apps owned and developed by Meta, generally ranked by their active user base:
- 1. Facebook
- Description: The flagship social networking service that allows users to connect with friends and family, share updates, photos, and videos, join groups, and discover content. It remains one of the largest social media platforms globally.
- Core Function: Social networking, content sharing, community building.
- 2. WhatsApp
- Description: A popular cross-platform messaging and voice over IP (VoIP) service. It enables users to send text messages, make voice and video calls, share images, documents, user locations, and other media. Known for its end-to-end encryption.
- Core Function: Instant messaging, voice/video calls, media sharing.
- 3. Instagram
- Description: A photo and video-sharing social networking service. Users can upload and edit photos and short videos, follow other users’ feeds, use Stories (short, disappearing content), Reels (short-form videos), and IGTV (longer-form video).
- Core Function: Photo/video sharing, visual content discovery, social networking.
- 4. Messenger
- Description: Meta’s standalone instant messaging app, originally integrated into Facebook but later spun off. It facilitates text, voice, and video calls, group chats, and various interactive features.
- Core Function: Instant messaging, voice/video calls, chat-based communication.
- 5. Threads
- Description: Meta’s relatively new text-based conversation app, launched as a direct competitor to X (formerly Twitter). It allows users to post short text updates, photos, and videos, and engage in public conversations.
- Core Function: Text-based public conversations, microblogging.
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