Within no time, Reddit has gained popularity on internet because of posting popular internet stuff.
Does it sound confusing to you too? I assume it does!
So Reddit is not something hi-tech to understand, but something very trendy to be aware of. It is reviewed as the “front page of the internet”.
Don’t worry; even I didn’t have this point that easily! Let me break it up for you into small chunks.
Just like every newspaper has a front page that sheds headlines and parts of the news which are continued on some page inside the pile; similarly, Reddit gives you the front page of “The Internet”. Everything worth knowing and highly trending on internet is a part of Reddit to keep you aware of all at once.
1. Overview
Reddit is basically an American web application that aggregates the news, social media trends and other internet happening on a single platform. Internet users are required to make an account on Reddit and become its official user. Every active user of reddit is referred as Redditor.
To make it even easier to understand, it is merely a social media website that allows you to be a part of internet news community. You can have the voice in making a post seem important or unimportant as per your views.
2. What’s the need of it?
Regardless of how much time you spend on internet, you will agree that knowing about all happenings on internet is nearly impossible. Then, why not having a platform that sheds light on all the viral news and trending social media posts as well as online news?
This is what reddit does!
It gives you all of strange, popular and anomalous happenings of internet so that you can be aware of, participate in it, have a voice about it and let others know how you feel about it. That is exactly why we need the platforms like reddit, so that we can have awareness of trending news from all around the world, which also include serious ones. Then, we can share our views on everything we see on reddit or want others to pay attention to.
3. How would I be a part of it?
Oh, definitely, you can be a part of news posted on reddit. All you need to do is use the features that reddit provides.
You can comment, share and vote the existing postings on reddit. I again assume that you have understood the concept of commenting and sharing but still struggling to understand votes! Precisely, this isn’t just votes but up votes and down votes!
Up votes and down votes give you the right of having a voice in making a post popular. You can up vote a post to show your interest and down vote to the stuff that doesn’t seem worthy enough to be on the high rated news.
This will reflect your point of view regarding the importance of the news. A post on reddit that have quite a large number of up votes is seemed to be considered important by the internet users while one with the down votes is considered unimportant.
Besides, you get to enter in Subreddits which are basically the communities revolving around a niche extracted from a rather generic and broad topic. These will help you make your appearance important by making your “front page of the internet”. For that purpose, all you need to do is subscribe or unsubscribe to certain subreddits.
4. Some Important Terminologies
Just like every other web application or social media platform, Reddit also has its own acronyms and terminologies that you must be known to.
- Starting from some basics, OP is used for “Original Post”. So whenever someone posts comments and direct it to OP, you will know that it is talking about original post.
- TIL is used for “Today I Learned” as there will be many things that you will come to know today.
- AMA which is an acronym for “Ask Me Anything” is the most vividly used feature as people are eager to ask and when there is an option for it, Bam! The chain of questions is unstoppable then
- Karma is another vivid feature. It is not an acronym for anything but a word that explains the responses you have been receiving on your posts or comments.
That is so much information yet all so interesting that you should try it yourself
Let’s make our own accounts on Reddit and experience these features on our own. For sure, the information here will guide you a lot to get familiarity with the homepage of the internet!
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