How do we abstract out these features?

[gbowne1]

Features in Social Media Apps

• User Profile: Having a user profile that is able to retrieve the user data via REST API calls from LinkedIn, Google+, Twitter and Facebook. 

• Personalization: There must be a way to personalize they provide. A social media app should provide: Photo effects, background colors, customizable bios, links, shareability, discoverability of the content

• Feed: Social media feed helps users to share the posts, user-generated stories, user-uploaded audio, video, presentation and photos. 
  Ability to share to other platforms (Twitter, Facebook, Instagram..

• GPS Settings: Let users share their location with their family and friends. This is implementable via location API that retrieves a device’s location from GPS and mobile network providers. This location data can even help businesses in monetization.

• In-App Advertisements – Developers do need to access certain libraries that offer integration with advertisements and other related services.
  I'm not keen on heavy In-App ads.

• Third-Party Integrations – Developers should choose to integrate third-party services from verified providers only as the app store uses personal user data.

• Status updates: Users may post pictures, text messages, videos on someone’s timelines to express their desires and intentions.

• Provide Rich Text Editors: It enables users to make their content creative, beautiful and unique.
  Facebook's Lexical?

• Simple and Interactive Interface: To enable easy sharing of content.

• Target Specific Audience: Social media apps like Instagram make use of filters that make their apps catchy. VSCO targets professional photographers, SoundCloud allows musicians to showcase their music out there.

  My targets would be Coders/Programmers, Anyone in tech fields, Singles/Dating, YouTube & Instagrammers, Streamers (Twitch, YouTube, Facebook)

• Managing the Self Esteem: People like maintaining a sound image and get instant rewards in the form of likes, comments, share and subscriptions for their activities on the social media platform.

• Social media platforms are often linked with one another – Users are able to share their WhatsApp stories on Facebook that remains active for 24 hours. Users’ who post the status update is able to view the names of the people who watch their story. Oftentimes if the story is visible to public (then it is visible to everyone globally, even to those who are not connected as immediate – 2 degree – 3-degree friends) 

• Connections – Content-based connections, Explorer, Talker, Admirer, Searcher, Groups and Events

Social authorization
Feed – News and entertainment
Post Creation – Text/audio/video content
Post Likes/love/care/sad/wow expressions
Social notifications + push notifications
Analytics (hidden for users) – Includes using one Analytics tool (Google Analytics/ Firebase/ MixPanel; Basic SDK configuration (minimum analytics, OS versions, devices etc.), tracking screen (Develop, staging, production)
Content Management System (CMS) – Admin Authorization/Admin Management/User Management

[gbowne1]

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