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Uses of Common Apps

Let’s learn about the uses of common apps.

Educational Apps

Learning is a continuous process and the focus has now completely shifted to e-learning. Due
to the availability of smartphones and various feature-oriented applications, students can
learn at their place and take their time to understand things as everything is just a click away.
Educational apps provide new learning methods. There are interesting learning games available
that indulge the students into a healthy thought process and help them understand things
from a diff erent perspective. These apps also help parents to interact with the teachers who
respond to the parents’ queries regarding the development of their wards. These interactive
learning apps can be accessed anytime.
Social Networking

Social networking is playing an important role in communication. People use social networking
to post photos, videos and view updates. There are several social networking apps available.

Facebook: It has more than 2 billion monthly active users. The user needs to have an account
in Facebook and then he/she can share, comment, view updates and perform various other
activities. It was initially desktop-based but now Facebook is available as an app.
WhatsApp: It has more than 1.2 billion active users. It was initially text-based. But now you can
make audio and video calls using WhatsApp.

Twitter: It is used to tweet and follow Learn More
people. Initially tweet was restricted to 140
characters. But now twitter has removed LinkedIn is a networking app specialising in the
the restrictions. sharing of business and professional information

Entertainment Apps
There are hundreds of apps available for entertainment. All you need is a smartphone or any
other compatible device with an Internet connection to access these apps. These apps allow
you to watch television shows, games, movies and various other programs. You can also listen
to songs using these apps.

Banking

Nowadays all the banks have their own apps. Banking
apps can be used to perform various activities like Think and Discuss
transactions, checking account balance, raising request Can you perform online transactions
for issuing cheque book and opening FDs. during a bank holiday?
E-commerce

E-commerce may be defi ned as business activities for Learn More
buying/selling of products, services and any information
Which app will you use for sharing
through electronic means, which mainly includes the
photos with multiple people?
use of Internet.

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