Social Media and Networking in Music Streaming Services (Bandcamp/Spotify): Spotify's integration with Social Media

Music is something that most of us enjoy in our everyday lives.

Some of us also would like to share around the music that we've been enjoying to our friends.

Is Spotify a Social Media platform?

In my opinion, no it's not. But as I mentioned before in my previous post, which is an introduction, Spotify is actually well on its way to becoming one. 

Names and profile pictures have been censored for the sake of the privacy of my friends.

Having the ability to view your friend activity and being able to "follow" your Facebook friends on Spotify makes this music streaming service almost like a social media platform already.

Not only does Spotify allow users to connect with their favourite music and artists (by letting us "follow" them), it also allows us to connect with our friends through the streaming platform's integration with Facebook.

I can follow my favourite artist/band on Spotify to keep track on their latest releases

I can also follow a friend to keep track on which artist they've been listening to...

...And keep track on what public playlist a friend has been following

Facebook and Twitter

Especially with its compatibility with Facebook, Twitter and other social media platforms, we can share the music we're listening to via Spotify's inbox system to our Facebook friends, or we can share them on your timeline.

Thanks to this amazing integration, Spotify can now allow its listeners to leverage their following on the social platforms mentioned above, thus creating their own social platform to their own liking.

Well, that's it. Thank you for reading!

In the next post, I will be writing my introduction to Bandcamp! Another music streaming service that has found its place in the leagues of new media!

I'll see you all in the next post!