6 of the best social apps, which are the most used in the world on smartphones, are also available for Windows 10 PCs and tablets (and also on the few remaining Windows smartphones), so you can continue the activities that take place on your phone on your PC. The main advantages of social applications for PC compared to their respective websites are basically three: being able to keep apps running in the background and receiving notifications in real time, being able to keep windows open to the side while working and then having a optimized and more comfortable interface, which also offers larger photos and images.
In addition, using social and messenger apps in Windows 10 allows you to also share photos and files from Windows Explorer, directly on Facebook, using the sharing options that appear by pressing the right mouse button on a file, choosing the Share option.
The apps listed here can be downloaded from the Microsoft Store in Windows 10, are the official ones, obviously free and without limitations, and allow you to access Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Whatsapp, Telegram and Facebook Messenger respectively.
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1) Facebook App for Windows 10
Already released at the time of Windows 89, the app for Windows 10 that can be downloaded from the Microsoft Store is a faithful replica of the iPhone and Android apps, with all the social netowork features available, including also watching videos, managing groups, finding people, sharing status and photo updates, and real-time notifications.
With the app installed it also becomes very easy to share photos from your PC using Windows 10 internal sharing options.
The Facebook app can be downloaded for free from the Store.
2) Messenger App for PC
With the Messenger application, you can chat with Facebook friends in real time using your computer as you would your smartphone.
The Facebook Messenger app for Windows 10 also supports voice calls and video calls.
The main advantage of using Messenger on Windows 10 as an application lies in the notifications, which appear in real time on the PC screen as it happens on mobile phones, so you can respond immediately and without interrupting your work.
From the Windows Start menu you can take a look at the latest messages received on the live pane of the Messenger application.
You can send videos, images and GIFs via chat and create group conversations.
Messenger for Windows 10 can be downloaded from the Microsoft Store
3) Instagram on PC
Until recently, Instagram allowed to publish photos only from a smartphone, while today it is possible to use the Windows 10 app to publish photos and videos, use enhancement filters and also to create new Instagram Stories by taking images from the computer .
The main advantage is that you can see large photos on your computer monitor and be able to browse them in a much more comfortable way than you can do from the website.
The Explore tab allows you to discover photos and videos that we might like and follow new accounts.
With Instagram Direct, you can also send private messages, photos, videos and posts directly to friends.
The Instagram app for Windows 10 can be downloaded from the Microsoft Store
4) WhatsApp for PC
WhatsApp for Windows 10 is an application that actually replicates the functionality of Whatsapp Web and that follows the same operation.
In practice it becomes an interface to send and receive messages using the PC, which only works if Whatsapp on the phone is connected.
To use Whatsapp it is necessary, therefore make the association via QR code as you do with Whatsapp web.
The advantage is represented by notifications, which arrive on the computer in real time, and by the fact that it is possible to write messages and share photos using the keyboard.
You can download Whatsapp for Windows 10 from the Store.
5) Telegram
The Telegram application for Windows 10 is fully functional by itself (not like Whatsapp which requires connection with the mobile phone) and includes all the numerous Telegram functions without limitations
6) Twitter for Windows 10
Twitter has always supported the Windows platform and has an official application from Windows 8, further improving it in Windows 10.
This app works very well, it allows you to read the news in an orderly and fast way and to browse the trends of the moment and to search much faster than when you can do it from the website.
Finally, we must remember that on the PC you can install the Franz program that unifies Whatsapp, Skype and Messenger and other chats together
