Varchar or Text Data Types for strings length up to few thousands of chars

Question

I have a small social networking website, with posts and comments.
I decided to let users create posts with any number of charس they want, and I think the best Datatype

Answer 1

Use one of the four type of TEXT available [TINYTEXT, TEXT, MEDIUMTEXT, and LONGTEXT] depending on your requirements. http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.7/en/storage-requirements.html