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Social Media

Social media is basically group of Internet-based applications that allow the creation and exchange of content. Social media is the term that has drastically changed the lives of almost everyone around the globe. It  is a very important tool that has made the lives easy and fast. Social media mainly depends on mobile and web-based technologies that enable individuals and communities to share, discuss, and modify user-generated content. They have made substantial and pervasive changes to communication between organizations, communities, and individuals

Many people confuse social media with social media website. Social media is such a broader term; it covers a large range of websites. Some of the types of social media sites are:

Social Networks – Social networking sites allow you to connect with other people of similar interests and background. In these you have to generally create a profile to connect with others.  The most popular are Facebook and LinkedIn. These sites have become a very important source of doing business. Not only the famous and recognized brands advertise themselves through such sites but new business also uses such sites to advertise their business.

Bookmarking Sites – Have you ever wondered that you search one thing and you get various other related things. It is the bookmarking sites that allow you to save organize and manage links to various websites and resources around the internet. Such sites allow you to “tag” your links to make them easy to search and share.  Some of them are Delicious ,  Blink list

Social News – Social News allow people to post various news items or links to outside articles and then allows its users to vote on the items.  The voting is the core social aspect as the items that get the most votes are displayed the most prominently.   The most popular are Digg and Reddit.

 Media Sharing – Media sharing services allow us to upload and share various pictures and video.  Many services have additional social features such as creating profiles, commenting, subscribing to the videos etc. Some of the examples are YouTube and Instagram.

Microblogging – It focuses on short updates. Anyone can subscribe to receive the updates.   The most popular is Twitter. Many celebrities, brand uses it for sharing various things.

Blog Comments and Forums – Forums allow members to hold conversations by posting messages.  Blog comments are attached to blogs and usually the discussion revolves around the topic of the blog post.

Social media is becoming an integral part of life online as social websites and applications proliferate.

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