What’s Social Media?

BY Sep. 02, 2009 6 Comments


If you ask a typical teen what social media is, the response will most likely be “stuff like Facebook.” If you were to ask me the same question, I could take you one step further.

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Social media is a platform that connects you to the entire world, whether using text, video or image. It can be used to connect with people, to market, to interact, to learn and to understand. Today’s most widely used networks include: Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Flickr, Myspace, WordPress and Linkedin.

Wikipedia also gives a great explanation.

Social media are media designed to be disseminated through social interaction, created using highly accessible and scalable publishing techniques. Social media supports the human need for social interaction, using Internet- and web-based technologies to transform broadcast media monologues (one to many) into social media dialogues (many to many). It supports the democratizati

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on of knowledge and information, transforming people from content consumers into content producers.

Why waste your time with this? It’s time consuming, invades your privacy and is wrought with annoying marketers. The bottom line is,  using social media can be enjoyable, profitable and a highly sociable experience. For some, it might even be nostalgic if they reconnect with people from their past.  If you are a social media newbie and want to get started, now would be a great time to register on Facebook, Twitter or Linkedin.

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  • Greggory Tiff

    Hey, thanks for explaining this. Btw I really loved the first picture it really explains everything.

    • http://intensedebate.com/people/benmaxime benmaxime

      No problem, thanks for reading my blog.

  • Christina

    nice

  • Grandma

    Benjamin, Thank you for explaining about social media/networking to this grandmother in her early 70s. It was actually a topic of conversation at dinner with friends just last night. We were discussing the pros and cons of Facebook and one of the participants in her late 30s told us older folks that there are ways to not make yourself open to the public unless you see a familiar name and let that person in. Would be fun to reconnect with some old friends in LA!

    Combined with your information here, I just might try it when I find a moment! Grandma

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  • Maeganaz35

    Nowadays, social media and also social networking is very common online. This is one way people connect each other even the other person is on the other half of the world. Anyway, thank you for sharing this post with us. This is very useful for those individual who are not familiar yet with social media and networking.

    Maegan

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