is

WHAT

SOCIALMEDIA?

Social Media is:

Social Networks:Sites dedicated to keeping in touch with friends and making new ones.

Blogs/ Mircroblogs:An online diary of how the person is feeling and what they are doing

Wikis:Communal databases for everybody edited and written by everybody!

Podcasts:Information or videos on the internet that can be subscribed to by others

Content Communities:Uploaded content such as photos and videos which can be viewed friends and strangers!

• Up to date/quicker info than• Contains more information than• Easier to obtain more information than

Social Media is:

RSS Feeds(Really Simple Syndication Feeds)RSS Feeds feed up to date information about

a particular subject to the subscriber

i.e. BBC Sport – Instant goal updates

Social Media is:• Sharing photos and videos with others• Sharing memories with friends• Chatting with others• Showing the world to the world with ‘geotagging’

flickr uses ‘geotagging’ to put photos people have taken in locations and then are placed on the map for others to see

• Constantly being updated• Becoming easier and easier to use• Being learnt from a younger age

Social Media is: V2

.06.4

V2.06.4

V2.07.5

V2.07.5

V3.00.0V3.00.0

ADDED

WITH!

•Cheaper computers•Cheaper cameras•Faster internet

People are beginning to learn how to create and add videos, pictures, music and anything else they would like to add to their sites.

WHICH

MEANS!

WHICH HAS RESULTED IN!5,000 photos added per minute

100million videos viewed per day

Social Media is:

NOT PRIVACY

!

Social Media is:

PRIVACY

Exploitation of people As users of social networks are able to add

information about themselves, they can also add information such as:

-pictures-videos-wall posts/comments

This leads to others finding out information that the subjected person may not want them finding out

To Conclude:

• Social media is one of the most frequently used ways of keeping in touch with others as well as keeping an eye on others.

• Social Media is constantly growing with more users blogging, posting and creating due to the help of easier software and cheaper goods.

• Social media will continue to grow past the stage of saying we cannot live without it but to the point where people will not be able to live without it.

References:

http://www.yale.edu/vball/twitter-logo.pnghttp://www.yale.edu/vball/facebook-logo.pnghttp://www.wikimedia.org/http://www.bebo.com/http://www.ghacks.net/uploads/apple-logo.jpg

http://www.myspace.com/http://www.youtube.com/

http://www.flickr.com/http://www.flickr.com/map/