A website, application, or online channel that enables web users to create, co-create, discuss, modify, and exchange user-generated content. According to Nielsen, a global information and measurement company, Internet users spend more time in social media sites that in any other type of site. With this, more and more advertisers use social media to promote their product
There are 6 types of social media:
1. Social Networking sites
A social networking service (also social networking site, SNS or social media) is an online platform that is used by people to build social networks or socialrelations with other people who share similar personal or career interests, activities, backgrounds or real-life connections.
2. Bookmarking Sites
Social bookmarking is a user-defined taxonomy system for bookmark s. Such a taxonomy is sometimes called a folksonomy and the bookmarks are referred to as tags. Unlike storing bookmarks in a folder on your computer, tagged pages are stored on the Web and can be accessed from any computer
3. Social News
A social news website features user-posted stories that are ranked based on popularity, as voted on by other users of the site or by website administrators. ... Since their emergence with the birth of Web 2.0, these sites have been used to link many types of information, including news, humor, support, and discussion.
4. Media Sharing
A Web site that enables users to store and share their multimedia files (photos, videos, music) with others. Such sites are providing a modest amount of free storage and paid subscriptions for greater storage
Flickr5. Microblogging
A broadcast medium that exists in the form of blogging. A microblog differs from a traditional blog in that its content is typically smaller in both actual and aggregated file size.
6. Blogs and Forums
A website that displays postings by one or more individuals in chronological order and usually has links to comments on specific postings.To write entries in, add material to, or maintain a blog
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