Social media an advancing tool in the field of communication. They are highly interactive online tool that provides people, companies and governments to create, share or exchange their views in virtual way. The problem of distance or meeting people around the world is no longer an issue as the social media is being a rising trend in the modern technology. Through this media we would communicate with people around the world by sharing pictures, videos, text messages or even talking with them face to face on a regular basis is made possible and it is one of the easiest and cheapest way of communication. With the help of this innovating tool the interaction between our friends, relatives, colleagues and professors is made simple and in a quicker
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This generates a user-friendly environment with the people who are even in the other-end of the world without giving up the intimacy of interaction between person-to-person. There are lot types of social media we normally group social media into eight types based on the available sites. Let us analysis each type of available and most common types of social media among the people in detail. Social networking services that let people get connected with the other people based on the similarity in their interest and background. It consist of a user profile, various methods to get interacted with other available users, possibility to form groups, post status, make comments on recent news etc.,The most popular among this is Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn. Social news services that let people to post various news or links to the current happenings or articles and then make users to vote their response regarding the items posted. The community also has an eye in the new items that is viewed by majority of people. The news items are displayed based on the number of votes. The voting is the centre aspect in social media as the items that receive the most votes are exhibited most prominently. This kind of discussion form is the oldest types of social media (Grahl, …show more content…
Most of them even provide additional features such as user profiles, commenting about the corresponding uploaded content etc. The most popular among this are YouTube and Flickr. Micro blogging services that focuses on little changes or updates that would be sent out to another person who is subscribed to receive the updates. The most popular micro blogging site is Twitter.11. Blog Comments and Forums online forums allow users of the site to hold up the discussion by posting up the messages. These are similar but differ in attaching blogs and regularly they maintain the discussion centres around the subject or issue of the corresponding blog post. There are many popular blogs and online forums for users based on the search like IT, sports, education, programming etc. E-commerce a big shopping trend that is emerging between us is the possibility of seeing and purchasing desired product with a click of icon or button. Most of the favourite shopping shops such as Myer, IKEA all going online to attract the users. Online reviews location based services like Urban spoon and Yelp help more users in selection of dining, tourist, kids ply centers, renting or buying a home in selected area with their friends or recommendations provided by other users who utilized the benefits. It’s becoming vital to record user reviews either positive or
This generates a user-friendly environment with the people who are even in the other-end of the world without giving up the intimacy of interaction between person-to-person. There are lot types of social media we normally group social media into eight types based on the available sites. Let us analysis each type of available and most common types of social media among the people in detail. Social networking services that let people get connected with the other people based on the similarity in their interest and background. It consist of a user profile, various methods to get interacted with other available users, possibility to form groups, post status, make comments on recent news etc.,The most popular among this is Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn. Social news services that let people to post various news or links to the current happenings or articles and then make users to vote their response regarding the items posted. The community also has an eye in the new items that is viewed by majority of people. The news items are displayed based on the number of votes. The voting is the centre aspect in social media as the items that receive the most votes are exhibited most prominently. This kind of discussion form is the oldest types of social media (Grahl, …show more content…
Most of them even provide additional features such as user profiles, commenting about the corresponding uploaded content etc. The most popular among this are YouTube and Flickr. Micro blogging services that focuses on little changes or updates that would be sent out to another person who is subscribed to receive the updates. The most popular micro blogging site is Twitter.11. Blog Comments and Forums online forums allow users of the site to hold up the discussion by posting up the messages. These are similar but differ in attaching blogs and regularly they maintain the discussion centres around the subject or issue of the corresponding blog post. There are many popular blogs and online forums for users based on the search like IT, sports, education, programming etc. E-commerce a big shopping trend that is emerging between us is the possibility of seeing and purchasing desired product with a click of icon or button. Most of the favourite shopping shops such as Myer, IKEA all going online to attract the users. Online reviews location based services like Urban spoon and Yelp help more users in selection of dining, tourist, kids ply centers, renting or buying a home in selected area with their friends or recommendations provided by other users who utilized the benefits. It’s becoming vital to record user reviews either positive or