Social Media

Social media refers to interaction among people in which they create, share, and/or exchange information and ideas in vitual communities and networks. Social media  is defined as "a group of Internet-based applications that build on the ideological and technological foundations of web 2.0, and that allow the creation and exchange of User- generated content." Furthermore, social media depend on mobile and web-based technologies to create highly interactive platforms through which individuals and communities share, co-create, discuss, and modify user-generated content. They introduce substantial and pervasive changes to communication between organizations, communities, and individuals.

Social media differ from traditional/industrial media in many ways, including quality, reaches, frequency, usability, immediacy, and permanence.There are many effects that stem from internet usage. Internet users continue to spend more time with social media sites than any other type of site. At the same time, the total time spent on social media in the U.S. across PC and mobile devices increased by 37 percent to 121 billion minutes in 2012 compared to 88 billion minutes in 2011. For content contributors, the benefits of participating in social media have gone beyond simply social sharing to building reputation and bringing in career opportunities and monetary income.

Much of the criticism of social media is about its exclusiveness  as most sites do not allow the transfer of information from one to another, disparity of information available, issues with trustworthiness and reliability of information presented, concentration, ownership of media content, and the meaning of interactions created by social media. However, it is also argued that social media have positive effects such as allowing the democratization of the internet while also allowing individuals to advertise themselves and form friendships.

Social media    Democratization          vitual             Transfer             Ownership               Media

_____________ This is something that you can see.

_____________ The ability to move around information frome one thing to another.

_____________ This is when you have possession of an object or the rights to an object.

_____________ This is tools to store and deliver informational data.

_____________ This is the transfer to a more democratic system.

_____________This is the storing and delivering of social informational data.

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