Social Media in Our Society

"What is Social Media?"
According to the dictionary, social media is any form of electronic communication in which users create online communities to share information, ideas, personal messages, and other content. So basically, any type of communication that is transmitted by signals allowing people to give and receive information. This information can be anything from a newspaper article to a quick "I love you!" to a loved one. Social media is a faster way to get to everyone and everything, you can literally get to anything with the press of a few buttons.
There are a lot of types of social media although some are used more than others. The most common types of social media are social networks, social news, media sharing, blogs, forums and bookmarking sites. Social media is used for all sorts of things. Some common examples are business marketing, networking, political influences and brand engagement. Businesses use social media to market and show off their products while politically involved people may take another approach like writing articles or starting online polls. Either way, they’re getting the word out there or, that’s the main idea anyway.
Social Networking
Social media is all about staying together and communicating with each other. After all, without being able to communicate, how could we ever get anything done? This brings us to the most common use of social media, social networking. Social networking has made a very big contribution to society, especially over the last few years. There different kinds of social networks, and so many different websites and smart phone apps, but they can be broken down into 7 categories. Those 7 categories are: personal social connections, multimedia sharing, professional soci...

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...oser and certainly more diverse than ever before. Whether it's being able to talk to someone you love whose far away or being able to post your opinion on a forum because you just want someone to know what you have to say, people enjoy social media and it 's really only the beginning.

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