Social+Media

= Do you use Facebook? Twitter? Myspace? These are ALL examples of Social Media. = Hmm. Why are they all blue, I wonder? :)

Andreas Kaplan and Michael Haenlein, who are from Kelley School of Business at Indiana University, and talk of the challenges AND opportunities of social media, define it 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." This means a lot of different ways to share different information. I'm not just talking about pictures and messages being shared between online "friends" in successful social media networks such as Facebook, twitter, and MySpace. Social Media can share blogs, microblogs, videos, podcasts, RSS feeds, and wikis. There are also social Q&A sites such as Answers.com and Yahoo! Answers that users can use for basic information.

Notice different social media resources working together:

At the top of my Facebook feed, there is a status update that uses the users current location, "Wayside West". Notice in the middle of the screen an example of a combination of social media networks. There is a post on Facebook of an Instagram photo. Instagram is a microblogging for pictures (imagine Twitter with pictures). Also, below the picture is a Twitter usage posted on Facebook as well.

Social Media is a grand term for resources that help people share information.

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