What is Social Media?

What is Social Media?

Social media are computer-mediated tools that allow people to create, share, or exchange information, career interests, ideas, and pictures/videos in communities and networks. 

platforms like twitter, Facebook, and Linkedin have created online communities where people can share as much or as little personal information as they desire with other members. The result is an huge amount of information that can be easily shared, searched, promoted, disputed, and created.

Use that have developed within and around these platforms, websites, and tools are endless in number and functions, but all make online sharing and searching.

Social media features

User accounts: at a site allows user create their own account that they can log into, which is social interaction through a user account. 

Profile pages: a profile page is to represent an individual. It often includes information about the individual user, like a profile photo, bio, website, feed of recent posts, recommendations, recent activity and more.

Friends, followers, groups, hashtags: Individuals use their accounts to connect with other users. They can also use them to subscribe to certain forms of information.

News provides : When users connect with other users on social media, they're basically saying, "I want to get information from these people." That information is updated for them in real-time.

Personalisation: Social media sites  give users the flexibility to their user settings, customize their profiles to look a specific way, organise their friends, manage the information they see in their news provides and even give feedback on what they do or don't want to see.

Notifications: The site or app can notifies users about specific information. Users have total control over these notifications and can choose to receive the types of notifications that they want.

Information updating, saving or posting: A site or an app allows you to post absolutely anything, with or without a user account. It could be a simple text-based message, a photo upload, a YouTube video, a link to an article or anything else.

Buttons and comment sections: Two of the most common ways we interact on social media are buttons that represent a "like" and comment sections where we can share our thoughts.

Review, rating or voting systems: lots of social media sites and apps are rely on the collective effort of the community to review, rate and vote on information that they know about or have used. For example your favorite shopping sites or movie review sites that use this social media feature.



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