Social Media

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Social media is media designed to be distributed through social interaction using Internet and web-based technologies.  Social media use is said to be the defining factor in the idea that the current period in time will be defined as the “Attention Age.”

Wikipedia lists the following information and examples of social media:

Social media can take many different forms, including Internet forums, weblogs, social blogs, wikis, podcasts, pictures, video, rating and bookmarking. Technologies include: blogs, picture-sharing, vlogs, wall-postings, email, instant messaging, music-sharing, crowdsourcing, and voice over IP, to name a few. Many of these social media services can be integrated via social network aggregation platforms like Mybloglog and Plaxo.

Examples:

Communication
Collaboration
Multimedia
Reviews and opinions
Entertainment



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