Social Media Me

Many of us have heard about social media usually from internet marketing or search engine marketing. Social media is a phrase that gets thrown around a lot nowadays. However not many people know what exactly is social media. But what is social media anyway?

Social media incorporates the online technology and methods through which people can share content, personal opinions, swap different perspectives and insights into world issues and generally discuss the evolution of media in itself.

Social media website content can come in texts, images, audio and video.  The most popular types of social media websites are gigantic at the moment. Examples of few social media websites that are use for social networking are the likes of Bebo, MySpace and Facebook.

Another example of social media websites are wikis – like Wikipedia it allows you to create, edit and share information about a subject or topic. You Tube is another example for video sharing website and there’s Flickr an example of photo-sharing social media website.

News aggregators like Digg is an example of social media website that provide a list of the latest news stories published by users from a range of different websites. Social bookmarking, online gaming and presence apps are another example of social media websites.

There are many more types of social media sites available on the internet and the trend is moving fast and even if it was possible to list all the varieties of social media websites that exist, it would likely be out of date as new and innovative social media sites spring up nearly every day.

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