Devolepment Social Media

Social media is an online media, with its users being able to easily participate, share and create content including blogs, social networks, wikis, forums and the virtual world. Blogs, social networks and wikis are the most common forms of social media used by people throughout the world.

     Social networking is a site where everyone can create a personal web page, then connect with friends to share information and communicate. The biggest social networks include Facebook, Myspace and Twitter. If traditional media uses print and broadcast media, social media uses the internet. Social media invites anyone who is interested in participating by contributing and feedback openly, giving comments, and sharing information in a fast and unlimited time.

     When internet and mobile phone technology is advancing, social media is also growing rapidly. Now to access Facebook or Twitter for example, it can be done anywhere and anytime just by using a mobile phone. Thus the speed with which people can access social media results in a large phenomenon in the flow of information not only in developed countries, but also in Indonesia. Because the speed of social media also began to appear to replace the role of conventional mass media in spreading the news.

      The rapid development of social media is now due to everyone being able to have their own media. If you have traditional media such as television, radio, or newspapers, you need a lot of capital and a lot of labor, so the media is different. A social media user can access using social media with an internet network even if the access is slow, without big costs, without expensive tools and done alone without employees. We as users of social media can freely edit, add, modify both writing, images, videos, graphics, and various other content models.

Questions

1.What is social media ?

2.What are the benefits of social media in our lives?

3.What is the meaning of sosial network ?

4.Differences in social media and social networks ?

5.Example of a social media application ?