Sunday, January 31, 2010

What is Social Media, Social network and their Characteristics?

What is Social media?
Term refers to combination of webs, applications, platforms, channels and tool that power the phenomena of peer to peer communication and peer to masses. It is set of tools not, is not destination.
Such as Facebook, Digg, Flicker, Youtube, Delicious.com, Wikipedia, Linkdin and so on.
What is a social network?
It is also combination of webs, applications and platforms to use connection to those people who are hidden in the real world.
Like Facebook, Flicker and Linkdin.
Characteristics of Social Media
Participation
Encourage the people to contribute and give the feed back those who are interested.
Openness
Social media provide the open service to give the comments, participate, voting and share the information.
Conversation
Social media is two way communications in which you add something in any articles and give the feed to author and also give your suggestions. Provide the facility to debating on different topic
Community
Social media allows communities to inform quickly and communicate effectively. In which share the interesting information, thoughts and feelings.
Connected
Social media connected the people and decrease distances among the people and also share the daily activity, ideas and interesting information.

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