We listen a word "Social Media" very often in our daily life which is changing our lives in an intangible way. Usually we think of Facebook, Twitter, MySpace, Rediff, LinkedIn and other social media networks when we listen this word. In this internet era, social media has its own undeniable importance and is influencing
in our lives like a drug which effects slowly and gradually but steadily. We cannot deny this fact as a whole. The popularity and high rankings of social media sites has no need to be explained.
The definition of social media indicates that social media is a platform or internet based application which allow people to interact with each other. The major examples of social media are Facebook, Twitter, MySpace, Rediff, LinkedIn, Tumblr, WhatsApp, Viber, Skype etc.
>The first type of social media is daily life social media where people update their status daily and interact with the people who they also know in real life. Facebook and LinkedIn are most common examples of this.
>The second type is of social media which also gives its users a blogging platform where they can share their views in the form of blogs and people with similar interests can connect with each other. Myspace, Tumblr, Rediff fall in this category. Twitter is also a blogging platform but the term which they use is "Micro-Blogging" which is almost different from the normal blogging or blogs.
>The third type of social media is very common where people share their videos to public. Youtube, MetaCafe, Videofy, Vimeo, DailyMotion, Vube, etc are widely used video sharing social media networks.
>The fourth type is mobile phone app based social media platforms where people can interact with their mobile phone contacts by sharing videos, pictures and texts. WhatsApp is most popular example of this type.
>Fifth type is of video calling and texts based applications by which people can make VOIP calls anywhere totally free and can send text messages. Skype and Viber are most popular apps among them.
Now we have to see the influence of social media in our routine life.
in our lives like a drug which effects slowly and gradually but steadily. We cannot deny this fact as a whole. The popularity and high rankings of social media sites has no need to be explained.
Definition Of Social Media:
Social media may be defined as the groups of different people who are interacting with each other using any internet based platform or app thus sharing their information, pictures, videos and other material.The definition of social media indicates that social media is a platform or internet based application which allow people to interact with each other. The major examples of social media are Facebook, Twitter, MySpace, Rediff, LinkedIn, Tumblr, WhatsApp, Viber, Skype etc.
Different Types Of Social Media:
Social media are of different types and can be used for different purpose.>The first type of social media is daily life social media where people update their status daily and interact with the people who they also know in real life. Facebook and LinkedIn are most common examples of this.
>The second type is of social media which also gives its users a blogging platform where they can share their views in the form of blogs and people with similar interests can connect with each other. Myspace, Tumblr, Rediff fall in this category. Twitter is also a blogging platform but the term which they use is "Micro-Blogging" which is almost different from the normal blogging or blogs.
>The third type of social media is very common where people share their videos to public. Youtube, MetaCafe, Videofy, Vimeo, DailyMotion, Vube, etc are widely used video sharing social media networks.
>The fourth type is mobile phone app based social media platforms where people can interact with their mobile phone contacts by sharing videos, pictures and texts. WhatsApp is most popular example of this type.
>Fifth type is of video calling and texts based applications by which people can make VOIP calls anywhere totally free and can send text messages. Skype and Viber are most popular apps among them.
Now we have to see the influence of social media in our routine life.
Influence Of Social Media:
Social media is influencing our lives in many ways like the distances between us and our relatives have been decreased. We can connect them at any time spending no extra money. It also gives us freedom to speak and to share our thoughts. It makes us feel the freedom which we never expected before their popularity etc. These are common sentences which we listen and read about the importance of social media and these sentences are facts which cannot be denied. But now we think that is social media effecting us only positively?Another View Of Social Media:
No, it isn't. It is also effecting us negatively. The excessive use of social media is bringing a new type of addiction which is destroying people, specially youth in many ways. This addiction is working like a slow poison and making social media users madly addicted to these. Updating status, commenting on others statuses and spending lot of time on social media is preventing us from performing many creative and productive tasks for us. As I always say, the invention is not itself fatal but the negative use of it is making this invention hazardous. Same with these social media sites. They were invented for productive use but the lust for generating more revenue has made this social media conglomerate a group of people who want to make people slaves of their apps. The drug addiction is now a past thing. Social Media addiction is more killing than it. Social media can be used for many creative purposes but only few of us are making right use of it. We should come in the list of those who are using it positively and leave its extra use.
