Social
media is the collective of online communications channels. There are in forms of websites and
applications, for example forums, microblogging, social
networking, social
bookmarking, social
curation, and wikis are among the different types of social media.
Here are some prominent examples of social media:
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Facebook is a popular free social networking
website that allows his users to send messages and keep communicate with friends,
family and colleagues, share news and upload photos and video. According to
statistics from the Nielsen Group, Facebook is the most social networking
website used by Internet users within the United States.
·
Twitter is a free microblogging service that
allows his members to tweet by broadcast short posts. Twitter members can
broadcast tweets and follow other users' tweets by using multiple platforms and
devices.
·
Google+ is Google's social
networking project, designed to replicate the way people interact offline
more closely than is the case in other social networking services.
·
Wikipedia is a free, open content online
encyclopedia created through the collaborative effort of a community of users
known as Wikipedians. Anyone registered on the site can create an article for
publication; registration is not required to edit articles. Wikipedia was
founded in January of 2001.
Brian Solis created the following social media chart, known as the
conversation prism, to categorize social sites and services into various types
of social media.




