To begin with, I'd like you to have a think about what social media means to you?
Once you have created a picture in your head, feel free to compare how this compares with somes of the earlier posts.
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Social media means far more then just Facebook and Twitter! It provides me with a place with a where I can communicate with people without barriers such as proximity, time and so forth
ReplyDeleteHate it... but can't imagine life without it! I know most people better as their virtual self! That aint right
ReplyDeletesocial media, hmmmmm - its something which i cant imagine living without except only 10 years ago we did! How did our parents manage hey! Its yourself communicating with the world without wanting to communicate with anyone!
ReplyDeleteSomething which both helps you communicate in different ways with others, and also hiders you in ways you would never imagine
ReplyDeleteI'm ashamed to admit it but, I am a Facebook fanatic and I go on there whenever I can to keep up with freinds and to share photos. It means a lot to me to be able to do this as it isn't always easy to chat to people on the phone, therefore Facebook is a goodd way of letting people who what you are up to.
ReplyDeleteSocial Media makes keeping in touch with people easier than ever before. Personally it allows me to follow friends who I might not necessarily call on the phone yet who I want to keep in contact with. I think the social media platforms like Facebook and Twitter give you an openness that you might not experience offline, allowing you to 'share yourself' more than ever before.
ReplyDeleteFollowing a few requests to give a bit more background, here is a definition of social media that I have used for my dissertation:
ReplyDeleteSocial media is an umbrella term that defines the various activities that integrate:
1. Technology
2. Social interaction between people
It can take many different forms, including Internet forums, message boards, blogs, social networks, wikis, podcasts, pictures and video. Social media is less about the actual technology and more about the way it enables people to interact online. Social media makes it easier for individuals to create, share, and collaborate around common interests and goals. Social media is a move from Web 1.0 which is static website and broadcast to Web 2.0 - channels of engagement. Web 2.0 is about conversation and participation by readership. Social media does not confine us by proximity or time zone!
Source: Paul Taylor Co founder of 6consulting
How does this definition compare with your take and definition of social media?
ReplyDeleteI think social media is a good way of communication. People from anywhere around the world can easily get connected and free to post their comments or share their experience with others whom they even never meet before. Social media also enables common people to speak out their opinion even though they are not the "big people"!
ReplyDeleteSocial media to me, is the future of communication (for better or worse). It breaks the barriers of conventional social interaction, time and space etc..In a way it makes communication much easier. With ever-advancing and widespread of technology, social media has became a part of our daily life without us even realising it.
ReplyDeleteI see social media primarily as a means for relationships between people to be built and established via online tools.
ReplyDeleteA secondary usage of social media would be to establish a dialogue between the public and companies, celebrities, sports teams or any other entities that are important to said individual.
To me social media is a useful (though somewhat over-hyped and over-used) additional tool in our ever increasing web of communication networks. On a personal level it works as a tool for me to reinforce and maintain relationships that I have formed through face to face contact, without ever threatening to replace the need to spend time with friends/family/colleagues etc. On a less personal scale, it affords me exposure to information and work (in the form of art/music/advice/criticism) which I couldn't previously have accessed and vice-versa for the creator accessing me as a consumer. In this sense it's hugely beneficial.
ReplyDeleteTo me social media is an extrememly useful tool for keeping connected with friends.
ReplyDeleteSocial media can also have other benefits such as free advertising of products and events, for example me and a very close friend used social media extensively to promote a radio show, using Facebook to post links to and to advertise our radio show to numerous people.
Social media for me is life. haha. well actually it has become an integral part of my daily life and activities.
ReplyDeletethings like facebook, twitter, youtube, flickr, blogger.com and the multitude of other related sites are probably the first things that come to mind if someone said social media...
I use it as a way to communicate with my friends and to let people know what's going on in my life (whether they care or not.lol)
Social media is just highly effective communication. Before social media it wasn't impossible, but keeping in touch with people require more thought and effort.
ReplyDeleteIt's also given consumers a voice that they never had before. With consumerism at an all time high, SM can be both devastating and powerful to brands.
Social media such as Facebook helps me to keep in contact with friends who I wouldn't necessarily have the time to call otherwise. It's simple to use, an instant way of communicating and above all, it's free! I kept in touch with my brother whilst he was travelling via Facebook and enjoyed viewing his pics etc. It's become part of my routine to check my FB page each day. That said, FB is the only type of social media I really follow. After that, I use the good old telephone and give people a call!
ReplyDeleteThe most valuable property of social media to me is the ability to keep in touch with people who, before facebook, it would have been impossible to keep in touch with. A good example being when I have been travelling I have met a lot of people I would never see, or communicate with again. Facebook has allowed me to keep these people as friends and therefore if they want to meet up again or just get in touch it is so easy. Another example is skype which allows me to keep in contact with friends in America and have hour long calls which I would otherwise not have (due to cost).
ReplyDeleteOn a more general view, social media has allowed people to have a public voice who would otherwise never have got their opinions out there (for better or for worse!) on blogs etc. Even though I don't partake in blogs or forums (apart from this one!), I know this is very valuable to some people.
Social media means to me things like facebook and twitter. More than just the site its the way that businesses use the social networking sites to advertise and access potential clients.
ReplyDeleteI would say that out of the social media websites I can think of I only use facebook, although I do use it a lot! It's really handy to keep in touch, especially when you move around a lot. It's great to keep up to date with friends who live in other countries, and it allows people to continue friendships that would have been lost due to logistics.
Social media combined with technology is destroying human interaction. The sheer volume of people social media connects individuals to and the accelerating advancements in particularly mobile technology takes people out of the moment, people sit in social scenarios checking their smart phones for facebook updates, new blog posts and the latest tweet. They disengage from the actual conversation and the environment they are in, virtual friends become more important than actual people.
ReplyDeleteAnd this is just the first wave of technology and social media combining, future advancements in both areas will only increase the problem and lessen individuals social skills, ultimately we could potentially spend all, if not most, of our time simply communicating and socialising through virtual networks. Destroying human interaction and turning us into advanced pieces of software driving a large virtual network.
Another problem with social networking is the undeniable way it acts as a platform to give more importance to, and increase the human ego. Anyone who has read A New Earth by Eckhart Tolle will understand the problems and dangers of the ego, sites such as facebook and twitter only feed the ego and give people a way to increase the ego in ways previously unimaginable. Uploading pictures of holidays and nights out in fancy clothes and sending out tweets describing fancy things you are doing or how you are feeling, so that 100's even 1,000's of people, most of which are not even true friends, will be able to see. This is pure and simply ego manifesting at a scale previously only available to celebrities.
Anyway, I got to go... someone's posted on my wall.
Some fantastic comments here. It is great to see the way people are interacting with one anothers posts. Some interesting insight I see from Daniel, giving quite a different account of social media. Fantastic to see! Can I just say, to those who may only have a few minutes and only want to make a post or two, can I ask that you prioritise your time towards some of the other topics. As you can see, there are quite a number of posts already for this question which is brilliant but I also need your insight, thought and conversation around the other topics too. Thanks everybody and keep the posts coming!
ReplyDeletefor me, social media is something that make friends (and everyone) get closer! It is a really good tool to keep in touch. Also you can imagine how social media helps you build a good relationship with new friends. Let's say you've just met someone in the party and you can ask him/her for facebook, then you realised that you have 20 common friends with them! What an amazing thing it is!!!!
ReplyDeleteWell, I'd better say that I'm quite addicted to it! lol
I enjoy watching people interact on my wall in facebook, which means they wanna join my story.
:))
Ball Guy,
ReplyDeleteMy answers to all your tabs can be summed up into the following video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lFZ0z5Fm-Ng&feature=related
Hope it helps you...
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Social media for me has had three benefits:
ReplyDelete1. It's made it far easier to keep in touch with more people, especially from school. I could have easily drifted away from far more people had it not been for the ease at which you can keep in some kind of touch via Facebook, etc.
2. It was great when travelling. I know a few people whose sole reason for signing up to Facebook was to keep in touch whilst in far flung places. It gave a sense of never being toooooo far away (good at times, not so good at others!).
3. A recent benefit has been being able to connect more closely with companies. For example, by joining a Facebook group I was able to receive an instant answer from a shop I had used - I'm guessing in the past my question might have dropped into someone's dusty inbox, probably using the email address queriesthatwillneverbeanswered@shop.co.uk.
In my opinion Social Media is a communication platform which allows individuals from around the world to come together and interact. Its one of the fastest growing phenomenon's.. If used intelligently it could provide companies with a global reach as well as great advertisement opportunities..
ReplyDeleteespecially when ads are product or segment specific companies could use social media to target specific groups of individuals..