Social Media and Social Networking

 Social Media

Social media are the online tools and technologies that help us to create, share and exchange information in various formats via virtual communities and network. We make use of the social media for interaction, collaboration and content-sharing. Social media is a very broad term that includes different types of media like videos, wikis, blogs, pictures etc.Social media facilitate the development of online social networks. Social media plays an important role in enhancing education by making access to information quick and easy.

Social Networking

Social networking aims to connect you with other people. It is a service that provides yo a platform to build social relations with other people. You do social networking on social media websites like facebook.

Social Media Tools

Facebook is a popular free social networking website that allows registered users to create profiles, upload photos and video, send messages and keep in touch with friends, family and colleagues. Facebook was launched in  2004 by Mark Zuckerberg. Facebook has more than 2.2 billion monthly active users as of January 2018. The issues on Facebook include internet privacy, fake information and shadow profiles. Statistics says Internet users within the United States spend more time on Facebook than any other website.

Twitter  founded in 2006, is a micro-blogging service which provides facility to broadcast short messages/posts. These posts are called tweets. Tweets were originally restricted to 140 characters, but on November 7, 2017, this limit was doubled for all languages except Japanese, Korean, and Chinese. The user can be tagged in a post by typing '@' before his username, also called 'handle'. The users can follow each other on Twitter.  Individual tweets can be forwarded by other users to their own feed, a process known as a "retweet". Users can group posts together by topic or type by use of hashtags – words or phrases prefixed with a "#" sign.