What is social media?

Social media

What is social media?

The term social media describes online activities on social networks where users exchange and comment on media content.
SocioON is also a Social media website and this is Pakistan First Social Media.

Basically, social media has become a term that describes a large number of digital media, applications, and technologies of Web 2.0. These have in common that users can interact communicatively via a specific platform on the Internet, both via messages and comments, as well as actively participate in the design of media content.

With this user-generated content, social media clearly separates itself from the traditional mass media (print, film, radio, and television), as social media monologues create socio-media dialogues. The user, so far mostly only consumer is freed by the wide possibilities and low entry barriers of social media itself to the producers and thus formally from his media immaturity: He can actively participate in the design and distribution of news and content. In this context, one often speaks of the democratization of knowledge and the media.

Social media applications

Social media enables not only companies but also a very private person, to attract the attention of millions of viewers or readers with a good idea or a sharp opinion. The common means of communication are text, image, audio, and video, which are often linked to each other via links across platforms.
Typical social media applications are weblogs like Spreeblick, microblogging services like Twitter, social networks like Facebook or StudiVZ, recommendation portals like Qype, photo sharing platforms like Flickr or video sharing platforms like YouTube. The term social media is said to have fallen for the first time allegedly in a contribution of the US company Guidewire Group at the BlogOn Conference in July 2004.

example
Uschi, who is a trained sausage seller five days a week behind the meat counter, is also interested in the political events in this country. She has been writing a blog for a long time on the topic "What the boys are doing up there" and gives their opinion on the current political situation. Since she discovered Twitter and Facebook for herself, she also informs her growing readership about these channels when something happens on her blog. In addition, she posts videos and diligently comments on the contributions of her readers.