From one-on-one conversations between friends, to multi-billion dollar business alliances, social media has and is transforming the way the world socializes and the way it does business. Some of the more popular sites include facebook, twitter, linkedin, You Tube, My Space and Wikipedia. These networking sites have changed the way that individuals, and increasingly businesses, interact with each other. One of the main characteristics of social media is that it is often treated by users as an informal and temporary mode of communication, similar to a chat with a friend over a drink. However, anything posted on the Internet is semi-permanent and may well be seen by unintended recipients.
One key issue is the ease of finding people on these sites, on Facebook it is so much easier to locate someone you are looking for. Facbook also has more ways to share pictures and videos among friends. A key issue for Twitter is there is a maximum length of 140 characters that can be shared on one “Tweet”. Although these sites are both used for social media networking they are both utilized for different reasons. Twitter is known to be more a message board, and Facebook is full service information website among friends.
Because of this, there has been a massive effect on the amount of socialising between friends and family; using technology in online social messaging websites such as Bebo, MSN, Facebook and many more. Through these social messaging websites, more and more people can interact with their friends and family all over the world. An expert professor David Crystal has supported the idea of web-based messages and disagrees with the view that slang and contractions leads to a lower English standard of language. Although this is a benefit to most people, it has been abused by some people by overusing it and different ‘language’ while typing, which cause differentiation in the way we speak and the way we write. The
Today, the meaning of communication has completely changed. It has become much easier to sustain a relationship through social media and the constant interaction that it provides. In contrast, social media can also prove to destroy relationships. Some people may get so caught up in virtual relationships that they have little to no regard for actual relationships. They may become so used to communicating via internet that they lose basic communication skills and can’t hold a face to face conversation.
They are also fun and a good way to waste time. I would say 95% of the time I visit the social networking sites on my phone instead of the computer. I use facebook to talk with people and share media such as videos and pictures with them and so other people can do the same with me. Usually most of the people I become friends with are people I meet at school or on sports
Web-based communication has even managed to change our spoken conversation, with acronyms such as, lol (laugh out loud) that originally evolved from web-based communication being used in spoken conversation. The internet has dramatically changed the way we communicate with more people communicating via the internet than ever before. Social networking sites such as Facebook have roughly 800million accounts created, half of which are used daily. Over spoken conversation, the internet has became the main way teenagers tend to communicate, using sites such as, Facebook, Twitter, by texting, or by instant messaging. Some people from the older generations may look down on web-based communication, and disagree with it.
Being the most popular form of CMC, approximately 294 billion messages are sent per day, which means more than 2.8 million emails are sent every second and some 90 trillion emails are sent per year, (2010). There is a long list of positive things to say about electronic mail as a form of communication. Used by friends, family, colleagues and businesses, it is a fast way of sending text-based messages. As well as this, emails allow you to forward pictures, documents and music to anyone with an email address and access to the Internet. You can communicate not just across cities, or countries, but also across international boarders.
The core purpose of social bookmarking is clear: to be able to share, and bookmark content with others as well as share useful information without having to save it to a website, thus, having it readily available at any time and any place. Though social media is very popular amongst b2b firms, it seems that social bookmarking is just now taking off. Not many b2b firms currently use these websites, but there is definitely an uprising in the popularity of them amongst the b2b world. In fact, companies such as Microsoft and Intel are realizing the use of these sites and are finding ways to maximize it. Most social bookmarking websites work by letting the user see what others think is interesting as well as post, bookmark and share ideas they may have and want to share.
OVERVIEW The development of technology has changed patterns of interaction and communication among individuals. Many people use the internet to obtain information, discuss and share about some issues. In addition, most people are familiar with social media as media to interact or communicate with their friends, families, and colleagues’ today. Social media facilitates humans to distribute knowledge, experiences, ideas, and opinion among the users through electronic media such as Blogs, Facebook, Twitter and You Tube. (Stieglitz, Brockmann, & Dang-Xuan , 2012).
Facebook is a way to make superficial friends. Those who you don’t talk to very often, but you consider them friends. The dynamics of meeting on Facebook causes you to judge them by their appearance.What’s the first thing you do when you make a friend on Facebook, you look at their profile which gives you a glimpse of their personality and likes/dislikes. And this information might not be an accurate