The Influence Of Social Media

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What is social media?
Social media are computer-mediated tools that allow people to create, share or exchange information, ideas and pictures and videos in virtual communities and networks. From status updates on Facebook, tweets on Twitter, viral videos on YouTube and lately pins on Pinterest, social media takes on many different forms, including social networking sites like Facebook, blogs and microblogs like Twitter and WordPress, content communities like YouTube and Flickr and so on.
Community formation where people can create, publish and share ideas in cyber space is the essence of social media. An important thing to state is that social media is a two-way street for communication, which is the opposite of traditional media where a message is delivered to the masses using a one-way approach, e.g. radio, television and newspaper. ‘Moreover, they are also those media which give you the possibility to communicate with more than one person at a time which includes social networking sites like Facebook and MySpace, …show more content…

What is more, social media can be considered as a futuristic opportunity for enhanced communition, a huge sharing base and thousands of platforms and internet tools available for society. This easier way of interaction of the 21st century is convenient for internet users as it utilizes and frees them to exchange photos, text, audio, video and information. An example of a social platform is the popular website Twitter, in which a person can choose how much to share about his or her personal life with the other members of the community. ‘The result is an enormous amount of information that can be easily shared, searched, promoted, disputed, and created’. ‘According to the article "The Emerging Role of Social Media in Political and Regime Change" by Rita Safranek, "The Middle East and North Africa region has one of the most youthful populations in the world, with people under 25 making up between 35-45% of the population in each country. They make up the majority of …show more content…

‘It is the type of electronic interaction that the largest number of teenagers have ever used (87%), it is the most frequently used (68% text daily), and, excluding meetings face-to-face, it is by far the most popular way to communicate with friends (33% of teens choose texting as their favorite way to communicate with friends, compared to 7% who like to communicate through their social networking site, 4% who like to talk on the phone, and 1% each who prefer using instant messaging or

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