Wednesday, 16 March 2016

Unique Characteristics of Social Media

Unique Characteristics of Social Media

Internet has changed people’s lifestyle as well as habits. Every human has a need and wish to communicate with others and exchange information, ideas, news etc. Internet has enabled people across the world to interact with one another. Truly the internet has erased the barriers between nations. Social media is growing everyday there is hardly anybody that isn’t participating in one or other type of social media be it exchanging emails, using chat or posting photographs and exchanging music.
Participation social media encourages contributions and feedback from everyone who is interested. It blurs the line between media and audience.

Openness Most social media services are open to feedback and participation. Comments and sharing information. They are rarely any barriers to accessing and making use of content (password protected content is frowned upon)

Conversation whereas traditional media is about “broadcast” (content transmitted or distributed to an audience) social media is seen as a two way conversation.

Community social media allows communities to form quickly and communicate effectively. Communities share common interests, such as a love of photography and cars, a political issue or favorite TV show.

Connectedness most kinds of social media thrive on their connectedness making use of links to different sites, and resources. Such as Blogs Wikipedia’s and forums.

Disadvantages of the Internet Messages can be caught up in commercial noise. Harder to gauge participation and commitment. Not as effective as a face to face conversation. User drop-out. Hits do not necessarily indicate attitude change.



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  1. Social media is not as connecting as a face to face conversation, and can cause confusion since the true emotion of the person can not be seen. However, a sense of community can be quickly formed upon contacting with people all over the world. - Harley

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