SOCIAL MEDIA

Importance of Community

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Usually community refers to a group of people living in a common geographical location. This group of people obeys some social norms and some common value among themselves. As such, there are so many communities the world over, separated by languages, cultures, or geographical locations. However, they are related to each other in some way or other, thus making entire world a one, single community.

A sense of community is important to establish peace and harmony among the society. The division of work, feeling of association, togetherness, and cooperation - all these help in establishing a healthy atmosphere filled with unity, harmony and friendship.

The sense of a community is also important in fostering a feeling of intra-national as well as international brotherhood. Let us discuss these points, in an absence of which there will be complete chaos in the community.. ^[1]
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[1]http://www.buzzle.com/articles/what-is-the-importance-of-a-community.html

What can you really do with social media?

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Accessible to potential customers through social networks. Traditional marketing methods and marketing

studies can be executed more effectively and quickly. In addition, public relations, business communications, marketing, advertising and so on. communication channels can be used.But, mostly social media is used to socializing, communicating with other people. Moreover, people use share details such as life of acquaintances with each other.

Community

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Community is the largest group that the individual belongs. The relationship between people with the awareness of being together creates community. It is a group of people that shared conditions and basic elements of a common life and organized. Community is a social relations texture in this sense. Therefore, defination of community is universal.

What important developments in the last 24 months should I know about?

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Gradually increased the number of pages of corporate blog due to increasingly widespread use of the Internet and affect wider masses for a very short period of time.
Importance of Online Public Relations is increased due to the growing importance of social media, as well as traditional public relations methods.
Turkey gained greater momentum at list of the fastest growing countries in network of the business world's social network LinkedIn.
Social network created by Google as a competitor to Facebook , Google Plus is the latest example of the social media..

Photo sharing network, Instagram has gained in popularity. Instagram is bought by Facebook due to the Android application published last April.
Bebo is one of the new generation of social networks. Although the the industry giants such as Facebook, Myspace, Bebo's popularity is increasing day by day. According to the latest data, so that google has become the most sought-word Bebo.
Stumbleupon that is including all the social networking websites. You are took to the most beautiful site in the Internet with appreciation of other people in the world by Stumbleupon.

Why new media and social media?

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New media is that traditional media have a digitalized status. I choose new media. Because, I'd like to transfer only the information I do not want to get feedback.

Social media have interaction. I choose social media. Because, I would like to get feedback from my comments. I'd like to see expectations, suggestions and other comments.

History of Social Media

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1978:

- Ward Christensen and Randy Suess, two computer fans, invented the CBBS system to inform their friends about meetings, make announcements and share information.

1993:

- Several students from the University of Illinois developed Mosaic, which was presented as the first browser adapted to the general public.

- Launch of GeoCities, a service that allows users to create their own web pages.

1995:

- The Web has one million websites.

1997:

- GeoCities surpasses one million users.

- AOL Instant Messenger allows Internet chat.

- Blogging begins.

- Google launches.

1998:

- GeoCities goes public.

- Friends Reunited, the first social network to become popular among Internet users, was founded in the UK to find old school mates.

- Yahoo! buys GeoCities for 3.57 billion dollars.

- The Blogger platform launches.

- The dotcom bubble burst and the future of Internet is more uncertain than ever.

2000:

- 70 million computers are connected to the Internet.

- Friendster launches. The social network reaches 3 million users in just three months.

2002:

- AOL has already reached 34 million users.

- MySpace is launched.

2003:

- Google buys the Blogger platform.

- Second Life launches.

- LinkedIn launches social network for professionals.

2004:

- Facebook is born. An unknown investor offers Mark Zuckerberg $10 million to buy the famous social network. Facebook founder declines the offer.

- MySpace surpasses Friendster in number of page views.

- Digg launches.

- Bebo – an acronym for blog early, blog often – launches as another social networking site.

2005:

- News Corp. buys MySpace for $580 million.

- Viacom offers to buy Facebook for $75 million, but the social network rejects the offer.

- Friends Reunited, which already has 15 million users, is sold to the ITV television network.

- YouTube is launched.

- MySpace is the most popular social network in the U.S..

2006:

- Viacom returns with an offer to to buy Facebook for $1.5 billion, but the deal falls through. Yahoo! also made an offer of $1 billion to take over the social network, but Facebook declined.

- Google generates about 400 million searches every day.

- Twitter is born.

2007:

- Facebook surpasses MySpace in number of unique users per month.

- Google makes an offer of 15 billion dollars to buy Facebook.

- Apple introduces the iPhone.

2008:

- Facebook is now the largest social network worldwide with over 200 million users. The social network’s traffic is twice that of MySpace.

- AOL buys Bebo.

- Facebook tries to buy Twitter for 500 million dollars.

- Tumblr launches.

2009:

- Twitter breaks the news of a plane crash in the Hudson River.

- “Unfriend” is the New Oxford Dictionary word of the year.

- Microsoft launches Bing to compete directly with Yahoo and Google.

- Facebook surpasses 400 million users, and also surpasses Google in weekly traffic.

- MySpace loses its popularity and the number of users shrinks to 57 million.

2010:

- In order to compete with Facebook and Twitter, Google launches Buzz, a social network built into Gmail.

- AOL sells Bebo to Criterion Capital Partners.

- Apple launches the iPad.

- There are an estimated 1.97 billion users worldwide, representing 30 percent of the population.

- The Internet surpasses newspapers as main source of information among Americans.

- Tumblr generates more than 1 billion page views per month and over 2 million daily posts.

- Pinterest launches.

- There are over 550 million users on Facebook, 65 million tweets sent per day, and 2 billion YouTube videos watched each day.

- LinkedIn now has 90 million users worldwide and goes public.

2011:

- Apple launches the music social network Ping.

- News Corp. sells MySpace to digital media firm Specific Media for $35 million.

- MySpace and Bebo are redesigned to compete with Facebook and Twitter.

- Facebook reaches an annual revenue of 3.7 billion dollars.

- Google + launches.

-Pinterest launches as a content curation site.

-Pinterest competitor Snip.it launches.

2012:

- Facebook files for an IPO. At its premiere in the stock trading floors, the network aims to collect 10 billion dollars. Its value is estimated between 75 and 100 billion dollars.

- Twitter generates 12,233 tweets per second during the Super Bowl.

Disadvantages of Social Media

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As it relates to social networking in the workplace, there is no one-size-fits-all approach. Benefits of social networking platforms vary based on platform type, features and the company itself.

Social networking platforms may allow organizations to improve communication and productivity by disseminating information among different groups of employees in a more efficient manner, resulting in increased productivity. While it is not meant to be all-inclusive, the list below outlines some of the possible disadvantages.

Disadvantages of Social Media

Opens up the possibility for hackers to commit fraud and launch spam and virus attacks.
Increases the risk of people falling prey to online scams that seem genuine, resulting in data or identity theft.
May result in negative comments from employees about the company or potential legal consequences if employees use these sites to view objectionable, illicit or offensive material.
Potentially results in lost productivity, especially if employees are busy updating profiles, etc.

Advantages of Social Media

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As it relates to social networking in the workplace, there is no one-size-fits-all approach. Benefits of social networking platforms vary based on platform type, features and the company itself.

Advantages of Social Media

Facilitates open communication, leading to enhanced information discovery and delivery.
Allows employees to discuss ideas, post news, ask questions and share links.
Provides an opportunity to widen business contacts.
Targets a wide audience, making it a useful and effective recruitment tool.
Improves business reputation and client base with minimal use of advertising.
Expands market research, implements marketing campaigns, delivers communications and directs interested people to specific web sites.

Usage of Social Media

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At these Web sites, individuals and groups create and exchange content and engage in person-to-person conversations.

They appear in many forms including blogs and microblogs, forums and message boards, social networks, wikis, virtual worlds, social bookmarking, tagging and news, writing communities, digital storytelling and scrapbooking, and data, content, image and video sharing, podcast portals, and collective intelligence.

There are lots of well-known sites such as Facebook, LinkedIn, MySpace, Twitter, YouTube, Flickr, WordPress, Blogger, Typepad, LiveJournal, Wikipedia, Wetpaint, Wikidot, Second Life, Del.icio.us, Digg, Reddit, Lulu and many others.

Defination Social Media

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Social media are Internet sites where people interact freely, sharing and discussing information about each other and their lives, using a multimedia mix of personal words, pictures, videos and audio.