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What is Social Media

What is this Social Media? Probably everyone knows the answer because today everyone is using social media. Yes, among friends, the social medias I am talking about are nothing but these are Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and other networks. We know about the networks, if we do not know, it is nothing but connecting with other things. For example, such as Blogging's network, Business's network.

In the same way, social media means to connect with people through social communication. It is just like Physical Network, it just happens in network online. Since now is the time of online, people use this social media to communicate among themselves, to increase contacts or to exchange their live things and information. Many times it has been found that many of our friends and relatives do not live with us and some live abroad, so social media is very useful for us to interact with them and maintain friendship.

That is why today I thought that you will know about what social media is and how it has become a major part of our life. Just to give full information about this thing today, I have selected this topic, so what is the delay, let's start.

What is Social Media?

Social Media is also known as Social Media Service. This means connecting with your friends and relatives using the Internet. Where you exchange friendship, relationship, education, interests with each other. With this, we can know about the events happening in the country and abroad. With this, we can learn about the interests of others and can also explore them.

Generally, Social Media Services allow users to create a profile. We can mainly divide them into two broad categories.

1) Internal Social Media (ISN)
2) External Social Media (ESN)

1. Internal Social Media (ISN)

ISN is mainly a closed and private community where small or small amount of people are connected, it is like a community between those people. Here, an invitation is required to join this network. And you can join them only on invitation. For example, an Education group, Photography group or Hacking Community or a Secret Forum.

2. External Social Media (ESN)

ESN is mainly open and public community where people are connected in large or large scale, it is like a community among these people. Here anyone can join this network who wants to join it. It mainly attracts more advertisers as there is more traffic here. Users can add their picture here and can also become "friends" with others. For example, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, MySpace, Ask etc.

Often, in social media, a user cannot link between themselves unless they confirm to some other people.

Characteristics of Social Media

 

1. Web space
The website provides the users free web space to upload content.

2. Web address
The users are given an extraordinary web address that turns into their web personality. They can post and share all their contents on this web address.

3. Build profiles
Users are is approached to enter personal details like name, address, date of birth, school, college education and professional details etc. The site at that point mines the individual information to interface people.

4. Connect with friends
Users are urged to post individual and expert updates about themselves. The site at that point turns into a stage to associate companions and family members.

5. Upload content in real time
Users are provided the tools to post content in real time. This content can be text, pictures, sound, video or even representative preferences. The last post comes first, giving the site freshness.

6. Enable conversations
Individuals are given the rights to comment on posts made by friends and relatives. The discussions are an extraordinary social interface.

7. Posts have time stepped
All posts are time stepped, making it simple to follow posts.

Types of Social Media

We can understand the type of social media based on its usage-

Business applications

Using social media properly is very beneficial for entrepreneurs and small business. With this, they can make their business bigger by joining with many people. They can also advertise their products using social media. Because Social Medias operate all over the world, with the help of this, we can contact people in any country of the world and increase our business.

Medical applications

Social Medias are used by many health professionals to manage their institutional knowledge. With this, they can highlight their doctors and institutions in front of people. With this, they can also share their knowledge with other people.

Research

Social media services are now being used for criminal and legal investigations. Information which are located in sites such as MySpace and Facebook are investigated by the police.

Use of Social Media for social good

Many social services use social media in the right way because they know very well that a lot of people visit social media and look for good posts. If they talk to them about their social service, then maybe some people will agree to join them in this good work. This increases the number of his audience and his followers as well. By working together like-minded people (like-minded people), they can easily achieve many impossible goals. And can do something different and better for this society.

What are the Risks of Social Media?

They say that there are two aspects of the coin; similarly, using social medias can be equally risky if we do not know how to use it. Because in online we can find many such frauds and molesters who can trick us by pretending to be friends and make us do wrong things. So let's know a little more about this.

1. Loss of our privacy: All the data, information, photo, video or file that we upload on social media becomes a part of that, which later becomes part of administrators' files. In return, if a hacker hacks that system, then he can easily get all our data and can also use it incorrectly. So never save all your information on any social media.

2. Access of inappropriate content: Since there is less control over our network, so the information we see on the Internet may also come in front of us in bad and inappropriate content even if we do not want it. They can be of any humus, such as violent, sexual, or things related to nerves etc. These things can also be published or shared on social media by some other people in the form of links, notices.

3. Harassment by Colleagues, acquaintances or strangers: The main two fundamental cases can be seen here.

Cyber bullying: Harassment that is done by any colleagues or strangers through threats, insults, etc. in this network.

Cyber grooming: These are mainly done by adults with minors so that they can get their photos and information from them, which they can later use to get their work done.

Advantages of Social Media

We can see social media as a structure where people maintain variety of relationship like friendly, working, commercial, informative etc. But now the Internet has become a fundamental tool of communication, from students to large companies, from politicians to police corporations; It uses it to investigate any of your favorite topics of interest, or to complete a transaction or to chat with a friend. Therefore, if it is not used properly, it can also dominate us. So let's discuss again about the advantages and disadvantages of social media.

·         Social media can be used to advertise something.

·     School activities can also be done easily, even if all the members are from different states.

·    If our relatives or friends are living far away, then we can contact them easily with the help of social media and that too at a very low cost.

·         Even we can interact with people in other cities, states or countries.

·  We can easily send and receive various files (such as photographs, documents, etc.).

·         New friends can be made that are of another culture.

·         It helps us to interact in real time.

·      Nowadays political parties are running their online campaign with the help of Social Medias.

·   Here we can prepare discussion and debate forums and discuss among ourselves.

·         It helps us to do collaborative learning.

·         It helps commercial networks to deliver their products to the people.

·         This also helps the police to carry out its investigation smoothly.

Disadvantages Social Media

·        Privacy is a very big issue of Social Medias.

·      Here any unknown and dangerous person can get access to all your personal information and which they can later use wrongly.

·         With this use, you start separating yourself from your family and friends because you spend a lot of your time online.

·    To enter social media, you can also tell your age to be wrong, so that you inadvertently bring yourself closer to the online molester. Because you do not understand that much at this young age and those people who can use it wrongly can take it.

·         Possibility of creating fake account increases more.

·         It keeps pulling you in your right side unknowingly and later you become its slave.

·         This gives real relation a lot of damage.

·         More use of computers and gadgets also has a bad effect on your health.

What is the future of Social Media

Since we are living in the technological world where all our things are full of technology. Therefore, the future of social media is also very bright. Its use has increased considerably in a few years. Today people know less about their neighbors but more about the neighbors of others. If seen, this is called social media and nothing but communication happening in the virtual world. Where we have literally many friends, there are communities, etc. Slowly all things are moving more towards the virtual world. In such a situation, the day is not far when all our things will be available in social media.

I sincerely hope that I have given you complete information about what is social media and I hope you all have understood about social media. I request all of you readers that you too should share this information in your neighborhood, relatives and friends, so that we will have awareness among us and everyone will benefit a lot from it. I need your support so that I can convey more new information to you.

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