INTRODUCTION SOCIAL MEDIA

SOCIAL MEDIA

Social media is the collective of online communications channels dedicated to community-based input, interaction, content-sharing and collaboration. There are among the different types of social media.
           Social media is becoming an integral part of life online as social websites and applications proliferate. Most traditional online media include social components, such as comment fields for users. In business, the function of  social media are used to market products, promote brands, connect to current customers and foster new business.
            Social media are technologies that for to the creation and sharing of information, ideas, career interests and other forms of expression. The variety of stand-alone and built-in social media services currently available introduces challenges of definition; however, there are some common features:^[1
                 Social media has shot to the forefront of people's attention because it's fun. Thanks to social media, it's easy to share your ideas, photos, videos, likes and dislikes, with the world at large - and find out what they think of them. You can find friends, business contacts and become part of a community or lots of different communities. Social media gives you what TV never could - a chance to be not only be engaged but to engage others.