social media

SOCIAL MEDIA

To me, the social media is humongous and rather scary as it compromises of so many types of media. In the diagram below, you can see that there are so many types of categories and subcategories.

In this first diagram, the different forms of social media are divided into their purposes, for example for games, publishing or sharing. I personally prefer the second diagram as i think it has more categories and goes more in depth (twitter has it own category).

[ the colours are also much more appealing (: ]

So what is social media?
(this is a very interesting video!)

Let the Social Media Revolution begin.....

I will be focusing on 3 forms of social media, namely RSS, blogs and instant messaging.

Out of these 3 forms, RSS is the most foreign to me. Before this class, I did not know what RSS was, what the logo looked like and what its functions were. However, after getting to know RSS, I think it is a very useful tool.

So what is RSS?

RSS stands for Rich Site Summary, where it is an application that alerts those who have signed up whenever there are new updates on a specific website. I find this very useful as it would save me the trouble of constantly checking the website for updates. Although one would not need this application for online shops, this would be very useful for other purposes such as….

YES!

Automatic updates for my weekly dosage of dramas. Although the site does mention the approximate time new episodes would be uploaded, having this RSS application would make things so much easier.

~Blogs~
The first thing that comes to my mind when I think of Blogs, are online shops, where we girls can find pretty clothes and accessories. However, the focus this time would be on blogs where people voice out their opinions.

How true is it? I feel that it is rather true that bloggers may be a little more truthful than advertisements as they are viewed as being honest? To me, advertisements would always portray their products in a positive light thus they are too unreal and cannot always be trusted. However, in the case of bloggers, I see them as normal people like me, so I am more trusting. BUT, due to the pervasiveness of media even into blogs, some bloggers may also be sponsors for certain products. Therefore, even personal blogs have been invaded and become commercialized.

To me, blogs are a virtual diary, where they have become a useful place to rant about one's daily happenings, to share with friends in detail and also to keep as remembrance. Sometimes, a person's life can even attract followers and a person can even make some money out of it.

In the picture above, it shows the life of a girl who draws simple pictures to depict her life, her happiness and sadness. Although simple, it is very interesting. From the many comments that she receives, one can see that she has many supporters, till..... she is now able to publish her own book with her cartoons.

And yes, blogs have also become a platform for anyone to sell their stuff online, anywhere, anytime, to anyone. Ten years ago, who would have thought that we would have virtual shops?

~Instant messaging~

Instant messaging is one application on my computer that I have to run every time I turn on the computer, without it I would feel lonely and detached from my friends.

Here is the picture of my trusted application.

Instant messaging is an application that lets users talk to their friends in real-time. Furthermore, instant messaging has constantly upgraded itself, making it more appealing to its users by adding applications such as games and skins ( as seen by my Bear skin), that allows users to customize almost anything to suit their individual preferences.

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