Name: Mostafa mahmoudi
Email: amooshelby@gmail.com
I was searching through the internet today and came across an interesting post from Brian Clark, titled Since When Are Blogs Not Social Media?. Here is a quote from it:
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I’ve noticed a strange trend lately.For some reason, people seem to be equating social media with social networking.At the same time, they seem to be treating blogging as something other than social media.
I found his post interesting because that trend is something I have been noticing myself. It looks like for many people social media is the collection of social networking sites like MySpace, Facebook and Twitter.
Well, it is much more than that.
Social media are the various forms of user generated content and the collection of websites and applications that enables people to interact and share information online.
Complicated? Well here is a list of things that are part of the social media:
- online forums (e.g., DigitalPoint)
- blogs (e.g., WordPress)
- social networking sites (e.g., Facebook)
- social bookmarking sites (e.g., Digg)
- video sharing sites (e.g., YouTube)
- photo sharing sites (e.g. Flickr)
- streaming sites (e.g., Ustream)
- user reviews (e.g., Amazon)
- crowdsourcing (e.g., Wikipedia)
- content aggregators (e.g., FriendFeed)
As you can see, social media is much wider than what some people think. It is also much older. We could say that the first Usenet (a form of distributed discussion system) developed in 1980 was already social media.
MOstafa mahmoudi
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MOstafa mahmoudi
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@Mostafa Masoudi: well, it is going to be more confusing these days. nowadays, you can't separate even television, radio, magazine from internet and the new type of media as a social communication. I still insist in my opinion, everything is under control. you like something, you post something, you watch something and they will find all your behaviors, interests and ways of life. then it will be more easier for them to control you. and we are still happy and like everything including me unfortunately!!! thanks for posting this trend mr. mostafa.
ReplyDeleteThis is really interesting. I would say that even though media is having a stronger influence. Any single media is having a smaller influence with the increیible proliferation of media choices as well as one-to-one media such as twitter and other microblogging.
ReplyDeleteDear Mostafa and Mohsen;
ReplyDeleteI agree with both of you. This is really true that we discuss about social media in a wider range than communication networks such as Facebook. In fact, there are a lot of benefits on the web that we don't know about them or we don't pay attention. Knowing how to use websites like twitter and Flickr to introduce our work to the customers is necessary in today's world. In the other hand, by just trusting online facilities and and be happy and think everything is OK is something else. I agree with Mohsen that they evaluate our behavior and control us for their purposes. None of the governments in history let people do whatever they want. How Facebook can let 700 million people decide as they like? We have no choice rather than using social media.but we need keep our consciousness and use our wisdom
Thanks for your valuable posts
Dear Mostafa, Mohsen, Hadi ;
ReplyDeleteI agree with you too.Social media is really good and needed and actually we can use it in many ways this days such some networks, website or many other ways.