Social Media on the Internet can take shape in many different ways. Everything from Internet forums and message boards, to blog postings and posted pictures, podcast excerpts and videos! Technologies in the social media space occur in music, file, photo and video sharing, internet messaging, weblog generation.
A few examples of Social Media can be found in several online applications both for personal and business uses. For example, social media is incorporated into major search engine Google as not only a reference tool, but as an example of social networking. Wikipedia is recognized as a online reference source, just as Myspace and Facebook are social networking applications meant for online communication. We see examples of submitted and shared media over YouTube, and Flickr, both examples of user-based shared media on the web.
Social Media takes peoples desire to share, collaborate, work together, and just plain socialize and puts the power of technology behind it!
