This is a mind map of the six different forms of social media
Summary of topics
§Social networking-
Websites that allow people to socialize on a daily basis. These websites
usually allow people to share information with each other including videos,
pictures, information and voice notes. These websites are usually free for
basic use and only require payment for special service. The original intent of
these websites was to allow others to socialize easily without the hassle of
having to concern ones self with matters such as cost. Examples of these sites
include MSN, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Snap-chat etc.
§Media
sharing- Services that allow people to share different types of media
such as videos, pictures, text, music etc. There are a number of services that
allow users to do so. These services range from social networking sites such as
YouTube and Instagram to web browsers that have been
specially modified to make sharing easier such as Torch and Google Chrome.
These web browsers usually share through other social sites such as Facebook.
Usually these sites have addition social features such as profiles, liking and
commenting etc. In order to share users would often have to create accounts,
however there are instances where you would not have to create an account such
as ask.fm.
Reasons for choice
§The
reason I have chosen Social Networking Sites and Media Sharing was, because I
believe the two are the most closely related and wish to elaborate on how they
work together. Also I often use such features myself so I believe I have the
most knowledge and experience between these two topics in comparison to the
other four. Information on these topics are also widely spread across the
internet making it easier to find information.
The original idea of
social networking was to allow users to interact more easily in a way that it
has never been done before with a minimal or no cost. Nowadays the original
intent still stands, however a number of social networking sites are more
considered with business and have become a business in there own right. Other
companies will use these site to send messages and information about their new
products in the form of advertisements. In order to do so these companies would
have to pay the owner(s) of the site(s) a substantial amount of money? This is one
of the reasons social networking sites have become so popular
We have conducted extensive research
on a number of articles. By doing so we have discovered a number of
psychological effects that re-occur with the users of social networking sites.
We plan on using these effects to our advantage in order to promote our product
to a wide audience. In order to promote this further we plan on incorporating
the idea of media sharing devices in order to aid our goals.
Through this research we have learned
how to comprise ideas for our product as well as plan out how it will be
promoted in the near future. Since we were able to do this we are now able to
take precautions on the subjects goal.
