3. A glimpse of Social Media
What is Social Media
Facts
Types of Social Media
Effects of Social Media
Future of Social Media
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4. • Web 2.0
• Social interaction
• Virtual Communities
• Interactive Platform
• Internet forums, weblogs, social blogs, microblogging, wikis, social
networks, podcasts, photographs or pictures, video, rating and social
bookmarking
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5. • Over 50% of the world’s population is under 30-years-old
• 96% of them have joined a social network
• Facebook tops Google for weekly traffic in the U.S.
• Social Media has overtaken porn as the #1 activity on the Web
• 1 out of 8 couples married in the U.S. met via social media
• Facebook added over 200 million users in less than a year
• iPhone applications hit 1 billion in 9 months.
• If Facebook were a country it would be the world’s 3rd largest ahead
of the United States and only behind China and India.
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6. Types of Social Media
collaborative
projects
(Wikipedia)
Social
Media
blogs and
microblogs
(Twitter)
content
communities
(YouTube)
social
networking
sites
(Facebook)
virtual social
worlds
(Second Life)
virtual game-worlds
(World of
Warcraft)
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7. Effects of Social media c
• Businesses can connect with their targeted customers
• Attention gainer for the bloggers, article writers and content creators.
• Opened opportunity
• Removal of all the communication and interaction barriers
• Unite people
• Exposure to information
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8. Effects of Social media cccccc
• A False Sense of Connection
• Cyber-bullying
• Decreased Productivity
• Privacy
• Addiction
• Impact on kids and teenagers
• Information overload
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9. Future of Social Media
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Redesign CRM,
ERP
Governments
and politician
Democratization
of influence
Crash courses
Merging Virtual
and Real World
