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What are the different forms of social media that exist today? - You Wish - 10-14-2012 06:04 AM
What are the different forms of social media that exist today? Provide examples of different social media and their primary purposes.
- Pestyflag948 - 10-14-2012 06:12 AM
What do you mean by social media? Newspapers, television, computer communication, telephones, letters, ??? This is all I think you mean. You could include dating services, personal ads (newspapers) churches, social clubs, service clubs, political parties etc. etc.
- Lisa P - 10-14-2012 06:12 AM
Social media can take many different forms, including Internet forums, weblogs, social blogs, microblogging, wikis, podcasts, pictures, video, rating and social bookmarking.
Examples include: Twitter, FaceBook, Digg, Flickr, Youtube, Blogger, Reddit etc etc etc
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- Bhups - 10-14-2012 06:12 AM
There are basically 7 forms of Social Media.
1. Blogging -- Wordpress, Blogger
2. Social Network -- Facebook, MySpace, Orkut, Hi5, LinkedIn
3. Microblogging -- Twitter, Google Buzz, Yahoo Meme
4. Social Bookmarketing -- Digg, StumbleUpon, Mixx, Reddit
5. Video Sharing -- Youtube,Hulu
6. Broader Content Sharing -- Enips, Scribd, Slideshare
7. Forums -- Yahoo Answers
There are many sites which fall into one or more of these categories. Some people call even social gaming as a part of social media. We may or may not include it.