What is a Social Media Site?

[Jody]

Social media is a consumer generated media (CGM) that includes a blending of techology and social interaction for the co-creation of value. Site is short for Website. The social media site is the website related to web pages containing content such as text, images, video, audio, etc, and is accessible and available via a network such as the Internet or a private local area network through an Internet address known as a uniform resource locator..

Social media technology comes in many different forms; internet forums, weblogs, social blogs, microblogging (Twitter), wikis (collaborative efforts), podcasts, photos and pitures, magazines, video ratings and social bookmarking.

There are 6 different types of social media sites:

collaborative projects; Wikipedia
blogs and microblogs; Twitter
content communities; YouTube
social networking sites; Facebook
virtual game worlds; World of Warcraft
virtual social worlds; Second Life