What Is Social Media?
Connect with others by giving them access to your Individuals, companies and government entities What is Social Media? page by “friending them.” Friends may add post videos, which may be viewed by anyone on comments on your page and use the “like” button the Internet. Popular videos include step-by-step Social media are online tools that allow people to to show their opinion of pictures and posts. instructional videos and music performances. create, share or exchange information, ideas, pictures, and videos online with others. You may “like” the Facebook pages of Snapchat is a mobile-based application other individuals, companies and that allows you to share a photo or short Different types of social media tools serve government agencies to receive updates of video as a message (a Snap). Snaps automatically different purposes, such as social or business activities on their pages. Simply click where you disappears from the recipient’s device a few networking, photo and video sharing, and see the “like” button. seconds after viewed (although a screenshot may information sharing. Popular social media be taken). websites now combine many of these tools. Photo and Video Sharing Photo and video sharing tools allow you to upload Blogs These tools may be accessed online through your photos and videos online to easily allow others to A blog (short for “web log”) is a web page desktop or laptop computer, netbook, tablet, or see them. Some sites also allow you to upload containing an individual’s or group of individuals’ smart phone. videos and to store your photos and videos. short and usually interactive entries (“posts”) of thoughts, opinions, etc. on topics. Popular Social Media Tools Instagram is an online photo- Tumblr is a popular blog service (Note: Any reference to non-State of Hawaii services sharing and social networking does not constitute or imply an endorsement by the service with applications that let users take, edit, used to post text, photos, quotes, State of Hawaii.) and share photos. These photos may also be links, audio and video. (Note that many blogs shared through other social networking services place few restrictions on the content that may be Some of the categories of social media and like Facebook. posted.) examples of popular, free social media tools are: Flickr and Google Photos are Microblogs Social Networking other photo sharing websites. These services also Microblogs are a form of blog that allow its users Social networking services allow people, provide video sharing and online photo and video to exchange small messages, such as a short companies and government entities to form social storage, called hosting services. sentence, a link to a website or video, or a picture. relationships to share their backgrounds, activities, thoughts and interests. YouTube is the most popular Twitter is a popular microblog video sharing service that allows used by individuals, companies Facebook is the world’s you to share videos and to watch videos posted and government entities. Account holders post most popular social by others. Videos hosted on YouTube may be (“tweet”) short messages online. networking service. Register to create your own posted in other places, such as your Facebook facebook page to share photos, posts, and other page. information. You may “follow” specific twitter Location accounts to automatically receive These tools allow location-specific information tweets of the account holder posted in real-time. sharing. Examples include: Social Curation Google Person Finder. Google Person Finder These tools allow the collection and sharing of helps people connect in the aftermath of natural content related to an identified topic or area of and humanitarian disasters by providing a registry Internet Basics interest. and an online message board.
Reddit is a social news website Waze is the world’s largest and forum with content shared community-based traffic tool. by and voted on by members. One feature allows Drivers share real-time traffic and road information, such as accident information. users to ask questions to public figures who
participate in an “ask me anything” session. Business Networking Social Media
These tools are used to form and foster business Pinterest is a content sharing service relationships. for images. Members ‘pin’ photos, videos and
other objects to their pinboards, which are Linkedin is the world’s largest organized by selected categories. business professional online
network. Post your work history, capabilities, Reviews and Ratings accomplishments, resume and search for jobs or These tools provide access to online reviews, join work-related groups. ratings, and recommendations provided by other users. Popular websites include: Social Gaming Yelp provides user reviews on Play games, including puzzle, board and video restaurants and businesses. games, with one or more persons online.
Amazon.com provides user reviews on the vast list of products it sells.
TripAdvisor provides reviews The Department of Commerce and Consumer on travel-related services including hotels, Affairs, Cable Television Division, works to restaurants and tours in cities around the world. promote broadband adoption and use.
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