My first thoughts around this essay topic is to define Social Media, and write about social network sites such as Twitter/Facebook/Dating sites. Also, I want to adress the issues surrounding the problems regarding people altering their identity to their benefits. People making fake profiles to lure people ti believe they are someone else. I started to look for academic articles, and i found at least one i am going to use.
Abstract:The concept of Social Media is top of the agenda for many business executives today. Decision makers, as well as consultants, try to identify ways in which firms can make profitable use of applications such as Wikipedia, YouTube, Facebook, Second Life, and Twitter. Yet despite this interest, there seems to be very limited understanding of what the term “Social Media” exactly means; this article intends to provide some clarification. We begin by describing the concept of Social Media, and discuss how it differs from related concepts such as Web 2.0 and User Generated Content. Based on this definition, we then provide a classification of Social Media which groups applications currently subsumed under the generalized term into more specific categories by characteristic: collaborative projects, blogs, content communities, social networking sites, virtual game worlds, and virtual social worlds. Finally, we present 10 pieces of advice for companies which decide to utilize Social Media.
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