Social media is generally a word used to define a number of activities that incorporate technology, social interaction and the creation of words, pictures, video and sound. There are many social media websites on the World Wide Web examples are: MySpace, Facebook, hi5, Orkut, LinkedIn, twitter, Bebo, Friendster, studiVZ, Xing, Twitter, YouTube, and many others. The similarity between all the above listed websites is that they allow the user to: create a profile, or rather open an account that is basically a representation of the user4, albeit digital; form interaction groups with other users who are then listed as the user’s contacts. However, other websites are continually offering competitive platforms such as allowing sharing of photos, work history, location, interests, and even offering a platform for users who are developers to create applications (Salandiak 6).
In short social media is a place that offers the user to establish new relationships, maintain relationships by sharing stories and information as well to engage the world since users are not restricted in terms of country. With such fantastic and interesting serviced it is no wonder that 75% of people who go online are visitors of at least one social network. However, as we have stated earlier in the discussion, soc9ial media websites are many and their purposes are very different. Thus these websites are normally categorized as either: blogs which are online journals such as Blogger and WordPress; Wikis such as Wikipedia; social bookmarking example in this category is twitter; status update services; media sharing sites which include YouTube; and virtual world content which is a category of sites that offer game-like virtual setting. social media are generally easy to establish, and are increasing becoming [popular in the world. Further, the social networking sites are able to raise lots of money