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It's an intresting question, but to answer it scientifcly, I'd say it depeneds on the context.
MARKETERS DEFIEN SOCIAL MEDIA AS a channel for brands to connect with their customers and grab their attention.
BUT ANYONE ELSE WOULD SAY SOCIAL MEDIA IS a channel to connect with their friends, share opinions, intrestes and life updates.
Social media is the collective of online communications channels dedicated to community-based input, interaction, content sharing and collaboration. Websites and applications dedicated to forums, micro blogging, social networking, social bookmarking, social curation, and wikis are among the different types of social media. Nowadays Social media is becoming an integral part of life online as social websites and applications proliferate. Most traditional online media include social components, such as comment fields for users. In business, social media is used to market products, promote brands, and connect to current customers and foster new business.
"Social media" is a way for people to communicate and interact online. While it has been around since the dawn of the World Wide Web, in the last 10 years or so we've seen a surge in both the number and popularity of social media sites. It's called social media because users engage with (and around) it in a social context, which can include conversations, commentary, and other user-generated annotations and engagement interactions.
It's a part of our world, allowed us to be on touch all the time, solving bussniess but some who missuse it and misunderstand what the use of social media... social media one of the great applications happend in our world.
Social media is a phrase that we throw around a lot these days, often to describe what we post on sites and apps like Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Snapchat and others. But if we use the term to describe a site like Facebook, and also a site like Digg, plus a site like Wikipedia, and even a site like I Can Has Cheezburger, then it starts to get more confusing. Just what is social media anyway? The term is used so vaguely that it can basically be used to describe almost any website on the internet today.
Social media describes the online technologies and practices that people use to share opinions, insights, experiences and perspectives with each other. A few prominent examples of social media applications are MySpace (social networking), YouTube (video sharing), Second Life (virtual reality), Digg (news sharing), Flickr (photo sharing) and Miniclip (game sharing). These sites typically use technologies such as blogs, message boards, podcasts, wikis, and vlogs to allow users to interact.
