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What are the different forms of social media that exist today?

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What are the different forms of social media that exist today? Provide examples of different social media and their primary purposes.

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3 Responses to “What are the different forms of social media that exist today?”

  1. ronald.glass@sbcglobal.net on June 18th, 2011 6:29 am

    What do you mean by social media? Newspapers, television, computer communication, telephones, letters, ??? This is all I think you mean. You could include dating services, personal ads (newspapers) churches, social clubs, service clubs, political parties etc. etc.

  2. Lisa P on June 20th, 2011 8:09 pm

    Social media can take many different forms, including Internet forums, weblogs, social blogs, microblogging, wikis, podcasts, pictures, video, rating and social bookmarking.

    Examples include: Twitter, FaceBook, Digg, Flickr, Youtube, Blogger, Reddit etc etc etc

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  3. Bhups on June 21st, 2011 4:19 pm

    There are basically 7 forms of Social Media.

    1. Blogging — Wordpress, Blogger
    2. Social Network — Facebook, MySpace, Orkut, Hi5, LinkedIn
    3. Microblogging — Twitter, Google Buzz, Yahoo Meme
    4. Social Bookmarketing — Digg, StumbleUpon, Mixx, Reddit
    5. Video Sharing — Youtube,Hulu
    6. Broader Content Sharing — Enips, Scribd, Slideshare
    7. Forums — Yahoo Answers

    There are many sites which fall into one or more of these categories. Some people call even social gaming as a part of social media. We may or may not include it.