Social Networking: Social Networking is an online service that enables its users to create virtual networks with likeminded people akin to social networks in real life. It often offers the facilities such as chat, instant messaging, photo sharing, updates, etc. Currently, social networking sites are the most prominent version of social media. Facebook is one of the most well-known social networking site.
Blogs: Blogs are descriptive content pages created and maintained by individual users and may contain text, photos and links to other web sites. The main interactive feature of Blogs is the ability of readers to leave comments and the comment trail can be followed.
Micro Blogs: Micro Blogs are similar to Blogs with a typical restriction of 140 characters or less, which allows users to write and share content. Twitter is the most well-known microblogging site.
Vlogs and Video Sharing Sites: Video Blogs or Vlogs are blogging sites that mainly use video as the main form of content supported by text. YouTube is the largest video sharing site.
Wikis: A Wiki is a collaborative website that allows multiple users to create and update pages on particular or interlinked subjects. While single page is referred to as “wiki page” the entire related content on that topic is called a “Wiki”. Wikipedia is the pioneering site of this type of platform.
