Social media is a web-medium designed to allow people to share content quickly, efficiently and in real-time. Most people today define social media as apps on their smartphone or tablet, but, the truth is this communication tool started with computers. In today’s world, smartphone is a growth enabler, positively influencing various spheres of life of an individual and therefore impacting the evolving knowledge economy.
Recent Developments Recent Scams Related to Social Media
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Recent Developments in Legal Aspect of Social Media
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Social Networking Sites
Social Networking is an online service that enables its users to create virtual networks with like-minded 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.
Wikipedia/ Online Encyclopaedia
A Wikipedia/ Online Encyclopaedia 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.