A number of people sharing a common interest or information and interact socialy termed as social network. And the source used to promote social network is called social media, the most important need of 21st century to communicate over web.
Mainly, social media is used to share news, views, information to keep interconnect friends living at long distances. In past 3 to 4 years, social media concept growth amazingly and get famous in majority world now days. The concept is more than storing your profile information as you can share every aspect of your social life in more convenient way.
Different social media are serving in knowledge sharing like Facebook,Twitter,Orkut, WebberID etc. with all essential features to promote your social identity. Facebook like button system, effects of Digg, tweeting by Twitter are some example of their useful features.
The question arises that how social media is useful for everyone. Digg, a social media and News source, is a a perfect example to answer it by sharing top news with its important value rank. It eliminate the problem of readers that what is the most important article to read as, in past, users searches for opinions and recommendations for any article to read.
Search engines like Google and Bing has started to use information from social networking sites in their search result in an effort to get valueable social data. The only downside of this activity is for users as it may encroach their privacy.
In past, people use social media just to get biological information from someone’s profile.
Rapid development in social nerworks like Google+ made Face-to-face chating and calling possible. As more people perform in these social media features, more valuable their opinions will become. In future, information sharing throug social media becomes more convenient as the race is just started.
