What is Social Media?

 Definition from Wikipedia:

Social media are primarily Internet-based tools for sharing and discussing information among human beings. Social media is information content created by people using highly accessible and scalable publishing technologies. It is intended to facilitate communications, influence interaction between peers and with public audiences.

DetectorPRO opinion of social media:
I dont think Social Media has to be an object or a tool. I think Social Media transpires anytime a conversation happens: talking to a friend at a coffee shop, standing on a soap box in the park, or even just walking around the city talking to random people.

Social Media is about the interaction, but we try to manage it through the tools.

And, a bit simpler: Social media is any online space where people have public conversations.

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Social media humor:
But, if you browser looks like following picture you may consider yourself as a big social media person (as my colleague used to say: socialist), or at the other hand - you must go outside in the real world and socialize with real people FAST.

How to Survive the Social Networks and Other Types of Internet Communication

Communicating on the Internet through many social networks like Facebook, MySpace, Twitter or some messaging programs such as Skype, ICQ, Yahoo, MSN is a great safety risk, same as the usage of e mail. Therefore, we are giving you (8) eight advices for carefree and safe communication with the rest of the world. Although you have already heard similar advices many times, this is a unique opportunity for gathering the most important recommendations at one place. Take caution when creating your username Every service that provides communication via Internet will ask you to enter the name that will allow the others to recognize you at network of all networks. By no means should you choose the names that would hint on you precisely. Thus, when you are asked to enter a nick, choose any, for example racer18, detector123, nick20, smallandbig, etc. Careful when revealing your name By no means should you reveal your real first and last name in public, and your e mail address. We have to be extra careful with our e mail address, and pay good attention who we are giving it to, and where do we enter our real e mail address. If it is really necessary (and most of the times it is),when it comes to registration on different web pages and web forums, we can use a different e mail address opened on some of the free e mail services, in order to protect our real mail inbox from spam. Fake presentation Always communicate only with those people you know in real life as well, because you never know exactly who might be on the other side. Besides, look at our first advice: if you present yourself as john123, who could uncover you immediately? In addition, would you be able to know who is hiding behind the name of johnybig? Passwords, credit cards When communicating on Internet with the other people, you must not reveal any of your private data, such as your credit card number, PIN, password for approaching some other service and alike. In a word no personal information revealing. Blind dates When you have decided to meat in real life someone you should take all the precaution measures. For example, dont go alone to such appointments (take a friend with you) and always arrange the meeting in a public place (such as caf bar, library, etc.). Do not open just about everything Never open pictures, download information, or click the links that you receive in messages sent by unknown people, because you never know if they contain a virus, or if there is a possible threat of stealing data from your computer. In case you receive that kind of message from the person you know, check with the sender if it really was that person, who sent the message. Business or private? Never send private messages while at work. It is possible that your employer has the rights to check the messages you sent. You dont even know how many employers supervise network transactions of their employees, and if you break the business regulations, you might even get fired. On public place If you are using a public computer, you must not use under any circumstances procedures, which will allow the automatic login. People who will be using the computer afterwards could see and use your information to login and introduce theirselves on your behalf.

90% of Facebook users are not satisfied with new UI, Facebook team response - deal with it

Bad, vast, back the old design are just some of the objections that are published commenting on the initial implementation of the new Facebook user interface. As CNet reports, the greatest dissatisfaction is expressed by users who are not so technologically aware (which is the largest number on Facebook), and the others are already accustomed to such new ideas. But, despite the user dissatisfaction, the number of new Facebook users is unstoppable and currently it is around 175 million. Many of users complain that new Facebook look like micro-blogging service Twitter, which is not far from the truth. The last Facebook redesign was before about six months and according to me was better than the new one. So it is questionable, why Facebook team decided to redesign the biggest social network so early just in time when users get familiar with the last user interface? If the trend is somewhat cosmetic and functional changes every six months, it is certain that the number of Facebook users will start descending in the future.

FunkySexyCool socialize via a mobile phone or the web

February 10, 2009

As every Internet user know, social networking has been largely dominated by two players, Facebook and MySpace, but now FunkySexyCoo as company with unique idea is earning international media interest for its innovative approach to the social networking phenomenon. "FunkySexyCool is a fun, fast and easy way to socialise via a mobile phone or the web. It's a cool and exciting way in which anyone, anywhere in the world, can meet someone with the same interests in seconds," says O'Connor. "Our membership figures have exploded in recent months and we expect this to accelerate as social networking growth extends to the mobile phone." FunkySexyCool is a free service in which members vote each other Funky Sexy or Cool. In addition to offering typical on-line community features, FunkySexyCool also allows members to purchase premium features which allow them to enhance their community experience. In addition to premium features, FunkySexyCool earns revenue through advertising. FunkySexyCool members are averaging over 20 minute session durations and 100 page views per day. The service is available globally in multiple languages and is compatible with over 90% of modern mobile phone handsets. The company is now headquartered in Manhattan, New York, USA. FunkySexyCool is actively partnering with telecommunications carriers and other partners around the world. Link: FunkySexyCool