What is social Media?

• Social Media is the new term for socializing online. It allows people to freely interact with each other online where-ever they are and whenever they want
• The online forms of communicating to the masses, which include blogs, microblogs, social networking sites and podcasts.
• Media is an instrument on communication, like a newspaper or a radio, so social media would be a social instrument of communication.
• Social media essentially is a category of online media where people are talking, participating, sharing, networking, and book marking online
• Social media is any online media platform that provides content for users and also allows users to participate in the creation or development of the content in some way
• Social media are the various forms of user generated content and the collection of websites and applications that enables people to interact and share information online
• Social media is the use of technology combined with social interaction to create or co-create value
• Digital word of mouth
• Social Media is the meeting place between people and technology
• Social Media is often used as another term for user-generated content
• Social Media, by definition, is the collection of strategies, practices and tools for communicating, creating, sharing and discussing news, information and other media online.

Social Networking sites
- Facebook
The most popular social network site on the net and it needs little introduction. Users can add friends and send them messages, and update their personal profiles status to notify friends about themselves and what they are up to. Additionally, users can join networks organized by workplace, school, or college.
- Twitter
A Micro blogging website that allows users to send and receive messages known as tweets. Tweets are short text messages of up to 140 characters, displayed on the author's profile page, and delivered to the author's subscribers who are known as followers. Its particularly popular with celebrities and entertainers.
- LinkedIn