My Experiences with the social media

Social media is one the of most recognized media industry which is playing vital role in the life of people. With the passage of time the effectiveness and strength of social media is creating and opening innovative and informative ways in the life of people.
A few year ago when internet industry was not at boom and work just only fixed with emails and chatting I joined it. In web 1.0 users was not much freely related to access the contents but then forums was introduced to gather the people and I joined different groups and take part in different discussions. That was my first experience towards social media in 1999.Most of that discussion was on some topic which was fixed by the site owners. Then it continues and Orket and other big names were introduced in social media industry but I was not much attracted with that things.
when I came in Sweden , here I heard lot about web 2.0 and this thing develop my interest that how Web 2.0 made the internet more socialize made it need of people. Today in every aspect if we talk about social gathering then Facebook and MySpace attract me too much. New enhancements in social media provide me and other users’ new innovative ways of thinking and involved the people not with each other but also with media industry.
New media is user generated media and content owner is users itself. I am feeling proud that whatever I want to do I can, I can write on social issues, economic issues, can highlight, save and spread my contents all over my network through Facebook, youtube, yahoo groups, Wikipedia, wiki spaces, delicious and now jay cut and some other new softwares and applications are giving full premises to the users as content owners. New social media is not only exchange of information but it is now big market space for the business communities and itself users. Users are not only writers or content owners but they can earn from their applications on different websites and they are doing.
From entertainment( games, second life, Sims ) to communication(Facebook, Blogs, Tpad) social media has unique identification in the life of people, even myself and number of other people learn and get about other through these social networks.
For me it is best way to express myself and through blogs today I am connected with lot of people. Social media mobilize me to do something, I am contributing and sharing my knowledge through Wiki and youtube but one thing I have felt the due to the access of everyone without any streaming some social issues are producing like

Quantity is effecting the quality (Wiki is again big example, you tube)
Trust and privacy is some time is in threat
People are becoming more machine dependent

But overall affect of the social media impressive and remarkable in today age and I hope with sincerity of people it will grow more and more because only we are creator and we will be destroyer of this media industry in the future.

Me and social media

I have never thought about the relationship between the social media technology and me until the day that I moved to my new apartment which is without internet. And I would never forget that I was really in a bad mood and felt uneasy and even insecurity merely because of the lack of internet, which made me keep wondering since when I cannot even live well without internet.

Every time I turn on my computer, the first thing I do is to log on the MSN and QQ which are the C/S chatting software, and then open the Firefox, iGoogle would automatically tell me the Calendar, email, the news and blogs I subscribed in the Google Reader, and the most popular clips on the YouTube. After going through the Google Reader, I would have a feeling of connecting to the world and having my information system update. And there is also a thing that I would never miss is to log on the Xiaonei.com where I can get touch with my Chinese classmates and friends and learn something new, valuable or just funny from the sharing items. It is very similar to the Facebook except the sharing characteristic. I also use the Facebook to contact my foreign friends but not as frequently as I do with Xiaonei.

Blog is a main media I use to express myself, and what I am using now is MySpace and Blogger. I like the Twitter as well, because it’s simple and real-time, which kind of fill the gap between the chat software and traditional blog. Actually, I also intend to build another blog with WordPress technology as long as I come up with any good ideas about the theme and content.

Being a major assistant of my study, some professional blogs, forums and of course, Wiki and Google, are the main source of my inspirations and references besides of the library. And the social bookmarks like Delicious and Digg are really good means for accumulating knowledge and information. And the B/S office software like GoogleDocs makes the teamwork easier and more efficient. So it becomes really difficult to finish any single assignment without the internet.

In my leisure time, I would like to spend time on Douban.com where I can catch the recent trends of book, music and movie. And I also enjoy reading the most popular comments on those, some of which are really fruity rather than mere culture fast-food. I also use numbers of other niche market communities, which are not famous but really helpful for me.

Suddenly I found that I was kind of depending on these social media technologies. They really began to be an indispensable part of my social life. The benefits used to be gained by interacting, such as communicating with others, learning and sharing knowledge can be simply got with the help of social media technologies. Sometimes, it is seems to be much more cheerful to social online instead of in the reality, since we could concern less and just be ourselves. We could choose the friends or topics that we really like and block those we dislike, and make comments based on more objective perspective and say the words we really mean. Moreover, social media technology has made it possible to be more efficient with information. Nearly every time that I got familiar with a certain type of social media technology, it is a sort of ‘eye-opening experience’ to me. Nowdays, the mobile phone also makes the social media more complicated but vigorous. The RSS and plenty of aggregators help us out of sea of information and be more focus and efficient. In sum, the social media technology provides a platform for us to social in a more genuine and effective way.

Although I do thank the social media technology, being explored in front of such numerous options, I still feel a little confused instead of lucky.

Am I missing anything? Do I need to apply all of them?




Nobody can exhaust them all, so people are more likely to end up with some certain ones and really stick to them, which create a new sort of niche market. The more opportunities I see here is for the marketers, since the customers’ behavior and marketing media has changed a lot. It is more about the niche market, which is most easily accessed by these new media. And social media technology here would definitely play an important role and bring the hope to the marketers in the future.

Admin rights

I will assign the admin right to all groups members and you can change and add more and more information on the blog.
Cheers

Okey.. So now I am in the group too..! See you all at the lecture this afternoon..

/Angelica

Direct Link to DM2578

Here is the direct link of course blog DM2578 of media technologies where you can find list of all groups and members and every material related with the course.
http://dm2578.blogspot.com/2008/10/i-will-post-list-of-groups-members.html

Blog

Hello Group 5,

Here is our blog with its features. Hope we will add more features and make it more worthy and informative.

Regards

Sohail