Social media refers to online platforms that allow users to connect, share content, and collaborate. It can include various multimedia like text, audio, video, and images. News and information is shared amongst a large percentage of users, with over 85% of adults in the US using the internet regularly according to Pew Research Center. Popular forms of social media include social networking sites like Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn that provide advantages like social connections, self-expression, exposure to new ideas, and promotion, but also risks such as distractions, oversharing, cyberbullying, permanence of posts, and potential isolation.

1. Todd Hampton
Gateway Community College

2. What is social media?
Social media is and umbrella term for
the collective of online communications
channels dedicated to communitybased input, interaction, contentsharing and collaboration.
 Social media can include text, audio,
video, images, podcasts, and other
multimedia communications.
 News and information is shared
amongst users. (Many Media)
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3. Who uses the
internet?
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According to the Pew Internet &
American Life Project 85% of adults use
the internet regularly.*
91% use a search engine to find
information*
88% regularly use *
78% use it to search for employment.*
67% use a social networking sites like
Facebook, twitter, linked in or Google +*
*Source Pew Internet & American Life Project

4. Forms of Social Media

6. Advantages using of
Social Media

7. Social Connections

8. Self expression

9. Exposure to Diverse ideas

10. Promotion

11. Risks of using Social
Networking

12. Distractions

13. Over Sharing

14. Cyberbullying

15. Permanence

16. Isolation