Social media allows users to access favorite websites from anywhere using tags, create an online network to generate business, and send time-saving short messages. Users can quickly create their own mini-websites and share visual media like photos with a broad audience by posting updates, sharing content, and chatting on a single platform. While social media provides advantages in organizing information and connecting with others, it also presents disadvantages like confusion from tags, sharing private information unintentionally, irrelevant content, needing ongoing updates, and complex privacy settings.

1. Social media You can access a list of your favorite websites from anywhere and use tags. Creating an online network may generate business. Time saving short messages. You can create your own mini-website in minutes. Visual media for a broad audience. You can post status and updates, share photos and chat, all in one place. Advantage Disadvantage Other bigger sites World leader by % of all internet users (2010) What’s involved Digg 0,8% LinkedIn 2,5% Twitter 7,1% Blogger 11,6% YouTube 24,1% Facebook 33,4% Organizing and sharing your favorite web-pages Connecting with other professionals Broadcasting short messages to other users or subscribers Publishing news or keeping an online journal or diary Posting Video, Photo and music Connecting with friends and family online Delicious Diigo Mister Wong Propeller Heddit Stumble-upon APsence Biznik Ecademy Fast Pitch Plaxo Xing Focus Digu FriendFeed Identi.ca Jaiku Plurk Tumblr Yammer Ameba Blogfa WordPress LiveJournal Seesaa TypePad Mihan Blog Flickr Dailymotion Ku6 Megavideo Photobucket Tudou Youku Hi5 Kaixin001 Mixi MySpace Orkut QQ/Qzone VKontakte Using tags or keywords may be confusing. Users may share sensitive information not being aware. Irrelevant chat or ”noise” can be frustrating. Regularly updates need commitment. Users need to be aware of copyright laws. Privacy settings may be complex. Social bookmarking Business networking Micro- blogging Blogging Multimedia sharing Social Networking