Social media consists of concepts, media, and social interfaces that allow over 100 million people to engage with blogs, videos, and social networks each day. It influences ideologies and beliefs through constant bombardment of information across various media platforms, and the internet has revolutionized social media by making interaction and access very fast and easy on sites like Facebook and Twitter.

1. What is social media?

3. Social media wants you to...

4. Get involved!

5. More than 110 million blogsbeing tracked by Technorati, a specialist blog search engine,up from 63 million at the beginning of the year!

6. An estimated 100 million videosa day being watched on video sharing website, YouTube!

7. More than 123 million userson social network Facebook!

8. Social media consists of 3 main topicsConcept (art, information, or me). Media (physical, electronic, or verbal). Social interface (intimate direct, community engagement, social viral, electronic broadcast or syndication, or other physical media such as print)The 3 main components of social media

9. We are bombarded with media on a day to day basis. This leads me to believe you can shape someone's ideologies and beliefs through media. They can command us to remember things for examples slogans from insurance companies can make us remember their telephone numbers and cement their name into our brains subconsciously)Day to Day social media

10. The internet has revolutionised social media as it is easily to access and very fast. Social networking sites which allow you to interact have flourished recently such as facebook and twitter which are growing more and more popular. The internet