SOME EXERCISES FOR SOCIAL MEDIA ADDICTS :)

If you are concerned about your health because you are spending too much time on social media sites like Facebook and Digg, here’s an exercise plan that may keep you fit.

Every time you want to check Facebook or Flickr, just do the exercise associated with that site (like for Facebook, jog in place for about a minute) and then reward yourself by going to that website.

SOCIAL NETWORK SITE DEMOGRAPHICS

It’s tough to gather demographic information from each social networking site because it’s not always publicly available (and sometimes only reserved for advertisers).

However, Pipl.com has gathered hundreds of millions of public profiles from social networking sites between November and December 2007 and developed informative charts about the demographics of users on the most popular social networks. Here are some highlights:

• Woman are younger, the men are older.
  Women start on MySpace at a younger age, but their membership decreases as they age (especially around age 26). On the other hand, men remain more active as they age.
• Bebo and Xanga have the youngest members.
  Xanga has the youngest demographic of social networking members (23% of members are under 18 years old) and Bebo is second (18% under 18). However membership in these sites declines rapidly after 18.
• European, Asians and South American Members are getting Younger
  The demographic of Asian, European and South American members are trending younger – especially women.
• More Women on MySpace, More Men on Hi5
  The demographic of users on MySpace is trending more female, while more men are joining Hi5. This statistic is just in reference to the demographic breakdown on Hi5 and MySpace.

When examining social network site demographics, keep in mind where visitors are coming from. Many popular social networking sites (e.g. Orkut.com) have visitors from outside the United States. Check Alexa.com to find out where visitors are coming from.

SOURCE

http://onlinebrandmanager.org/social-media/

SOCIAL NETWORKING TRAFFIC STATISTIC

Rankings and statistics change monthly (and vary depending on the web statistic firm reporting). However, these stats serve as a marker for how these sites are doing as of February 2008.

As you can see, MySpace.com is the dominant player in social networking, while Facebook.com is gaining ground. Many other niche social networks are growing too, but these don’t compare to the dominant market share that MySpace and Facebook have.

SOURCE:
http://onlinebrandmanager.org/social-media/

TYPES OF SOCIAL NETWORKING SITES

What is An Online Social Network?

At a very basic level, social networking sites include the following:

* User profiles (public/private)
* List of friends
* Ways for users to interact (chat, messaging, sharing media, etc.)

Types of Social Networking Sites

Over the last ten years, SNSs have evolved from general friendship sites (e.g. SixDegrees.com, Friendster, Classmates, MySpace, Facebook) to more specific hobby-related and career-focused sites.

There are online communities for virtually everything imaginable, and these sites can be broadly categorized into four possible areas:

* Dating/friendship
* Alumni networks
* Career/business related
* Hobby/group networks

HOW DO WE USE SOCIAL MEDIA?

If you live to this world, you have to accept that the other worlds assets. Of course, we should know that, how is this world and what are the rules of this world?
The most important that, we have to positioning there rules for personal and corporate development. This mentioned the internet world. The internet world is not for just search. We know that anyway. In the internet world people share their idea, information and they efffect eachother quickly in this meeting minute. When social media is using correctly, it upgrade your works. On the other hand, if it used to bad way, it can be very powerful hardware. Everyone thinks that social media is a communication platform. But, social media is a research platform at the same time.
What is going on in the world, where do you stay, what you need to do for grow stronger? You sholud learn all of these from social media. You have to follow everything in here. Some users will be effected about their decision. Social media makes you better, powerful knowledgeable and than your competitiors.

WHAT DO WE KNOW ABOUT SOCIAL MEDIA SOCIAL MEDIA?

Social media is media has no limitation of time and location. It has apportunities like highly accessible and scalable publishing techniques. So we can say that social media uses internet or web-based tecnologies to transform the data. Social media gives us chance to meet and communicate with people. That’s why social media is one of the informal education ways.

Social media describes websites that allow users to share content, media, etc. Common examples are the popular social networking sites like Facebook, MySpace, etc. Social media also includes YouTube, Photobucket, Flickr, and other sites aimed at photo and video sharing. News aggregation and online reference sources, examples of which are Digg and Wikipedia, are also counted in the social media bucket. Social media describes online media with a participatory or interactive component.

According to some rumour that is delivered online becomes social media if there is a place for readers to comment on the news story. Blogs, forums, and chat rooms are all social media, because they include an interactive component. At the present day, lots of people using these way for communicate the others.

Marketing and public relationship using social media involves creating social media content like starting blog or forums. One of the big concerns about using social media for business and marketing is time. Social media activities do pose a rsik of drawing you in and taking up huge amount of your day just interacting with people.

Add that the technology is changing all the time. It can seem imposibble to keep up with all the tools, software techniques, etiquette, and social media best practices.

It’s hardly surprising that people are looking to social media consultants, agencies and contractors to take on their social media activity.

Social media are different from industrial media, such as newspapers, television, and film. While social media are relatively inexpensive and accessible tools that enable anyone, even private individuals, to publish or access information, industrial media generally require significant resources to publish information.

Social media can take many different forms, including Internet forums, weblogs, social blogs, wikis, podcasts, pictures, video, rating and bookmarking. We are using at least one of them. Especially in the internet, we are also expressed in ourselves this way.

SOURCES (What Do We Know About Social Media?)

http://www.socialmediaexaminer.com/tag/social-media
http://www.wikinvest.com/concept/Social_media
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_media