There are different types of Social Media. The Social Networks, Bookmarking Sites, Social News, Media Sharing, Microblogging and Blogs and Forums.
Social Networks are sites that allows us, users to connect with other people. Users can create account and they can set up a profile, share content, add people and create groups. One of the best example of this is the Facebook.
Next is the Bookmarking Sites. These sites allows the users to manage links to various websites. Most of these sites allows the users to create a tag which allows them to easily search and share some content. One example of this is the Pinterest.
On the other hand, Social News are the sites that allows the users to post their own news item. Users are also capable of voting on the news articles of the website. Example of this is the reddit
The next one is the Microblogging. These sites allows the user to post some short update about them. And people who subscribed to them can be able to receive updates from them. One of the famous example of this is the Twitter.
The last one is the Blogs and Forums. These websites allow the users or what we called “Blogger” to put their own content. The best example of this is the WordPress.
Reference: Empowerment Technologies Book.
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