Keith Hall

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Number of Internet users worldwide: 1,463,632,361

18,000,000 bloggers

83% have watched a video clip

73% of users have read a blog

57% have joined a social network

55% have uploaded photos

45% have started their own blog

39% have subscribed to an RSS feed.

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Social media is a conversation between people from all across the world. In order to have a conversation, you need to speak, but you need to listen, too.

If an application has any or all of the components on the right, it can be

defined as ‘Social Media’.

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The best way a social network can be described is from a single individual. When this individual uploads something to the Internet, another person will then read it.

This links the two people.

When this person passes theinformation on, (s)he is linkedwith that person.

This happens until a string ofindividuals can be linked worldwide.

Social networking websites, such as Facebook, MySpace, and Bebo act as in-betweens for the services of social media.

They allow you to create an account, profile, and a network.

People then use this network to add their friends.

People join groups, and talk to others in that group.

Then they start to share things with each other.

That is then shared with other people, ultimately – social media.

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It would be difficult to try and define, or explain what is going to happen in the future for the social media industry.

The online world changes almost everyday, where new ideas being thought up more often than that.

But, one thing we can be certain of, is that the social media is going to continue to expand.