Social Media

Social Media "includes web based and mobile technologies used to turn communication into active dialogue." This can include Social Networking sites, such as Facebook, Twitter, Google +, Flickr, and Youtube. Social media and social networking are benefitial to companies and co-workers because it allows them to connect in a highly efficient manner, largely due to the fact that many of these social networking websites are literally at workers' fingertips (ex: Facebook is on many mobile devices). Social networking is also good because it allows people of all cultures, regions, and ethnicities to connect instantly. From a business standpoint, this allows for great marketing tactics; a buyer from just about anywhere in the world has the ability to see many new products and designs of, for example, a clothing company, just by "liking" them on Facebook, or following them on Twitter. There are pros, and there are cons of social media/social networking, and I will further discuss these in my blog and paper.