Social Media [1]

In a way, what I'm doing now is also a form of social media.
Blogging.

Before blogs are available, everyone get the news and informations from newspapers and other one-way medias. With the creation of blogs,everyone can now share their opinion on current issues or interests and be their own publisher.

Various blog hosting sites such as Blogger, LiveJournal and WordPress allow people to publish their blogs for free. This leads to the advent of mass sharing of diaries, interests, opinions, reviews, stories and others online.

For example, Blogger allows readers to post comments in a persons's blog. This will make it two-way communication between the blogger and the reader. This helps people to exchange their personal thoughts on the matter and thus, bloggers can include mass opinions in their posts and their own addition to them. Improvements and changes can be done in a blog post through the edit option.

Bloggers who are consistent with a blog will get followers who share the same ideations. For example, a blogger who discusses bout fashion and beauty consistently throughout all their blog posts will target particular type of readers. Same goes for bloggers who shares culinary art views, tips in cooking/baking and personal recipes, will attract another kind of followers.

Blogger allows people to share daily news and multimedia in their blog through customization options. As an example, in my previous post, I included the multimedia application of Youtube vid about Social Media that readers can watch in my blog.

Not only that, blogger can also post links to other bloggers who shares similar views by blogrolling. This is a common thing that bloggers does to spread popularity of their own blogs by in-and-out linking.


This is a brief personal account of how social media is affecting my life and lives around me.