Class: 9

Social Media
 A Social Networking Site is an online platform that
facilitates the building of social networks or social relation
among people, who share similar interests, activities,
backgrounds, or real-life connection.
 Social networking can be done for social purposes,
business purposes or both.
 Social, networking sites are also called Social Media.
 MERITS OF SOCIAL MEDIA

 Easier To Connect
 Create New Connections
 Free Business Promotions
 Aids in Criminal Cases
 Spreads Information Incredibly Fast
 DEMERITS OF SOCIAL MEDIA

 Cyber Bullying
 Less Real Life Interaction
 Addiction
 Misleading Information
 Misuse of Information
 Fake Profiles
 BLOG
 A blog is an easy-to-create website that allows users to share
their thoughts with the world.
 The topic of the blog can be anything from personal to professional.
 A blogger is someone who blogs or writes content for a blog.
 Types of blogs
* Personal blog * Company Blog * Non-profit blog
* Politics blog * News and Views blog * Micro-blog
 TWITTER

 Twitter is a free social networking and microblogging service.

 Twitter offers a platform to share the brief information or
the links for interesting news or topics that can benefit people.
 It is the 13th most visited websites worldwide.
 It has been termed as the “SMS of the internet”
Salient features of Twitter include:
Twitter Handle: It is the term for a user’s account name on Twitter.
It is listed by putting an ‘@’ symbol before the username.
Tweets: Subscribers use Twitter to communicate and
broadcast short messages called Tweets. Tweets
were restricted to 280
characters. Posting the message is called tweeting.
Hashtags: People use the hashtag (#) before a relevant keyword or
phrase in their Tweet to highlight the keywords or topics.
Follow: The users can search and connect with other people by
following them on Twitter and tweet in them. You can also
‘unfollow’ people if you do not wish to include their tweets in your
twitter feed.
Twitter feed (or Timeline): It is an ongoing stream of tweets from
the users that you follow.
 FACEBOOK
It is another popular social networking website which is used to
connect with people online. It also provides free registration and user-
friendly platform.
Some of the popular offerings from Facebook are,
 Friends List  Facebook Pages
 Walls  News Feed
 Virtual Photo  Privacy Controls
Album
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 YOUTUBE

 YouTube is a free video sharing website. You can find all

kinds of user generated videos on YouTube such as tutorials,
cooking lessons, exercise tips. Music, etc.
 WHATSAPP

 WhatsApp is a messenger app for smartphones.

 Some interesting facts about WhatsApp are,
 WhatsApp now offers high-quality voice as well as video calling.
 WhatsApp is having useful features, such as group chatting, group
video calling, location sharing etc.