Social media is online tools that let people collaborate, communicate, and share content/ideas over the internet. Web based discussion groups and newsgroups are a place where people with similar interests can express their thoughts and opinions to a network of people that they probably would never would have met in person. Text messaging allows people to send short messages usually containing text, audio, or video from their cell phones. Some service providers allow the user to send a webpage to someone using a multimedia messaging service. One of the earliest forms of chat was Internet relay chat (IRC), which was a text-based communications tool. When you connect to an IRC network, you can choose from a list of the available channels on the network that you can join to chat with friends. Blogging is becoming more popular and is used as an online tool for sharing your opinions and ideas to a certain audience. Micro blogging is basically blogging to a private audience. It is used mainly by businesses to inform their customers of new offers and services. It can also be used to give status updates to only your close friends and not to everyone that would normally read the updates. The way social networking online works is when you join the site you create a profile that describes yourself. Then you add other people from that site to your network, and then your network grows larger as your friends connect with new friends and then they connect to their friends.
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