Social Media and the Internet By: Trevor Babich

Social Media Background Social media are Internet sites where people interact freely, sharing and discussing information about each other and their lives, using a multimedia mix of personal words, pictures, videos and audio At these Web sites, individuals and groups create and exchange content and engage in person-to-person conversations

Social Media Background Continued.. They appear in many forms including blogs and microblogs, forums and message boards, social networks, wikis, virtual worlds, social bookmarking, tagging and news, writing communities, digital storytelling and scrapbooking, and data, content, image and video sharing, podcast portals, and collective intelligence The most well known sites are facebook, myspace, flickr, twitter and many others

MYSPACE Myspace was launched in 2003 as a FriendStar model sight Myspace was the first major human to human social networking site. The internet and myspace helped many musicians spread their music and gain massive amounts of fans

Myspace Myspace was the first “BIG” social media network Myspace had its glory days between the years of Myspace shows how much the information the internet can get out to the public Since 2008 Myspace's numbers dropped massively, leading them to sell the company in 2011 for $35 million dollars

Facebook Facebook is one of the largest coorperations in the world today Facebook first opened up in 2004 under owner Mark Zuckerberg Developed in Harvard dorm room under inspiration to succeed and love of the internet Zuckerberg knew the internet was updated enough and fast enough to open up facebook in 2008

Facebook Facebook has had major affects on social, political, media and pop culture Famous people and athletes establish major fan bases from facebook The internet has made social media a root to fame for many users Facebook has caused a lot of controversy and problems for many people

Twitter Twitter gained so much internet popularity because of their micro-blogging scheme they used instead of the normal social media It allows readers to post up to 140 words in a sentence known as “tweets” Twitter is highly used by celebrities and athletes all over the world Athletes must sign a contract forcing them to create twitter accounts, nba, nfl, mlb...

Social Media and the Internet All of these social media networks are creating impacts on the internet world today Facebook and Twitter continue to dominate the internet usage As more and more technology comes out, social media will continue to develop and making the internet even more powerful Social media inspired internet to come to phones, tablets and other objects