INTRODUCTION OF SOCIAL MEDIA

Social media are computer-mediated technologies that facilitate the creation

and sharing of information, ideas, career interests and other forms of
expression via virtual communities and networks. The variety of stand-alone
and built-in social media services currently available introduces challenges of
definition; however, there are some common features:

 Social media are interactive Web 2.0Internet-based applications.

 User-generated content, such as text posts or comments, digital photos
or videos, and data generated through all online interactions, is the
lifeblood of social media.
 Users create service-specific profiles for the website or app that are
designed and maintained by the social media organization.
 Social media facilitate the development of online social networks by
connecting a user's profile with those of other individuals or groups.

Some of the most popular social media websites are Facebook Google+,
MySpace, Instagram, LinkedIn, Pinterest, Tumblr, Twitter, Viber, WeChat,
WhatsApp, Snapchat and YouTube. These social media websites have more
than 100,000,000 registered users.

Users typically access social media services via web-based technologies

on desktop, computers, and laptops, or download services that offer social
media functionality to their mobile devices (e.g., smartphones and tablet
computers). When engaging with these services, users can create highly
interactive platforms through which individuals, communities and
organizations can share, co-create, discuss, and modify user-generated content
or pre-made content posted online. They introduce substantial and pervasive
changes to communication between businesses, organizations, communities
and individuals. Social media changes the way individuals and large
organizations communicate. These changes are the focus of the emerging
fields of technoself studies.
 HISTORY OF SOCIAL MEDIA

Technology began to change very rapidly in the 20th Century. After the first
super computers were created in the 1940s, scientists and engineers began to
develop ways to create networks between those computers, and this would
later lead to the birth of the Internet. The earliest forms of the Internet, such
as CompuServe, were developed in the 1960s. Primitive forms of email were
also developed during this time. By the 70s, networking technology had
improved, and 1979’s UseNet allowed users to communicate through a virtual
newsletter. By the 1980s, home computers were becoming more common and
social media was becoming more sophisticated. Internet relay chats, or IRCs,
were first used in 1988 and continued to be popular well into the 1990’s. The
first recognizable social media site, Six Degrees, was created in 1997. It
enabled users to upload a profile and make friends with other users. In 1999,
the first blogging sites became popular, creating a social media sensation that’s
still popular today.

After the invention of blogging, social media began to explode in popularity.

Sites like MySpace and LinkedIn gained prominence in the early 2000s, and
sites like Photobucket and Flickr facilitated online photo sharing. YouTube
came out in 2005, creating an entirely new way for people to communicate
and share with each other across great distances. By 2006, Facebook and
Twitter both became available to users throughout the world. These sites
remain some of the most popular social networks on the Internet. Other sites
like Tumblr, Spotify, Foursquare and Pinterest began popping up to fill specific
social networking niches. Today, there is a tremendous variety of social
networking sites, and many of them can be linked to allow cross-posting. This
creates an environment where users can reach the maximum number of
people without sacrificing the intimacy of person-to-person communication.
We can only speculate about what the future of social networking may look in
the next decade or even 100 years from now, but it seems clear that it will
exist in some form for as long as humans are alive.
 CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK
Social media has affected the way youth communicate, by introducing new
forms of language. Abbreviations have been introduced to cut down on the
time it takes to respond online. The commonly known "LOL" has become
globally recognized as the abbreviation for "laugh out loud" thanks to social
media.[257] Online linguistics has changed the way youth communicate and
will continue to do so in the future, as each year new catchphrases and
neologisms such as "YOLO", which stands for "you only live once", and "BAE",
which stands for "before anyone else" arise and start "trending" around the
world.

Other trends that influence the way youth communicate is through hashtags.
With the introduction of social media platforms such as Twitter, Facebook and
Instagram, the hash tag was created to easily organize and search for
information. As hashtags such as #tbt ("throwback Thursday") become a part
of online communication, it influenced the way in which youth share and
communicates in their daily lives. Because of these changes in linguistics and
communication etiquette, researchers of media semiotics have found that this
has altered youth's communications habits and more.

Social media also alters the way we understand each other. Social media has
allowed for mass cultural exchange and intercultural communication. For
example, people from different regions or even different countries can discuss
current issues on Facebook. As different cultures have different value systems,
cultural themes, grammar, and worldviews, they also communicate differently.
The emergence of social media platforms collided different cultures and their
communication methods together, forcing them to realign in order to
communicate with ease with other cultures. As different cultures continue to
connect through social media platforms, thinking patterns, expression styles
and cultural content that influence cultural values are chipped away. Social
media has offered a new platform for peer pressure with both positive and
negative communication. From Facebook comments to likes on Instagram,
how the youth communicate and what is socially acceptable is now heavily
based on social media.
 REVIEW OF LITERATURE
1) https://smallbiztrends.com/2013/05/the-complete-history-of-social-
media-infographic.html
“Technology began to change very rapidly in the 20th Century. After the
first super computers were created in the 1940s, scientists and
engineers began to develop ways to create networks between those
computers, and this would later lead to the birth of the Internet.”
2) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_media
“Social media are computer-mediated technologies that facilitate the
creation and sharing of information, ideas, career interests and other
forms of expression via virtual communities and networks. The variety of
stand-alone and built-in social media services currently available
introduces challenges of definition”
3) https://eric.ed.gov/?id=ED525056
“Since 2006, blogging has dropped among teens and young adults while
simultaneously rising among older adults. As the tools and technology
embedded in social networking sites change, and use of the sites
continues to grow, youth may be exchanging "macro blogging" for micro
blogging with status updates.
4) https://turbofuture.com/internet/effects-of-social-media-on-our-
youth
“Social media have become prominent parts of life for many young
people today. Most people engage with social media without stopping
to think what the effects are on our lives, whether positive or negative.
Are we as a society becoming more concerned with Facebook "friends"
than we are with the people we interact with face-to-face in our daily
lives? What will the longterm effects of today's social media use be?”
5) https://slwrig02.expressions.syr.edu/spring2015wrt205/2015/03/28/h
ow-social-media-is-effecting-social-and-communication-skills-among-
adolescents/
“Social media and online communication is believed to be having
adverse effects on social skills and communication among adolescents.
Not too long ago social media did not exist and social communication
and interactions were the only way of communicating. “