The Golden Era Of Social Media

Before starting to define the term social media, let's look at each word individually.

The term “Social” means interact with other people and sharing information with them.

The term “Media” refers to communication channel through which any type of data can be disseminated. TV, radio, and newspapers are examples of traditional forms of media, Mails and Internet are more recent ones.

So we can define the term social media as follows: “Social media are web-based communication tools that enable people to interact with each other by both sharing and consuming information.”

In a simpler manner, Social media are technologies used by people to communicate and socialize with one another. That means, that social media can be traced back to one website in particular – and no, it wasn’t Facebook.

By this year, the internet is available to more than 100 million person. People started to utilize chat rooms for making friends, dating and discussing topics.

Starting in 2001, there was a constant stream of social innovation that started with encyclopedia and Wikipedia. Wikipedia was followed by Friendster, and MySpace. But even though MySpace has a very small user base.

But the huge boom of social media was in 2004 when Mark Zuckerberg launched what would soon become the social media giant: Facebook.

By then social media entered what we called “the Golden Era”.

Nowadays, we can find thousands of websites and platforms providing social media services as Twitter, Flickr, You tube, Instagram ….

Face book and social media nowadays’ changes

In the past few years, social media has had a tremendous impact on our culture. Social media websites are some of the most popular haunts on the Internet. They have revolutionized the way people communicate and socialize on the Web.

Today, Facebook is the number one social media website and it currently boasts over a billion users. Facebook in our days affects society, politics,