Social Media What is it and How do I do it? Fulton County Public Library By Jon Gaskill

Social Media-- What is it?  Changing! ---let’s watch a video …    A social network service focuses on building and reflecting of social networks or social relations among people, e.g., who share interests and/or activities.social networkssocial relations  The main types of social networking services are those which contain category places (such as former school-year or classmates), means to connect with friends (usually with self-description pages) and a recommendation system linked to trust. * *

Why?  Share pictures with faraway relatives.  Keep up-to-date with social trends, business information and news.  Get information and real-time, location based information via mobile phone.  It is one way for people to connect not only with people from the past or present, but also as a way to connect with people with similar interests, hobbies and to interact and socialize.  The number of teenagers on social networking sites has skyrocketed in the past few years, as has the number of Retirees!

What’s Popular?  Facebook-  Twitter-  YouTube-  Flickr-  Linkedin-  Google Plus (G+)- plus.google.com

One at a time- …  Facebook is the world’s largest social network, with over 500 million users.  Facebook was founded by Mark Zuckerberg in February 2004, initially as an exclusive network for Harvard students.Mark Zuckerberg  Long gone were the days of Facebook as a social network for college students. 11% of users are over the age of 35, and the fastest growing demographic is users over 30. Facebook users’ passion, or addiction, to the site is unparalleled: more than half use the product every single day and users spend an average of 19 minutes a day on Facebook. Facebook is 6th most trafficked site in the US and top photo sharing site with 4.1 billion photos uploaded. §passionaddiction4.1 billion photos uploaded  Now, anyone with an internet connection can create an account. § Facebook

±  An abbreviated version of social networking. “Micro-Blogging”  An update is limited by 140 characters and can be posted through three methods: web form, text message, or instant message. ±  Only post blurbs or quick snippets as to what you are doing at the time.  Follow others or be followed by others. Twitter

YouTube  Site for sharing “viral videos.”  YouTube is the leader in online video, sharing original videos worldwide through a Web experience. YouTube allows people to easily upload and share video clips across the Internet through websites, mobile devices, blogs, and .  Everyone can watch videos on YouTube. People can see first-hand accounts of current events, find videos about their hobbies and interests, and discover the quirky and unusual. As more people capture special moments on video, YouTube is empowering them to become the broadcasters of tomorrow. ¤ ¤

Flickr  Former game designers Stewart Butterfield and Caterina Fake created Flickr, an online photo sharing network, in Flickr, which began as a photo-sharing feature of their gaming project, has since then blossomed into one of the premiere photo-sharing sites on the web. Yahoo purchased Flickr for $35 million in March of Since then Flickr continues to compete with other photo-sharing giant Photobucket. purchased Photobucket ¹

LinkedIn  With over 100 million users representing over 200 countries around the world, LinkedIn is a fast- growing professional networking site that allows members to create business contacts, search for jobs, and find potential clients. Individuals have the ability to create their own professional profile that can be viewed by others in their network, and also view the profiles of their own contacts.  Competitors to LinkedIn include sites such as XING, Doostang andEcademy. Of note, LinkedIn won two Webby awards in 2007 for services and social networking.XINGDoostangEcademy **

Google Plus (G+)  A Google project headed by Vic Gundotra and Bradley Horowitz, Google+ is designed to be the social extension of Google.Vic GundotraBradley HorowitzGoogle  Its features focus on making online sharing easy for users.  “Circles,” think social circles, akin to Facebook’s listsFacebook’s  “Sandbar,” a user-unifying toolbar  “Sparks,” a search engine for sharing content between users  “Messenger,” a group messaging app that allows users to share with certain “Circles”  “Hangouts,” group video chatting designed to allow up to 10 users video chat at once  Each Google+ user can replace his or her standard Google profile which will stream everything that user has shared as well as the +1 content. The +1 button is similar to a Facebook “like”.Facebook From

What is this “Web 2.0?”  The term Web 2.0 is associated with web applications that facilitate participatory information sharing, interoperability, user- centered design and collaboration on the WWW. §  Social Media is on the rise.  Not just communication, it is innovation  Improving the way we work and play.  It is everywhere…  § Wikipedia-

You can do it too!  Thank you for your time and consideration.  Feel free to stop in for personal Q&A…  Questions?