Websites and Applications that enable users to create and share content or to participate in social networking. 

 Social media is the collective of online communications channels dedicated to community-based input, interaction, content-sharing and collaboration. 

 Here are some examples of social media: 

• FACEBOOK
• TWITTER
•  GOOGLE +
• INSTAGRAM
• WHAT'S APP
• YOUTUBE
• WIKIPEDIA
• REDDIT
• PINTEREST
• TELEGRAM
• KIK
• SNAPCHAT
• SKYPE

The Advantages and Disadvantages of Social Media:

Social Media Advantages

Social media can be a huge helpful for promoting business, Facebook alone has 1.13 billion daily active users, and that’s only one of the many platforms you can use for advertising purposes. 

 

1. LARGE AUDIENCES
2.  FREE TO CREATE
3. ENCOURAGES SHARING
4. INCREASES BRAND LOYALTY
5.  UNCOVERS VALUABLE INSIGHTS

Social Media Disadvantages

1. NEGATIVE FEEDBACK
2. POTENTIAL FOR EMBARRASSMENT
3.  TIME INTENSIVE

FACEBOOK: is an American online social media and social networking service company based in Menlo Park, California. Its website was launched on February 4, 2004, by Mark Zuckerberg, along with fellow Harvard College students and roommates Eduardo Saverin, Andrew McCollum, Dustin Moskovitz, and Chris Hughes

TWITTER: Is an online news and social networking service on which users post and interact with messages known as "tweets". Tweets were originally restricted to 140 characters, but on November 7, 2017, this limit was doubled for all languages except Japanese, Korean, and Chinese 

GOOGLE +:   is an Internet-based social network that is owned and operated by Google. 

INSTAGRAM: is a photo and video-sharing social networking service owned by Facebook, Inc. It was created by Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger, and launched in October 2010 exclusively on iOS. A version for Android devices was released a year later.

WHAT'S APP:  WhatsApp Messenger is a freeware and cross-platform messaging and Voice over IP (VoIP) service owned by Facebook.[44] The application allows the sending of text messages and voice calls, as well as video calls, images and other media, documents, and user location

 YOUTUBE:  is an American video-sharing website headquartered in Sanbruno.  YouTube allows users to upload, view, rate, share, add to favorites, report, comment on videos, and subscribe to other users. 

WIKIPEDIA: Wikipedia is a free online encyclopedia, created and edited by volunteers around the world and hosted by the Wikimedia Foundation 

REDDIT: is an American social news aggregation, web content rating, and discussionwebsite. Registered members submit content to the site such as links, text posts, and images, which are then voted up or down by other members. 

PINTEREST: is a web and mobile application company that operates a software system designed to discover information on the World Wide Web, mainly using images and on a shorter scale, GIFs and videos.  

TELEGRAM: is a cloud-based instant messaging and Voice over ip service developed by Telegram Messenger LLP, a privately held company registered in London, United Kingdom

KIK: Kik Messenger, commonly called Kik, is a freeware instant messaging mobile app from the Canadian company Kik Interactive, available free of charge on iOS and Android operating systems.[1] It uses a smartphone's data plan or Wi-Fi to transmit and receive messages, photos, videos, sketches, mobile webpages, and other content after users register a username

SNAPCHAT: is a multimedia messaging app used globally,  One of the principal concepts of Snapchat is that pictures and messages are only available for a short time before they become inaccessible. 

SKYPE:  is a telecommunications application software product that specializes in providing video chat and voice calls between computers, tablets, mobile devices