Social Connection

Keeping in touch with friends and family members is one of the greatest benefits of social networking. Here is a list of the most widely-used websites for building social connections online.

Example of Social Media

Popular and famous Social network in Thailand

• Facebook
• Line
• Instagram
• Twitter

The Social network that famous in another country

• Tumblr
• Vine
• We heart it

And today we will show you how to play it!!!

Types of Social Network

Twitter

First, the basics: What is Twitter all about?

It's a platform wherein users share their thoughts, news, information and jokes in 140 characters of text or less. Twitter makes global communication cheap and measurable. Profiles are (usually) public — anyone in the world can see what you write, unless you elect to make your profile private. Users "follow" each other in order to keep tabs on and converse with specific people.

The first step is to understand and master the vernacular. There are certain words and jargon native to Twitter that you may already have heard in passing. These terms and their abbreviations (in parentheses) are essential for understanding the network.

Tweet: A 140-character message.

Retweet (RT): Re-sharing or giving credit to someone else's tweet.

Feed: The stream of tweets you see on your homepage. It's comprised of updates from users you follow.

Handle: Your username.

Mention (@): A way to reference another user by his username in a tweet (e.g. @mashable). Users are notified when @mentioned. It's a way to conduct discussions with other users in a public realm.

Direct Message (DM): A private, 140-character message between two people. You can decide whether to accept a Direct Message from any Twitter user, or only from users you are following.
You may only DM a user who follows you.

Hashtag (#): A way to denote a topic of conversation or participate in a larger linked discussion (e.g. #AmericanIdol, #Obama). A hashtag is a discovery tool that allows others to find your tweets, based on topics. You can also click on a hashtag to see all the tweets that mention it in real time — even from people you don't follow.

Facebook

Facebook is the largest online social networking site and currently has more than 1 billion users.Facebook allows people to interact, share photos and find people. In addition to using Facebook for social purposes, many people use it professionally for business networking

1. Register on Facebook
2. Enter Profile Information

If you have just joined Facebook, the Info tab is displayed after you added friends. If you logged out of Facebook before setting up a profile, then click on View and Edit Profile the next time you log on to Facebook.

1. Enter your basic information.

2. If you only want to show the month and day of your birthday and not the year, select Show only month and year in my profile from the box underneath the birthday field.

3. To enter Personal, Contact and Education information, click on the appropriate section and enter the information.

4. If you do not want specific information displayed on your profile, leave the field blank.
5. When you have completed a section, click on the Save Changes button before moving to another section.

6. To upload a profile picture, click Upload Profile Picture and browse to the picture you would like to display.

7. To write a brief bio that will be shown on your profile page, click Write something about yourself and type in your information.

8. When you have completed your profile, click on the Done Editing button and the information is saved.

Social media are computer-mediated tools that allow people or companies to create, share, or exchange information, careerinterests, ideas, and pictures/videos in virtual communities 

and networks.

     Social media is defined as "a group of Internet-based applications that build on the ideological and technological foundations of Web 2.0, and that allow the creation and exchange of user-generated content ."Furthermore, social media depend on mobile and web-based technologies to create highly interactive platforms through which individuals and communities share, co-create, discuss, and modify user-generated content. They introduce substantial and pervasive changes to communication between businesses, organizations, communities, and individuals.These changes are the focus of the emerging field of technoself studies. Social media differ from traditional or industrial media in many ways, including quality, reach, frequency, usability, immediacy, and permanence. Social media operate in a dialogic transmission system (many sources to many receivers).This is in contrast to traditional media that operates under a monologic transmission model (one source to many receivers).