User talk:"MIRELA"

With the arrival of Facebook and Twitter at the end of the last decade, the term social media was coined. Social media are Web apps that support the creation and sharing of user-generated content. User-generated content is publically available content created by end users. A social media information system supports the two activities in the social media process: creating and sharing user-generated content.

The social media process begins when a user creates content by posting on Facebook, tweeting, reviewing a product, updating a LinkedIn résumé, or participating in another creative act. This content is then collected and shared with other users by a social media application provider such as Facebook or YouTube.

While this two-step process is quite simple, people still buzz about it and proclaim “This changes everything!” With social media, the reality has lived up to the hype: social media is fundamentally changing the way people #communicate. It’s hard to ignore one billion Facebook users; 200 million resumes on LinkedIn; and 250 million tweets, 4 billion YouTube videos, and 500 million photos posted every day.