Uses of Social Media

We use Social Media to share in all sorts of ways but for SEO, the uses of Social Media is for Communication and for Bookmarking. We use it for communication just like on Facebook or Twitter, we update our statuses or posts updates in our network where everyone can read it. And for bookmarking, this the way of saving links to our favorite content, sites or blogs and sharing those links with everyone.

Here are some list of  popular social media sites.

For Communication - Twitter, Plurk, MySpace, Facebook, LinkedIn, Plaxo, LivingMemory, Squidoo, Bebo, Jaiku, Brightkite.

For Bookmarking - StumbleUpon, Sphinn, Reddit, Del.icio.us, SlideShare, Digg.

What is social media?

Social media is the umbrella term given to ‘places’ on the Internet where most – if not all – of the content is created by users, not webmasters. Social media services include the likes of:

Blogs Message boards Forums

Social networks

Video sharing

Picture sharing

Podcasts

Vidcasts

Wikis

User Groups

Virtual Worlds

WorldsBecause of the un-owned, unfettered nature of social media services, millions of people worldwide use them to express themselves, connect, communicate and share. To have conversations. And because those conversations occur on what is intrinsically a broadcast platform (the World Wide Web), they are, by definition, one-to-many conversations. This is the real power of social media. It combines the power of conversation between connected individuals with the power of broadcast.