Types Of Social Media

The Types of Social Media 

Social Networking 

Social networking is the practice of expanding the number of one's business and/or social contacts by making connections through individuals. 

While social networking has gone on almost as long as societies themselves have existed, the unparalleled potential of the Web to facilitate such connections is only now being fully recognized and exploited, through Web-based groups established for that purpose.

Based on the six degrees of separation concept (the idea that any two people on the planet could make contact through a chain of no more than five intermediaries), social networking establishes interconnected online communities (sometimes known as social graphs) that help people make contacts that would be good for them to know, but that they would be unlikely to have met otherwise. 

Depending on the social media platform, members may be able to contact any other member. In other cases, members can contact anyone they have a connection to, and subsequently anyone that contact has a connection to, and so on. Some services require members to have a preexisting connection to contact other members. 

Social media sites include Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and Google+.

social media technologies 

(sound/Video) 

All video formats facebook supports 
a complete list of the video formats that can be uploaded to Facebook:

3g2 (Mobile Video)
3gp (Mobile Video)
3gpp (Mobile Video)
asf (Windows Media Video)
avi (AVI Video)
dat (MPEG Video)
divx (DIVX Video)
dv (DV Video)
f4v (Flash Video)
flv (Flash Video)
m2ts (M2TS Video)
m4v (MPEG-4 Video)
mkv (Matroska Format)
mod (MOD Video)
mov (QuickTime Movie)
mp4 (MPEG-4 Video)
mpe (MPEG Video)
mpeg (MPEG Video)
mpeg4 (MPEG-4 Video)
mpg (MPEG Video)
mts (AVCHD Video)
nsv (Nullsoft Video)
ogm (Ogg Media Format)
ogv (Ogg Video Format)
qt (QuickTime Movie)
tod (TOD Video)
ts (MPEG Transport Stream)
vob (DVD Video)
wmv (Windows Media Video)

Source : Facebook file format list

All youtube supported file formats
.MOV
.MPEG4
.MP4
.AVI
.WMV
.MPEGPS
.FLV
.3GPP
.WebM

Source : Youtube file format list

All twitter supported file formats 
Supported image formats: PNG, JPEG, WEBP and GIF. Animated GIFs are supported.
Supported video formats: MP4

Source : Twitter file format list
these are just to give example of a few 

Blogs

a website containing a writer's or group of writers' own experiences, observations, opinions, etc., and often having images and links to other websites.
EG. Blogger, Live Journal or Hub Pages

Wikis

 is a website which allows collaborative modification of its content and structure directly from the web browser. In a typical wiki, text is written using a simplified markup language (known as "wiki markup"), and often edited with the help of a rich-text editor.[1]

A wiki is run using wiki software, otherwise known as a wiki engine. There are dozens of different wiki engines in use, both standalone and part of other software, such as bug tracking systems. Some wiki engines are open source, whereas others are proprietary. Some permit control over different functions (levels of access); for example, editing rights may permit changing, adding or removing material. Others may permit access without enforcing access control. Other rules may also be imposed to organize content. 
EG. Wikipedia 
Source : wikipedia

Virtual Worlds

A virtual world or massively multiplayer online world (MMOW) is a computer-based simulated environment populated by many users who can create a personal avatar, and simultaneously and independently explore the virtual world, participate in its activities and communicate with others.

Source : Virtual Worlds Information

there are many virtual worlds out there such as world of warcraft so i have found a list of the top ten ( unless of course if you have any ideas then comment them for us)  


Source : Top Ten Virtual Worlds

with the growth of technology these days it allows for a type of social media that grants a good fit for anyone wether that is facebook, twitter, tumblr, reddit, twitch, youtube, blogger, snapchat, vine , instagram  and many more

Andrew Tonner