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Social media sites

Facebook is one of the leading social media sites giving people the advantage to talk to old friends over free instant messaging. Facebook has become a growing phenomenal business going as the most viewed website in the world.

Zeroin and such other sites like this sight is a forum where people talk about whatever interests them for example Zeroin specialises in selling and talking about airsoft.

:Connected via computer: attached to or available through a central computer or computer network.

Social media refers to interaction among people in which they create, share, and/or exchange information and ideas in virtual communities and networks

How do they make money?

Zeroin make not much profit via the forum however they are linked up to another sight that they own so they can make profit out of there own advertisement bringing other people to the main website, This is ingenious because they can have the majority of profit for themselves and publicise big events that they host every year, however they are also linked up to another place that they do public events every week.

Facebook is a lot different because they make money via advertising for other company's and then they get paid for that, this is a lot simpler and they can make money from loads of different alternatives. Facebook also use games to make money and on this page the developers of the game get to make money of of that because they can have there own advertising, however Facebook still get paid for the actual page.

History:

Social media are Internet sites where people interact freely, sharing and discussing information about each other and their lives, using a multimedia mix of personal words, pictures, videos and audio.

At these Web sites, individuals and groups create and exchange content and engage in person-to-person conversations.

They appear in many forms including blogs and microblogs, forums and message boards, social networks, wikis, virtual worlds, social bookmarking, tagging and news, writing communities, digital storytelling and scrapbooking, and data, content, image and video sharing, podcast portals, and collective intelligence.

There are lots of well-known sites such as Facebook, LinkedIn, MySpace, Twitter, YouTube, Flickr, WordPress, Blogger, Typepad, LiveJournal, Wikipedia, Wetpaint, Wikidot, Second Life, Del.icio.us, Digg, Reddit, Lulu and many others.YouTube topped one billion monthly users with 4 billion views per day, and launched paid channels to provide content creators with a means of earning revenue. Facebook user total climbed to 1.11 billion. Twitter had 500 million registered users, with more than 200 million active. Apple's customers have downloaded over 50 billion apps and the company again improved iTunes, even as iPads were revolutionizing social games. Yahoo purchased Tumblr blogging-social media network, with 170 million users and 100 million blogs. Flickr had 87 million users and stored 8 billion photos, while Instagram had 100 million users storing 4 billion photos. LinkedIn had 225 million users, while MySpace had 25 million users. Pinterest had 48.7 million users, while WordPress hosted 74 million blogs. Dropbox had more than 100 million users with 1 billion files uploaded daily.

Just in 2013!

Key roles

System of letters, numbers, or symbols: a system of letters, numbers, or symbols into which normal language is converted to allow information to be communicated

AdministratorChief Executive Officer. The executive who is responsible for a company's operations, usually the President or the Chairman of the Board.

CEO

manage and be responsible for the running of (a business, organization, etc.).

Site Coder

a person who looks at or inspects something.

Viewer

Third party companiesThese companies can

do games on the actual website and can talk to people and have external sockets for games etc.

Other Social media sites:

LOTS And lots….. And lots…. And lots…….