SOCIAL MEDIA

What is Social Media?

Social media refers to the means of interactions among people in which they create, share, and/or exchange information and ideas in virtual communities and networks. The Office of Communications and Marketing manages the main Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, LinkedIn and YouTube accounts. They are interactive technologies that facilitate the creation and sharing of information, ideas, interests, and other forms of expression through virtual communities and networks. Social media is the term often used to refers new forms of media that involve interactive participation.  

Web applications that facilitate interactive information sharing, interoperability, user-centered design, and collaboration on the World Wide Web.

Social media is the collective of online communications channels dedicated to community - based input, interaction on content - sharing and collaboration. Websites and applications dedicated to forums, micro blogging, social networking, social bookmarking, social curation, and wikis, the idea that social media are defined by their ability to bring people together has been as too broad definition, as this would suggest that the telegraph and telephone were also social media- not the technologies.

Social media are computer-mediated technologies that facilitate the creation and sharing of information, ideas, career interests and other forms of expression via virtual communities and networks. The variety of stand-alone and built-in social media services currently available introduces challenges of definition. 

Social media is the collective of online communications channels dedicated to community-based input, interaction, content-sharing and collaboration. Websites and applications dedicated to forums, micro blogging, social networking, social bookmarking, social curation, and wikis are among the different types of social media.

One can view social media not as something separate from physical reality, but as an integral part of an interwoven social landscape. The prevalence of social media affects and is affected by numerous realms of personal and public life, including processes of identity, interpersonal relationships, and the political economy. Looking towards the future, social media research will examine the seamless ways in which digital technologies, bodies, and the social world intertwine while maintaining unique properties.

Social media

The Positive Effects of Social Media

Social media facilitate the development of online social networks. The study of the attitude towards social media scale is a significant one and for which the investigator has decided to develop and construct a scale to measure it.

Social media in primary health care

Social media is becoming increasingly popular in health care. Technologies that are relevant to primary health care include social networking websites, blogs, micro blogging websites and Wikis.

Wikis are being used to improve collaboration between health professionals, creating a centralized location, where multiple users can contribute to the compilation of up-todate information

.Blogs and microblogs are being used to publish first-hand accounts from health care practitioners, post updates about current resources, and disseminate conference updates to nonattendees.

•  Social media enables you to:-Communicate and stay up to date with family and friends around the world. 

• Find new friends and communities;

•  Network with other people who share similar interests or ambitions. 

• Join or promote worthwhile causes; 

• Raise awareness on important issues

• Building Relationships and Staying Connected.

•  Social media can make it easy to find groups of like-minded people or make new friends. .

•   Finding Your Voice. 

•  Showing Empathy and Kindness. 

•  Offering Support. 

• Better Communication.

• Spreading News.

•  Building a Business.

•  Establishing Authority.

     How to use social media?

When you post your personal information on social media you make yourself, your loved ones and even your physical belongings a target for local and online criminals. Avoid posting names, phone numbers, addresses, school and work locations, and other sensitive information as text or in a photo