Social media is not easily defined. Definitions tend to focus either on the “community” aspect, the existence of “interactivity,” or the availability of “user-generated content.” In common speech, the term is used in a variety of ways, from a broad view which refers to almost everything on the Internet, to a middle view that regards social media as any Internet site which allows users to interact with other users and generate content, to a narrow view referring just to Facebook and similar highly flexible networking and friendship sites, with other interactive sites given dedicated categories such as blogs, wikis, file-sharing sites, and chat applications.
Social media has been defined as “any tool or service ...
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