Question

Discuss any five types of social media that exist today. Identify two pros and two cons for each of them.

Answer 1

Types of social media

1 social news - services allowing people to post the various news updates, and allow their users to vote on such posts or items. The community decides which news item get seen by more people.

2. Social networks - Services allowing people to connect with each other, the people who have similar interests. The most famous are facebook and linkedin.

3 media sharing - Service allowing people to upload and share various medis such as pictures and videos.

4 bookmarking sites- Services allowing you to save, organize and mnage links of various website.

5 Blogging/community building - By Blogging you can write posts about topics , and allow others to follow your blogs.

Pros and cons of social media

1 It is low cost and effective.

2 Wide range of audianace

3 Helps in getting real time feedback, which gives more opportunities to business organizations to grow.

4 The best way to promote the content.

The cons

1 It brings change very fast in the upcoming enviornment.

2. You are visible to entire world, so misstatement can be accepted

3 you should promote only good product or service as of only once your service or product turns out to be bad your name gets detrioted in market.