Social media has been defined in various ways from websites that allow users to react to content, to online technologies used for sharing information and perspectives. It continuously delineates our interaction with other people and with various social organizations.
The most common and best known trends of social media interaction are social networks like twitter, blogs, and podcasts. Interaction with others stem from our desire to communicate our visions, aims, and the reasons for them to others. Collaboration is the working together within certain texts whether our interests are individual or common.
Wikis, social news and opinion sites and bookmarking sites are typical of websites supporting social media collaboration. Through these and other similar sites not only do people publish content, but can receive as well as offer feedback in real time, carry on discussions, evaluate and comment on items of interest and even make changes to original content.
Wikis are excellent examples of social media collaboration. They are websites that use particular wiki software. Numerous interlinked Web pages are created and/or edited with the help of a simple markup language. Wikipedia, the encyclopedia, is one of the best-known examples of social media collaboration. Wikis help businesses by providing knowledge management and intranet systems.
With social bookmarking, another example of social media collaboration, Internet users accumulate, arrange, search, and handle bookmarks of web pages on the Internet with the help of tags collaboratively. This is commonly called ‘social tagging’, as many users employ keywords to add metadata to content that is shared.
In this system of social media collaboration, links to web pages that users want to remember and/or share are saved. And although usually public, can be saved privately, to be shared only among particular people or groups
Social bookmarking services provide web feeds for their lists of bookmarks and subscribers are made aware of new bookmarks which are saved, shared, and tagged by other users. They can also have extra features like ratings and comments on bookmarks, the facility of importing and exporting bookmarks from browsers, and of emailing bookmarks,
Social media collaboration websites on which users submit and vote on news stories or other links are referred to as social news websites. Yahoo buzz, Digg and Delicious are examples of these.
As a result of social media collaboration several news aggregator sites that collect and group articles according to growing web interest have evolved. Sites such asmmouthshut.com and epinions are examples of opinion sites.