The current era is the era of information technology. One of the significant issues of this era is the medium of social communication. People have to live in a society as a social being and keep in touch with each other. The role of social media in making that task extremely easy is immense.
*Social media:
An important subject like communication was once dependent on pigeons or handwritten letters. But in the course of time, in the present age of technology, people are using easier means. One such medium of communication is the Social Networking site or social media. Using it, developed countries have made their communication completely technology dependent. In this case, developing countries like Bangladesh are not lagging behind. The social media is discussed below-
*Facebook:
Facebook is a website of the world-social intercommunication system. Facebook is the largest Internet-based social media. Its founder is Mark Zuckerberg. Facebook started its journey on February 4, 2004 with his hand. It allows users to add friends, send messages and update and exchange their personal information. A user can also connect to city, workplace, school and regional networks.
*Blog:
The word blog comes from weblog. Which means discussion or information related sites. In today's world demand for information has become very necessary. It is difficult and time consuming to get the necessary information by going to thousands of books in books or libraries. And to meet this need, the journey of online web log started which later became known as blog. Anyone who posts on a blog is called a blogger. Blogs are playing a very important role in meeting people's information needs. People are constantly searching for information based on demand for the welfare of blogs and even conducting various surveys including research. As a result, thousands of new blogs are being born every day. With that, millions of articles are being created online.
*Twitter:
Twitter is one of the most popular social media in the world today. Twitter is a social networking and microblogging website, where users can exchange and publish messages of up to 140 words. Twitter launched in March 2006. Nowadays it has become so popular that people from all over the world, from Hollywood to Bollywood, use Twitter.
*Google Plus:
Google Plus is a social networking site for the search engine Google. It has been gaining popularity since its launch. Google Plus is not a popular social networking site like Facebook, the company said. However, even if there is some similarity with Facebook, this kind of initiative is to spread social media among the users.
*Wikipedia:
Wikipedia is a web-based, multilingual, free encyclopedia designed to provide information and services. Jimmy Wells and Larry Sanger are the founders of this globally popular online database. The website was officially launched on January 15, 2001. It is currently being used as the largest and most popular Internet-based reference in the world.
*YouTube:
YouTube is a video sharing website. It is currently the most popular video sharing site in the internet world, through which its members upload, watch and share videos. There are also video reviews and feedback. Founded in February 2005, the site was created by three former PayPal employees - Chad Harley, Steve Bann and Javed Karim of Bangladeshi descent.
*Skype:
Skype is a VoIP service and software application. Through this social communication, users connect to the internet and communicate with each other through voice, video and instant messaging. In 2003, Dhamiza of Denmark, Januz Fridge and Nicolas Genstrom of Sweden founded Skype.
*Other Media:
In addition to the social media mentioned above, there are other social media such as: MySpace, Blogmate, AOL Instant Messenger, FaceTime (Macintol), Google Talk, Google Voice, ICQ, IBM Lotus Semtime, Windows Live Messenger, Gmail, etc.
Social Media is very important part and parcel of our daily life. And we will use perfectly every social media.
