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Social Media
Introduction of Social Media page 1 How to start your E life with social media page 2 Diverse choices of social media platform page 3 How to balance your time with network
Five principles to observe while networking

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Designer: Zhang Kai

Introduction of Social Media

Five principles to observe while networking There is some basic etiquette that students when using social media have to pay attention to. The first one is to be humble. People should clearly remember that Social Media existed before they decided to join in networking. There are experts majoring in social media. None can expect that he know more than those spend much of their time in Facebook. Before you first use any application, first take some time to discover it and to learn about its history and basic rules. Secondly, to make the Internet life substantial and grab other users attention, students should be active to update his status. taking the lead and being active can always help you to develop a relationship with someone. Make sure that your content is always fresh and that you engage in discussions with your customers. Anywhere, anytime, take pictures about what you are doing and upload it. The first step to get attention is to comment others work. Always get connect with your friends and common on the new layout and get feedback. Finally, anytime remember to be honest in the Internet. What you say on the Internet is recorded and you have no chance to remove it once you post it. Though peoples accounts are anonymous, it does not mean that you can deliver anything as you like. Freedom is equal to anyone. There was a thrilling example. Anheuser-Busch, owner of SeaWorld matinemammal parks tried to rectify the misleading information on the Wikipedia which is not allowed by the term that the companies are not allowed to involve in the edition of Wikipedia. In social media networking, we also need to observe the basic principles.

How to balance your time with networking? Mark Fabbri said Networking addiction is related to a compulsion to consume something or engage in asset of behaviors to the point that it significantly interferes with a persons life. (ND) Because they are fresh, they can easily learn to try different kinds of networking tools. Consequently, with less self-control ability, they get addition with social networking tools. If you find someone always check his phone and can't spend a whole day without the Internet, he is possibly addicted to network. There are a lot of reasons for a new user couldn't spend a day without network. The first one is that the huge amount of information which maybe, to a certain extent, open your mind and widen your vision, however is useless and attractive for new users. More importantly, every user in the Internet has the opportunity to extend his friend's circle as large as he wants. A chain effect may happen to you that each time you get connected to a different friend; his own friends can also invite you to join their circle. Finally, you sink into unnecessary discussions with friends in the internet. Another reason is that the users always pay too much attention to their profiles. Most of addicted users focus on the decoration of the profiles rather than the content of his website. They pay a lot of time on the intricate decoration and design of their profiles. In fact, there is no need to spend more time to modify a profile even than the time one spends recording and uploading pictures or videos on it.

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Diverse choices of social media platform To make the best choice of social media platform, you should have an overview of the diverse features. In university, social media has already been a useful tool for both teaching and learning. There are many useful website which have been proved successful between students and professors, such as Facebook and twitter. However, each of them has its own feature. Firstly, different platforms have different scale of users. Undeniably, Facebook with the largest users deserves to be called a sharp tool among number of websites in terms of popularity . Facebook also equips with common functions like designing individual profile, posting pictures also videos and get connect with your friends. By the way, it is easy to operate it on any mobile devices. The users of Twitter and Google+ seem to be in the shade. Secondly, standing on the point that users can manage and classify his friends conveniently, Google+ equips a new creative function differently from the traditional ones. It belongs to the biggest search engine, Google. Every day you open your use this search engine. In the meantime, you log in your Google+ account. In the Google+, users can build different circles of communicatees based on diverse categories like friends, families as well as colleagues. So everything you put on the Google+ can be easily chose to be seen for a certain group of people. Thirdly, compared with Facebook and Google+, Twitter focus more on the profiles design and storage function. The diverse resource and functions can fulfill almost any kind of people like bloggers, on-line marketers and evangelists (Twitter versus Facebook: Should you Choose One?, 2009). It also requires creative idea and well-designed profile that can grab visitors eyes. With an attractive layout, you can get more follows and focus. With more followers, the questions that post on Twitter can be responded immediately. That is unique compared with others. There are pros and cons in different tools, make a thoughtful choice based on the need you have.

How to start your E life with social media We should appreciate the fact that NUS has IVLE and WIKI for our students. Such sharp tools make us cool when confronting numerous tasks to achieve on the Internet. Consequently, it is crucial that students need to learn how to use social media correctly and efficiently. The whole process contains selecting a kind of social media platform; registering to be a user and recording your daily life in forms of pictures or videos as you like. For example, if you want to be a user of Facebook, the first thing you have to make sure that you have friends who also use Facebook. That is important for you to integrate with the help from your friends into Facebook and to share your experience with known friends efficiently under a certain aim rather than do that work randomly. The next step is requiring an account; it needs your personal email address. This process can be done in a few minutes. Visit the official website (www.facebook.com), and then click the sign up button. After finish an information collection form, you will receive an email, it contain a link to the confirmation page from Facebook. Just for few minutes, you can become one of the Facebook users (Veloso, 2008). Social media are all about communication and sharing. For example, people use Facebook to post everything they like. Tidbits, pictures or videos of activities, short poems and so on. If you are a brand new to this website, usually take a look at what your expert friends post in their profile and learn from it. Make sure to update your status in time with your friends in appropriate frequency so that you friends get acquainted with you. If you finish all these processions correctly, you will be an expert in social media sooner or later.

Introduction of social media Social media support interactive communication and provide platform to show your idea and experience. With the gradually updating of Internet technology and diverse kinds of communication website, social media gains large scale of users. For example, Facebook, which is one of the most popular on-line communication companies, occupies 175 million active users. This is over twice of the population of Germany (80 million) (Kaplan & Haenlein, 2010). Different kinds of social media are utilized among different fields in terms of functions and requirement of security. Social media have been utilized in three fields including education, personal communication, and business. Social media began to serve education at the beginning of its development because a large part of the social media technology is created and advanced in the universities lab . With such a priority, a lot of universities have social media platforms to post the assignments and arrangements of time table for students. Students used to finish on-line practice as well. Right on the home page of each university, you can find the open class videos. This kind of platform has to protect some of the private information and copyright academic materials. Except for the websites held by universities, there is a kind of more convenient and freer social media platform prepared for ordinary users . Basic functions are providing net space for the to upload users pictures or videos and getting comments. This kind of information storage usually used by the individual users does not have high level of protection. On the contrary, this personal social media are more focus on the recreational functions and artistic visual experience. Another significant field where social media is widely used is business. This kind of websites for business usage compared with the formers requires more professional security and better management. Most famous ones like Google and Apple have their inner networking system that is only open to their stuff. Social media plays an essential part in education, personal communication and business.