Disposable Communication On The Internet: What You Need To Know About Disposable Communication On Social Media These days, social media – large platforms like LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter, message boards, and texting have become the norm to communicate. Few people realize however that their communication on many of these “channels” is completely disposable. In essence, that means…
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Communicating About Social Media – Does Such A Broad Definition of Social Media Cause Problems?
Yes. In fact it’s a huge unrecognized problem because of the way social media is discussed both within social media platforms, and by standard media such as television, or print publications. Here’s why. If you take a look at the variety or types of social media we indicated were accepted as falling under the umbrella…
What Platforms and Tools Are Considered Part of Social Media?
Almost Anything! When one develops definitions of a “something” it is desirable to define what things are included in the definition, and what things are NOT included in the definitions. The less things that are excluded, the less useful the definition, and its meaning because it’s simply too general to facilitate effective communication. Such is…
Online Communication Inferior To Print, Research says
Limits on Social Media Communication Effectiveness Research Shows That Reading On A Screen Is Much Inferior To Reading In Print One of the problems about how people use social media to communicate is they fail to recognize that each platform has different inherent strengths and weaknesses. They don’t take into account the different reader behaviors that…
Social Media: The Chameleon YOU Shape
Social Media Platforms Are What YOU Make Of Them What Does It Mean When People Say: “Twitter Is Whatever You Want It To Be”? One of the really fascinating things about social media is that people who use it (let’s say Twitter), have quite different experiences depending on: how they use it what they use…
Why Twitter Communication Is Hard
The Challenges Of Effective Communication On Twitter According to recent statistics, over 600 MILLION tweets a day are sent. That’s a staggering amount of participation, and presumably, those sending those tweets are trying to communicate with others. Except, apparently, there’s little exchanging of meaning on Twitter, and little effective communication, at least relative to the…