How Did Social Media Emerge?

Technology & Internet
Mar 2013, Thu

Systems Enabling Information Exchange

Although it has entered our language and individuals cannot fully define it, social media, which is fully realized in our minds, takes its place in the middle of our lives. With a simple definition, we can define it as a system that allows individuals to access the information they are looking for on the internet or to exchange information with other individuals over the internet.

Accessing Up-to-Date Information Most Quickly

With the internet becoming usable by individuals and turning into a communication network, users chose to access up-to-date information in the finest detail most quickly, i.e., the internet, instead of searching page by page in encyclopedias and books. As a result, social media was born. In its early days, this medium was weak in terms of content. Social media was fully born over time as individuals who did not have websites could also add their comments to the shared content.