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Social MediaIntroduction of Social Media page 1How to start your E life with social media page 2Diverse choices of social media platform page 3How to balance your time with network page 4Five principles to observe while networking Page 5

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Introduction ofSocial Media

How to balance your time with networking?

Mark Fabbri said Networking addiction is related to a compulsion to consumesomething or engage in asset of behaviors to the point that it significantly inter-feres 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 abil-

ity, they get addition with social networking tools. If you find someone alwayscheck 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 daywithout network. The first one is that the huge amount of information which may-

be, to a certain extent, open your mind and widen your vision, however is uselessand 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 ownfriends can also invite you to join their circle. Finally, you sink into unnecessary

discussions with friends inthe internet. Another reason

is that the users always pay

too much attention to theirprofiles. Most of addicted

users focus on the decorationof the profiles rather than the

content of his website. Theypay a lot of time on the intri-

cate decoration and design of

their profiles. In fact, there isno need to spend more time

to modify a profile even thanthe time one spends record-

ing and uploading pictures or

videos on it.

Five principles to

observe while net-working

There is some basic

etiquette that students

when using socialmedia have to pay attention to. The first one is to be humble. People

should clearly remember that Social Media existed before they decid-ed to join in networking. There are experts majoring in social media.

None can expect that he know more than those spend much of theirtime 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 usersattention, students should be active to update his status. taking the

lead and being active can always help you to develop a relationshipwith 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 toget attention is to comment others work. Always get connect with

your friends and common on the new layout and get feedback. Final-ly, anytime remember to be honest in the Internet. What you say on

the Internet is recorded and you have no chance to remove it onceyou 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 ofSeaWorld matinemammal parks tried to rectify the misleading infor-mation 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 princi-ples.

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Diverse choices of social media p latform

To make the best choice of social media platform, you should have an overview of the diversefeatures. 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 profes-

sors, such as Facebook and twitter. However, each of them has its own feature. Firstly, differentplatforms 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 con-nect with your friends. By the way, it is easy to operate it on any mobile devices. The users ofTwitter and Google+ seem to be in the shade. Secondly, standing on the point that users can man-

age 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 usethis 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 wellas 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 pro-

files 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 anattractive 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 athoughtful choice based on the need you have.

How to start your E life with social mediaWe should appreciate the fact that NUS has IVLE and WIKIfor our students. Such sharp tools make us cool when confront-

ing numerous tasks to achieve on the Internet. Consequently, itis crucial that students need to learn how to use social mediacorrectly and efficiently. The whole process contains selectinga kind of social media platform; registering to be a user andrecording your daily life in forms of pictures or videos as youlike. For example, if you want to be a user of Facebook, thefirst thing you have to make sure that you have friends whoalso use Facebook. That is important for you to integrate with

the help from your friends into Facebook and to share your ex-perience with known friends efficiently under a certain aim ra-ther than do that work randomly. The next step is requiring anaccount; 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. Afterfinish an information collection form, you will receive anemail, it contain a link to the confirmation page from Facebook.Just for few minutes, you can become one of the Facebook us-ers (Veloso, 2008). Social media are all about communicationand sharing. For example, people use Facebook to post every-thing they like. Tidbits, pictures or videos of activities, short

poems and so on. If you are a brand new to this website, usuallytake a look at what your expert friends post in their profile and

learn from it. Make sure to update your status in time with yourfriends in appropriate frequency so that you friends get ac-quainted with you. If you finish all these processions correctly,you will be an expert in social media sooner or later.

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Introduction of social media

Social media support interactive communication and provide platform to show your idea and experience. With thegradually updating of Internet technology and diverse kinds of communication website, social media gains largescale of users. For example, Facebook, which is one of the most popular on-line communication companies, occu-

pies 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 ofsecurity. 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 mediatechnology 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-

linepractice as well. Right on the home page of each university, you can find the open class videos. This kind of plat-form 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 kindof 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 sig-nificant field where social media is widely used is business. This kind of websites for business usage compared withthe 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.