Human Needs & Social Media

As human beings, we enjoy social media because it satisfies our need to feel connected. By sharing our thoughts and giving our opinions we feel valued and appreciated. Social Media is a quick way to enhance your knowledge on diverse topics and can serve as a meaningful diversion after a long day. Social media is thus an extension of our needs, helping us to achieve a greater meaning in our lives. 

LinkedIn is an online community of business professionals were you can add connections and view others' credentials.  It is also a very informative platform to find articles on topics you like.

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Online bulletin boards are where you do public posts or collect your ideas, opinions and style. They give individuality and enhance a sense of diverse self. People are able to also find others with similar interest and opinions on online forums discussing questions as on Ask.com. For collecting visual ideas you can create your own boards on Pinterest.

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Sites that can be seen as lists of things are Craigslist and Angie's list, and other sites with directory lists of local businesses like local.com's, your local chamber, or your local RelyLocal. These differ in their purpose but all have a commonality in combining local online traffic for ratings.

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Online Newspapers helps you to stay up-to-date with events in your community. Many traditional newspapers are making the transition to an online presence while forerunners of online editions are topix.com and patch.com.

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Blogging sites help you to capture your meaningful thoughts and ideas in an online journal. Blogger, Wordpress, and Tumblr are all online blogging sites. Weebly is also a more advanced alternative to blogging with a blog embedded in your website. This especially helps with new organic search results driving traffic to your website.

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Twitter is an online community of people following each other and sending short messages / text messages between users.

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Flicker and Picasa and Instagram are all photo editing and sharing sites.

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YouTube and Vimeo are both video sharing website were users can upload, share, and view videos. YouTube tends to cater to a younger generation with more amateur content and adds. Vimeo caters to a more  trendy and artistic crowd who are serous about video making with less obvious adds.

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Spotify, Last.fm, and Pandora are all online music streaming sites. They allow you to listen to music for free on demand and often provides cloud storage so you can create your own playlists.

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Your Website is the center of your universe and should also be the center of what you are trying to achieve online. See the Manipulate tab under Google Ratings for a more detailed explanation on how to use your social media to drive traffic to your website. I use the free platform Weebly to create websites for my clients.

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Virtual online networks like Facebook, MySpace and Google Plus, help us to visualize our world. They provide a hyper stimulated online environment where users can interact with each other. ​

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The world wide web, or www, is a vastness of global information connecting us as a human race. We all add and contribute to it's growth, sharing our knowledge. Different types of Search Engines include Google, Bing and Yahoo.

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Then the 'Space Ship' you use to 'travel' through the alternative cyber-space universe is called your browser. Your main choices are Google Chrome, Firefox, and Internet Explorer. Your online experience is determined, and very much differs, depending on which one you use. If you want clean and quick results I would say go straight to the source and use Google's own browser, Google Chrome. Click on the live links to download your 'ship' upgrade now!

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