Social media

Social behavior will only occur when more people communicate with each other. This doesn't have to mean they have to speak to each other as a form of communication but also can be other forms of communication like smiling et cetera. The other factor that I think distinguishes social media in today's sense is the availability of readily accessible and highly scalable publishing technologies.

Social media is significant in that a very personal set of communications can be shared rapidly with a global audience through the highly scalable communications of the Internet and mobile communications networks. The technologies that make this possible are highly accessible, many of them available for free or for minimal expenditures.

As i look at it after studying it for almost half a year, i think it isn't about the definition but about what has changed since traditional and new media. I think that social media should refer to all media most likely on the internet that facilitates social behavior like sharing, debating, recommending, playing games and so on. 

Social media is an umbrella term, defining the activities that come together in a medium using more than one sense of sight, sound, or motion to create displays, picture-sharing opportunities, and connection points through content. A collaborative opportunity to create, post, and react to pictures, or videos is critical to social media.