The Personal, business and social implications of social media

Social presence Having a great social media presence is important and can help your business and can help your business grow, but this can only happen if you can learn how to give your followers what they want. There are some great ways any business can increase their social media presence and help their business grow. The first step is to identify  your objectives and goals. Make sure you know how each platform works, and what audiences you can reach where and what you want to get out this to achieve your goals. Let them know you are human. let your customers see your softer side, which means interact with your followers so you can understand what their needs and wants are and to show them that you are more interested in them than just making money. Don't just stick to the one social media platform, have some variety, as not all people use just the one page ie people might prefer Instagram to Facebook. also go further in customer service, if your customers have compla...

 Social Production & Intelligence Social Production Social production is where people find solutions to there problems, they can do this by something called collaboration which is done using a variety of social media such as Blogs, YouTube as these can help provide solutions to problems as well as provide a way for people who have previously known nothing about a certain area or topic to now having a good understanding. It provides value as it is helping deal with problems or hindrances that people may have as you would be not only sharing opinions/ideas/solutions with others but you would also be improving your status as you would be a good reliable person/source to go to. For instance on a blog/forum if somebody has made a worthwhile contribution to it but it is rather vague or doesn't completely grasp a certain area then you could reply and add to the area as this may solve a problem that somebody was having problems with it. I believe that this shows that...

Social media can be a very scary place when it comes to certain situations such as people pretending to be someone else on sites, peoples lives can be ruined within minutes all due to one person framing them and pretending to be them. Not to mention people that take things too far to find out lots about a certain someone from their social media profile. The online world can be a very haunting place. . From a website online, researches have been known to be looking up ways to improve social media's privacy for users, they talk of how they need to create more friendly tools on the websites so that as many people can stay safe and protected. Some examples of how we can make social media more private is by having a tool that lets you see who's viewed your profile, some apps have this tool such as an app called Musical.ly, but Facebook and twitter, the worlds current two top social media sites don't seem to have this tool properly. With this precaution, it means people c...

The dangers of social media to individuals and businesses   Individuals Trade in online information is now at a significant level and inevitably in the hands of criminal organisations and this means many individuals are experiencing what is often called identity theft, so caution needs to be every individuals number one priority when it comes to creating and handling a social media account. Other risks to individuals include hacking in which their social media account along with private information and possibly messages are stolen and made no longer accessible to the user, stalking is another and his happens quite a lot but this is due to the amount of information people carelessly provide about themselves online, making it much easier for them to be stalked / harassed, to avoid this people should always limit the information they provide about themselves online. There is a never ending list of risks to individuals on social media but steps can be taken to...