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Does social media contribute a positive or a negative impact to teenage behaviour. Zikhundla125 (talk) 07:49, 13 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Modification in Characteristics of Social Media

In addition to user generated content, we added "user shared content" because a lot of content comes from existing information in social media. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 216.165.95.184 (talk) 22:41, 19 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Greetings, thank you for your contribution to the article. I believe that the text you added is slightly repetitive. "User-shared" content is included under the umbrella of "user-generated" as well as "data generated through all online interactions". I should add that it is questionable whether "user-shared" is an accurate term as this doesn't appear in the literature cited, thus a potential question of WP:Verifiability. Happy to discuss this further. Best, --Jaobar (talk) 16:44, 3 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]

List of Social Media frauds?

Is it good to have a List of Social media frauds? Do you remember the fraudster couple who raised money for a homeless veteran, here is a clip (here). Another one is a woman who adopted a autistic child from China for the same purpose (here).--Kiatdd (talk) 07:08, 29 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Merge proposal

There is a lot of overlap between this article and Social networking service as discussed above. The previous discussion is two years old. I myself was confused when trying to find an article to describe social media/networking services such as LinkedIn, Twitter, Facebook and Snapchat. Does anyone have any advice on a merge? --Buffaboy ^talk 03:00, 26 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]

As someone who researches this stuff, I don't recommend merging the articles. There are distinct audiences for the two articles, with the audience for SNS being considerably smaller. Furthermore, social media functionality differs from SNS services specifically, with the former being a much broader construct as compared to the latter. Happy to discuss this further, if interested. --Jaobar (talk) 06:23, 30 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]
- As this thread doesn't seem to be generating comments, I recommend that we remove the flag. I recommend keeping the two articles separate. Best, --Jaobar (talk) 02:39, 3 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]
- I honestly find myself struggling greatly to understand the distinction between "social media" and "social networking service" even after reading your post. It doesn't help that the latter's article lists "social media" as an alternative name, and the old discussion on the other article's Talk page points out that it seems the two terms appear to have a "promotional, consumer-oriented" vs. "technical, neutral-sounding" contrast. MarqFJA87 (talk) 13:06, 20 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Article length

I removed the warning tag because it's just tag spam. This article is long and would benefit from splitting. I'll take a look and see if there's any obvious splitting I can do. Please feel free to do more or to present ideas how to fix the problem. Be a fixer, not a tag bomber. Jehochman ^Talk 13:02, 29 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]

@Jehochman: I agree that is too long. I think a good section to split off may be the controversy section. Additionally, there are many Wikipedia sub-articles about social media that are referenced in this article, and streamlining the information presented in this document would be useful. Moofinberry ^Talk 22 October 2020 (UTC)

Should we remove the section on Malcolm Gladwell?

From the research I've done, I've come to the conclusion that Malcolm Gladwell is fundamentally *not a reliable source*. Here are some links: https://slate.com/technology/2013/10/malcolm-gladwell-critique-david-and-goliath-misrepresents-the-science.html https://www.theguardian.com/books/2013/sep/29/malcolm-gladwell-david-and-goliath-interview

He has admitted to falsifying data in the interests of making a compelling story. I believe we shouldn't cite him at all. What do you all think? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Asbruckman (talk • contribs) 17:25, 2 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]

A rewrite from better refs, especially independent sources, seems a better approach, unless it's clear that such sources don't exist. --Hipal (talk) 19:05, 2 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Lead image?

File:Social Media.jpg

The current lead image (File:Social Media.jpg) shows a photo of a cellphone with some apps on it. However, most of these apps are not what I would consider "social media," and as such this may confuse readers. Is there a more suitable image that could be used? AllegedlyHuman (talk) 05:20, 13 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]

@AllegedlyHuman: I support a change but cannot suggest an alternative image.

I nominated the image for deletion due to copyright violation. The twitter bird and snapchat ghost are copyrighted images prominently featured here to communicate the subject of the image. Blue Rasberry (talk) 18:38, 27 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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Social Media in today’s world is a network of application that people can use to share and create with people across the globe. The first social media website was created in 1997 with the site “Six Degrees.” The idea didn’t fully catch on until 2005 when Mark Zuckerberg created Facebook. Since then, 75% of the world’s population is engaging in social media across hundreds of platforms.

https://www.pewresearch.org/internet/fact-sheet/social-media/#find-out-more

https://online.maryville.edu/blog/evolution-social-media/

Drew.williams15 (talk) 18:40, 15 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]

October 2021 proposed merge with Social networking service

There is a merge discussion at Talk:Social networking service#Proposed merge of Social media with Social networking service. Enterprisey (talk!) 08:38, 18 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Peer Review

Organization: I think that your information is organized in a clear way that’s easy to follow. They started with the first social media and formed their organization in chronological order. Balance: There is no information that seems unnecessary and I actually think that more information could’ve been included. Some information that could’ve been added is more information regarding other social media that was created. Like what was the next social media website after “Six Degrees”. No, this article is not arguing a certain point and is very fair. Neutrality: The only part I could see that would maybe be unneutral is the part that says, “The idea didn’t fully catch on until 2005,”. You could say that this is an opinion because there’s no facts to support it. Like there could’ve been some statistics about the users of Six Degrees vs. the users of Facebook. No, this author does not make any claims on an unnamed group of people. I think that this article is very neutral. It’s not showing anything in a negative or positive way but just facts. Reliability: These statements are from reliable sources such as textbooks and journal articles. One of the sources is from a .edu website and another one is from a .org website. These are very reliable sources and aren’t biased from what I looked over. No, there aren’t any statements that rely heavily on one or two sources. After reading through the articles, the information in the articles could be found on the websites and sources listed.

In my opinion, I think that this is a really good start. The information was simple and easy to follow. The sources were good and reliable, plus the information in the article was found on the sources page. The information was represented in a way that wasn’t plagiarism. I really liked the statistic that you put in though. The criticism I would give this article is that I think it was too short. You could’ve added more information like other social media that came before Facebook. ````Kaylin Gomes — Preceding unsigned comment added by Kgomes11 (talk • contribs) 02:32, 8 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]