New Media Blog - Roni Avshalumov

After visiting multiple social networking platforms I have seen differences between them. I visited  Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and Reddit. When it comes to Instagram and Twitter they both use hashtags but Instagram is to just post a photo and comment and like those pictures, Twitter on the other hand gives you a limited amount of space and I saw more words rather than graphics. Facebook doesn't show every post that occurred and is more of pages you liked sharing things such as news or articles that you have to click on to further view. As for Reddit which was my favorite, you can find any subreddit which is a page dedicated to a certain topic that shows who is part of the subreddit and how many are online. Anyone can post anything on it and it can get up voted or down voted. This is a good way to be surrounded by people who are interested in a similar topic and interact with them.

Social Networking has become a huge part of our current society and while it does have a lot of positives for corporations and personal life, it does come with its fair share of negatives. Social networking can be used for corporations by having your own page on Facebook to market your business and also to reach out to people on social networking with advertisements and promotions. Social networking technologies benefit society by allowing the ability to connect more with businesses, social life, and entertainment and information. Facebook has one of the biggest social networks and according to the Chicago Tribune article by Reuters, Facebook search: Facebook adding search feature, it states that "s earch makes user activity even more relevant to advertisers, and allows greater focus." This explains how searching through a social network allows benefits for advertisers and puts more focus on many things searched. Also according to the article, Social Networking ...

A blog is your own website created to express your thoughts and share it with whoever wants to view it. It's a way to express yourself and it can be about anything you want. The newest post is put on the top of your page, so it can be seen first. Blogs can be very useful as according to the New York Times article,"Brooklyn Blog Helps Lead to Drug Raid" by Michael Wilson, people in the neighborhood were discussing a suspicious home in Bay ridge that was sought out to be a drug home and was taken care of due to the bloggers. Blogs can be used for collaboration by promoting your business or yourself and also sharing other people's blog posts to collaborate and build a community. A wiki on the other hand is also a website, but it is collaborative in a different way as all the members of that wiki can edit it. This allows for everyone part of that group to contribute and change what they find fit. The most famous wiki is Wikipedia. According to the article, "Wikipedi...

My topic for the research project is Online shopping subscriptions. I am going to discuss how they work, why they are so relevant in our society today, different examples and fields that subscriptions exist in, and the what the future may hold within this area. The biggest example is Amazon Prime which is a huge online shopping subscription that many people use very often. Also there are their competitors such as Jet.com and others as well. I will show the amount of people who have certain subscriptions and if there is growth within this area and what changes are also being made to add on to these subscriptions. I believe this is a very interesting topic and it is relevant in our current time period and can become more important as time goes on.