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Social media is a method used to influence people to believe certain ideas to follow certain courses of action. Social media in the past has sold everything from toothpaste to war. Now we have the greatest tool at our fingertips…the internet. The list of users of social media includes editors, advertisers, teachers, politicians, preachers, salesmen, authors, reformers, artists--as well as our parents, our friends and ourselves.

Wikipedia: Social media is media for social interaction, using highly accessible and scalable communication techniques. Social media is the use of web-based and mobile technologies to turn communication into interactive dialogue.

In recent times books, magazines, e-books, cell phones, email, handbills, newspapers, posters, door hangers, postcards, letters, radio, television, motion pictures, theater and billboards. Now we have the internet with Twitter, Face book, You Tube--as well as all the others! As you can see if one can’t read he can hear. Every form of audience can be reached by social media with the tool of choice.

There is a common impression that we should be suspicious of anything called social media because it can be shady. The word can be connected by the activities of selfish or dishonest persons who conceal their real purposes and perhaps even their identity. Whether we consider it good or bad depends upon what we think. Always more comforting for a person to feel that he’s more intelligent, attractive and virtuous than perhaps he actually is.

What it all boils down to is, any means of communications may be used as a tool for spreading social media. A great deal of social media passes from person to person in private conversations. The most effective work to date is the internet! It’s now even more effective to top civic, political, social and personal contact.

But whispering campaigns are often used by the social media who don’t wish to be held publicly responsible for the ideas they set afloat. Here’s the thing in a nutshell. Whatever social media you want to spread social media to every man, women and child on the face of the earth, good or bad can be spread. All they need is a internet laptop and a cell phone.

Even in the most remote location like some Alaskan villages, that don’t even have roads going to one village to another. If they have a laptop and a cell phone…social media could and does reach them.

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