Active Role of Social Media in Pakistan by Abid Dasti

Social Networking∗ Social Networking is the use of communities to engage

with others: Facebook, MySpace, LinkedIn, Twitter. Social Networking sites often include social media tools to facilitate the interaction and conversation

Social Media is Consumer generated media It is media that is

designed to be shared, sharing means that it is easy to comment on, that it is easy to send, there are no costs associated with viewing the media and last but not least it is always available.

Social media enables people to share information with friends and colleges using the Internet

The Asian Market

Social Networking

Facebook is the world's largest social network, with more than 995 million users. People mainly use it to connect with important people in their life.

Pakistan reached about 17 million Facebook users, with more than 50% users in the 18-34 age brackets, and with the majority of the remaining below 18 years.

Twitter allows you to post your ideas in just 140 characters

Letters, numbers, symbols, punctuation and spaces all count as characters on Twitter.

What all of this means is, you have to be concise. You have to know exactly what you want to say, and say it in as few words as possible.

Top Twitter Accounts of Pakistan

WHAT IS IT? LinkedIn helps people with employment via online networking – like an online resume Allows you to maintain a ‘work life’ profileWAYS TO USE ITJoin a Group for join discussions and view job postings Help them establish an online body of work.

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