Chapter 19

Social media sharing

Abstract

There are plenty of social media sites that allow social interaction around users sharing media like photos, videos, and music. In all cases, the social component of these sites comes from people being able to follow others who post things a person finds interesting. The content people share on these sites can reveal a lot of information as we have already seen in the chapters about Instagram and YouTube. This chapter presents an overview of the different types of information people share on these sites and how to find those people.

Keywords

Social media

Social networks

Photos

Videos

Music

In addition to the many sites dedicated to supporting social networking as their main purpose, there are plenty ...

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