Social media, a new oppotunity for everyone

Social media is media which mostly uses Internet and web-based technologies to transfer information to a wide audience range in a short time. The basic characteristic of social media today are, low cost(some are free), popular, wide age range, and open to public. Some popular examples are, facebook, myspace, youtube, which provides free profile, information sharing service for free. We are able to know whats happening around the world, our friends easily via these medium. We can also share our audio, video, and some of my friends did get their fame by posting videos in youtube.


Social media doesn't only create a new generation of communication system, it also provides a market, or a chance for everyone to run their own buisness, work society, group, etc. while blogging, discussion in forum becoming more and more popular, the demand of internet trading grows. Ebay, Amazon, was the main source of online trading before, but now, as everyone blog, they are able to sell their own product using blog, facebook, and several forum. They can easily get the product supply from other online source too.

The most influences which social media give to me is the uses of social media marketing. I personally classify social media marketing into 2 types. The first one is, earning directly from the social media, or can be said as kind of information trading, such as digital products, ebook, advertising, referral program, and etc. It also includes some who provide a space for advertising in blog, forum, or a selling sites. Most of them cost nothing to join. Some examples are, clickbank.net, adsense and yahoo overture. Another type of social media market is, earning indirectly from the social media, which means, we do not make money from social media but we use the communication system to have more client and directly sell them our own product. Compared to the 1st one, this require one to build his social communication system while the 1st one only require a constant traffic to their page.

I've been working with the social media which is internet, world wide web for a long time and I tried many of them. For my own experience, for the 2nd type, I was quite active in some forum(or bulletin board system) and have opportunities to know some online sellers. They sell stuff via forum and blogs. When I've gained their trust and did researches within Malaysia Market, price comparison, I decided to offer them a supply for the item they sell, and suggest the price range to them. I imported a box of 2M^3 of creative stuff from China, YiWu,after i get their invoices and 1st payment(enough to cover all my cost so i did pay nothing for that.), I post all the stocks to the seller and they paid me the rest. That's how I earned My 1st thousands via social media market. I also tried some other things like Get paid to programs, adwords, and etc.

Somehow, the convenience of social media also brings down the awareness of privacy and secure of the internet. People does easily trust the person they chatted in the screen, and they could be easily cheated. Some illegal activities like phishing, hacking, planting spywares, can easily expose someone's critical information like bank account information.