Cybersociality and social media

It is the online equivalent of being social, such as chatting to friends via messenger services or participating in an online discussion forum/community.

Nowadays, millions of internet users regularly visit thousands of social website to keep linking with their friends, share their thoughts, photos, videos and discuss even about their daily-life. Social networks can be traced back to the first email which was sent in 1971 where two computers were sitting right next to each other.

Social media use is an increasingly important political and social science research area. Domestically and internationally, social media and networked systems are being deployed to organize anti-government dissent, spread disaster information, enhance political campaigning, and magnify the effects of terror recruitment campaigns.

There are so many social networking sites and social media sites that there is even search engine for them. These social websites have had positive and negative impacts; so many people waste most of their time on using these websites, which results in losing their jobs or colleges or even their natural social lives and families.

Cybersociality and social media

Trend of E-commerce

The internet makes it very easy for people to find goods, and it should therefore be just as easy for them to buy the products or services from a website. New technologies are being introduced into the market almost on a daily basis, which in turns opens up new territories and new possibilities in e-commerce. Today, Business to Business (B2B) and Business to Consumer (B2C) are the leading markets of E-commerce.

The emergence of wireless and mobile networks has made possible the introduction of e-commerce to a new application and research subject: mobile commerce. Mobile commerce is a promising trend of commerce because internet-enabled smartphones such as iPhones are becoming very popular these days.

B2C E-commerce moves from simple Web store fronts to interactive marketing capabilities that provide a personalized shopping experience for customers and then toward a totally integrated Web store that support a variety of customer shopping experience.

Previously, websites meant to be informational, just to provide details about products and services, but now the trend is to carry out transaction and money transfer over the internet.

B2C E-commerce also moving toward a self-service model where customers configure and customize the products and services they wish to buy aided by configuration software and online customer support as needed.

E-commerce in social networking involves customer driven online transaction. Usually, these social networking sites integrate across a number of online portals to promote sales.

The need for the integration of several portals is to connect customers to one another such that they can share, recommend products and services which will improve company’s business.
Trend of E-commerce