Social Media is no rocket science, but Social media's usage and effectiveness is often misinterpreted. Social Media is a combined work for all platforms which are driven by user generated contents, thereby taking the power of internet to every individual like you.

Some of the key Social Media platforms/application are:

Blogging Microblogging (Twitter) Social networking (Facebook, Orkut) Professional networking (Linkedln) Podcasting RSS Online Bookmarking (Digg, StumbleUpon) Flickr (Photo sharing)