Social media is a term used when discussing any number of online technologies or practices used by people to share opinions, insights, experiences, and perspectives with each other. It takes many forms: text, images, audio, and video. Popular mediums include include blogs, message boards, podcasts, wikis, and vlogs, or video logs.
Just a few prominent examples are Wikipedia, MySpace, YouTube, Flickr and more.
Hitwise says 2.0 sites — more appropriately known as social media sites — make up 12% of Web traffic, up from 2% two years ago.
The top social sites:
digg
12,156,271 Unique Monthly Visitors (United States) – Rank: 61 – Compete
4,800,000 Unique Monthly Visitors (United States) – Rank: 180 – Quantcast
netscape
5,832,349 Unique Monthly Visitors (United States) – Rank: 179 – Compete
5,300,000 Unique Monthly Visitors (United States) – Rank: 159 – Quantcast
del.icio.us
909,091 Unique Monthly Visitors (United States) – Rank: 1,965 – Compete
923,442 Unique Monthly Visitors (United States) – Rank: 1,671 – Quantcast
stumbleupon
390,523 Unique Monthly Visitors (United States) – Rank: 4,793 – Compete
386,470 Unique Monthly Visitors (United States) – Rank: 4,647 – Quantcast
433,070 Unique Monthly Visitors (United States) – Rank: 4,311 – Compete
100,398 Unique Monthly Visitors (United States) – Rank: 19,070 – Quantcast
Emerging technologies continue to make the process more accessible to users, enhancing the conversation across the world’s most powerful communication tool.
And remember, the internet is an adolescent.
