The Evolution Of Social Media

Social media word first appeared in 2007, "What is social media?"E-book, social media keywords based on user-generated content has become the main source of Internet content. In the U.S., Facebook and Twitter social media had a huge influence in the global, and gradually developed into a match with portals, search engines and e-commerce Internet-based applications. In 1994, the establishment of the Shogun Forum indicates that China’s social media was born, in the subsequent decade, forums, review sites and instant messaging tools to constantly enrich the lives of Internet users. Since 2004, blogs, video sharing, Q & A, Wikipedia, the SNS, micro-blog, LBS, buy, etc. sprang up like mushrooms, the pattern of social media is becoming increasingly complex. From 2010, cross-border integration of the various social media as a new attempt. The development of social media in China is only less than 20 years, but there have been so many forms, but is increasingly reflected in the continuing exploration and analysis of explosive growth, leading the field of network communication research.Innovative Internet format was emerging; the future will definitely have many innovative Internet formats and Internet products. Similarly, social media in the continuous development, Chinese social media framework from the website of the United States. The evolution of social media there must be some regularity, study the evolution of social media law, to provide a reference for the Chinese Internet product innovation.This paper first on the bearing platform, media and social attributes of three defines the definition of social media. In this paper the social media features summaries for the user to create content, two-way communication, strong social, media convergence, huge information system. From the perspective of communication to "information" and "people" as the standard to classify the combination of social media category, and discusses the development course of Chinese social media. And through the abstraction in the process of dissemination of elements, respectively, established a forum, blog, SNS, Wikipedia, micro-blog as the representative of the social media transmission pattern. And then from the user requirements, user created content and fusion phenomenon point of view through the comparative analysis of typical social media, transmitted from the types of expansion, more information to people change, transmission speed and spatial restriction attenuated, fusion trend perspective summarizes social media evolution rule.