Using Social Media to Learn and Communicate: It Is Not About the Tweet

Abstract

Social media can be defined as the use of media to interact with social networks. Social media is not about the content of the tweet, inasmuch as the technologies and social media platforms influence how content is generated, disseminated, and used. Social media is not dead, but rather it offers rapid incoming and outgoing forms of communication, which may be utilized in a variety of “use cases” in medicine and oncology.KEY POINTSSocial media is a form of media.Social media is not dead.Social media offers rapid incoming and outgoing forms of communication.Twitter and other forms of social media are tools.Tools are only tools if they are useful.