Trends of Web 2.0: Get close to Social Media

Abstract

The development of Web 2.0 will bring us into a new era. The advantage of Furthermore the development of Web 2.0 will give rise to the presence of social media: namely instant messages, social networking services, blog and micro-blogging which are the most important social media tools by now. Due to social media's characteristics of immediacy, openness, interoperability, decentralisa-tion and other features, it has set off a wave of social media. This article aims to conduct a comprehensive review for social media which will exert certain influence on further studies of social media.