Social News
Social news loosely refers to websites that don't create news content, but facilitate users to share and vote on the merit of various links. These links can be to news articles, pictures, movies, or anything else that can be linked to. These sites are becoming increasingly important as they eat into Google's share of Internet traffic referrals. Google makes a fortune being the source of a lot of traffic for website owners, but what will happens as social news and social networking sites become the senders of traffic?
This module discusses the effect of being featured on the front page of a social news website, as well as the larger trend of content aggregators.
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What trends or changes in your consumer behavior have you noticed that are related to your use of the Internet?
- Cite examples with links to support your findings
- Respond via comments on this page
- Reply to class colleagues’ posts
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