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1. What these concepts mean to you? 


Social networking has encouraged new ways to communicate and share information. Social networking is an act of engagement. Groups of people with common interests, or like-minds, associate together on social networking sites and build relationships through community.
And I think New Media including broadcast, Internet and Print Media.


More Interesting Information:
The main types of social networking services are those which contain category divisions (such as former school-year or classmates), means to connect with friends (usually with self-description pages) and a recommendation system linked to trust. Popular methods now combine many of these, with MySpace, Facebook, Twitter andLinkedIn being the most widely used in North America;[2] Nexopia (mostly in Canada);[3] Bebo,[4] Facebook, Hi5, MySpace, dol2day (mostly in Germany), Tagged, XING;[5] and Skyrock in parts of Europe;[6] Orkut, Facebook and Hi5 in South America and Central America;[7] and Friendster, Orkut, Xiaonei and Cyworld in Asia and the Pacific Islands.


http://socialnetworkinglab.com/2009/04/06/social-networking/


2. Are they related or different? 


I believe that social networks are the new media. 


3. How do you believe social networks and new media have and will change how we communicate with one another?


The first is that communication is no longer one way. Sure, we had letters to the editor and you could have your own public access television show, but for the average media consumer, there was no real chance of being heard before New Media. That’s definitely new for most of us.
Secondly, the time compression is phenomenal. For example, it might takes a long time to edit and print the magazine and newspaper, also have to spent another day to ship before anyone can even read. But today, you post, you get hit. That fast. Sweet. 
I’m sure there are other differences, but being able to be heard quickly by people who are communicating with you is what sets New Media apart for me.




PS:  I still believe that far more people are writing than reading. -_-!