TY - JFULL AU - A. T. M Shahjahan and Kutub Uddin Chisty PY - 2014/7/ TI - Social Media Research and Its Effect on Our Society T2 - International Journal of Information and Communication Engineering SP - 2008 EP - 2013 VL - 8 SN - 1307-6892 UR - https://publications.waset.org/pdf/9998891 PU - World Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology NX - Open Science Index 90, 2014 N2 - Social media refers to the means of interactions among people in which they create share, exchange and comment contents among themselves in virtual communities and networks. Social media or "social networking" has almost become part of our daily lives and being tossed around over the past few years. It is like any other media such as newspaper, radio and television but it is far more than just about sharing information and ideas. Social networking tools like Twitter, Facebook, Flickr and Blogs have facilitated creation and exchange of ideas so quickly and widely than the conventional media. This paper shows the choices, communication, feeling comfort, time saving and effects of social media among the people. ER -