What are social connections?
Any online space where people can interact with one another is considered part of the social web. Social media tools are easy-to-use platforms that allow people to connect online.

Twitter is a micro-blogging platform that you can use to send messages of 140 characters or less to family, friends, or just the general Web community at large. You can also choose to follow other Twitter community members' posts.

The Joplin Globe has four twitter micro-blogs that you can access.

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Facebook is a great way to meet friends and keep up on what they are doing. Once you add a friend to your Facebook friend list you will always know when they are adding things to their blog or updating their profile.Fan the Joplin Globe to keep up with area news, lifestyles and opinion.

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YouTube is a video sharing website on which users upload and share videos.

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A blog (a contraction of the term weblog) is a type of website, usually maintained by an individual with regular entries of editorial commentary.

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Community Conversations is a weekly public service radio show produced by the Joplin Globe and broadcast on stations operated by American Media Investments in Joplin. Community Conversations airs Saturday mornings at 6:30 and 7:30. on KQYX 1450-AM. On Sunday mornings catch the show at 5 on KMOQ 105.3-AM and KBTN 99.7-FM and on KCAR 104.3 at 6 a.m.

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