Entrepreneur Kids: All About Social Media: All About Social Media

By The Staff of Entrepreneur Media

Meet Entrepreneur Kids For over 30 years, the business experts at Entrepreneur have brought readers the best in small-business and startup content from finance and management to sales and marketing. Now it’s time to help lead a new generation. Entrepreneur Press is proud to present our new series: Entrepreneur Kids.
Today’s kids are tech-smart, media-savvy, and goal-oriented. They need books and content that will give them the tools they need to achieve their dreams. Whether they want to set up a lemonade stand, develop an app, or start a dog-walking business, Entrepreneur Kids have great ideas—and we’ll help them make it happen.
Starting with a quarterly rollout, the flagship Entrepreneur Kids series will focus on the elementary and middle-grade market and feature kid-friendly content about:

Money and financial literacy

Startup ideas for kid-friendly businesses

Success stories from young entrepreneurs

Origin stories of famous CEOs and moguls

Social media marketing

Funding and growing your business

Careers

Networking

Communication

Creativity
Business—not just for grownups.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Entrepreneur Press
• Release date: Oct 12, 2021
• ISBN: 9781613084557

The Staff of Entrepreneur Media

For more than four decades, Entrepreneur Media has been setting the course for small business success. From startup to retirement, millions of entrepreneurs and small business owners trust the Entrepreneur Media family; Entrepreneur magazine, Entrepreneur.com, Entrepreneur Press, and our industry partners to point them in the right direction. The Entrepreneur Media family is regarded as a beacon within the small to midsized business community, providing outstanding content, fresh opportunities, and innovative ways to push publishing, small business, and entrepreneurship forward. Entrepreneur Media, Inc. is based in Irvine, CA and New York City.

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Social media is the term used for the sharing of thoughts, information, and ideas on the internet through virtual communities. These virtual communities are also called platforms. There are different types of platforms for social media. There are:

■  Photo sharing sites like Instagram and Snapchat

■  Video sharing sites like TikTok and YouTube

■  Social sharing sites like Facebook

■  Blogging sites like Twitter

Many people use social media to connect with others for fun, but you can also use it for your business, to advertise events, and to buy and sell products.

Before you join any type of social media site, make sure you talk to your parents or guardians about it. Many social media sites have rules about how old you need to be to join. For some sites, you need to be 13. For others, you can join with a parent’s permission. Talking about social media with your parents or guardians is key—they will need to know which social media accounts you are using and what you are using them for. Read on for ways you can be a responsible and savvy social media user!

Social media is constantly changing. There are several different social media platforms that you can use today—some more popular than others. Doing a quick search on your phone or other device will give you lots of different social media apps. Often the ones you end up using are the ones that let you connect with your friends and family. You wouldn’t want to download a social media app that no one else you know is using, because then you’d have no one else to connect with!

Most social media apps allow you to share photos and short videos, but each app has a unique audience. So, what’s the difference? Let’s take a