Types of Collaborative Classification Involved in Social Media

The thumbs-up emoji has revolutionized the virtual world by empowering people to state their opinions on whether they like or dislike a video, image, idea, text, or any other means of online sources. With access to the internet, lives all over the world have become more digitized due to people spending more time on online pages. Facebook is one famous example which connects people from different societies and keeps them in touch by providing them with the ability to observe what goes on in friends and family lives as well as sharing their opinion online. Facebook along with many other social media sites has significantly industrialized society and has incorporates collaborative classification by providing the user the systematic ability to organize what goes on in their life through organizing pictures, videos, and comments. As a result of this process, people themselves are classified according to their online activity thus digitizing their lives. 

Collaborative classification has united society by bringing enabling people all over the world to work together on the internet to complete tasks or share research. Google Hangouts is a tool of collaborative classification manipulated by users to communicate with other people. This tool can be used from anywhere to complete assignments, share presentations, or and can be used for a variety of other uses. Without collaborative classification, much entropy would exist within information on the internet.