Going Green with Social Media

Going Green or being eco-friendly is a very hot and trendy topic not only in social media but everywhere.  Everyone is thinking about what they can do to be more green and to help the environment. So how are people using social media to "go green"?

The most popular way is via blogging. There are thosands and maybe even millions of blogs which talk about and support the ideas of recycling, going green and being eco-friendly. These blogs offer advice for everyone from parents raising young children, to teenagers, to adults, to businesses to the elderly on how they too can go green.

However, in the past few years with the emergence of other forms of social media, primarily with social networking sites, going green with social media has expanded beyond the blogosphere.

On Twitter, @goinggreengone, @greendecor and @thinkenergy are only three of hundreds of tweeple who are using the medium of Twitter to spread the message of going green. While many of them also have blogs, Twitter has become their main source of traffic as well as their main tool for encouraging others to go green as well as asking questions and finding new ideas of how everyone can become more eco-friendly.

On Facebook, new fan pages and groups for various go green and eco-friendly companies, products and topics and popping up daily. These pages and groups serve as a medium for their fans and members to discuss what's new in the green world all while learning about new products they can use as replacements to their current ones in order to become more green and to help save and nurture the environment.

On Squdioo there are nearly a thousand lenses all designed to educate and inform their audience about various aspects of going green. For example:

Green Babies- offers information all about how to raise a green baby.

Eco-Friendly-Baby-Products takes the first one a bit further by sharing products you can use to raise a green baby.

WhatDoesGoingGreenMean offers the novice a look at what it actually means to go green.

Eco-Green-Gifts offers anyone who cares information about eco friendly and green gifts they can give.

In short, going green and being eco-friendly are trendy topics and we can certainly expect them to continue to be hot in social media and if you are interested in going green or in teaching others how to do it, then social media is a great tool for you to use.

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