Iwas asked to contribute an article about social mediaand medicine for this issue of the CRAJ. Though I have been involved with RheumInfo.com for the past 10 years, I pondered this request, unsure how RheumInfo.com fell into the world of social media. Thedefinition of social media refers to the means of interac-tions among people in which they create, sh are, andexchange information and ideas in virtual communitiesand networks. RheumInfo.com does not h ave a typical vir-tual community, like Facebook, or a network such asLinkedIn, but it does create an d share information , so itplays a role in social media
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