Uses of social media

Social media isn't just used for contacting or messaging friends it is used for a lot of other things besides that. You use social media for other things that you may not notice, you may see a cool product that you might like to buy, on the small column at the edge of your news feed or you may see a really cool business which someone shared there page on Facebook. businesses make pages that advertise their products to people to help them get moving in the business world. It is basically how the richest become rich your business will not get anywhere far without the use of social media. its quick and easy to use and it wont cause you any stress of sending around leaflets to places. another thing is it is also a way of easy contact from customers to the business. everybody now has some way of getting to use the internet. the pie chart below shows the amount of businesses think their organisation is better and the ones that don't.
  

Nowadays most businesses have some sort of promotion on the internet or have a page on social media. Also a lot of celebrities use social media  to update their fans on their latest gossip, and their life in general, people may want to catch up on the latest sports players and how they are getting on.

The geography of social media

Social media is more popular in certain countries than others. In the first world countries social media is more popular than in the third world countries, this is mainly because the rich countries are more developed and further ahead technology wise. The countries which have a higher use of social media than the average are Russia, United States of America and Britain with Britain highest percentage of users in the whole world. Countries with a very low percentage of users of social media would be poorer countries like Uganda, South Africa and Asia

 Have you ever wondered how messages, statuses or tweets are sent within seconds to the other side of the world, well instant messaging over social media is controlled by a LAN which stands for a local area network? This allows people to get messages to their friends with two seconds.

Facebook

Facebook was launched in February 2004 by Mark Zuckerberg and his roommates while he was in university. Mark Zuckerberg aged thirty one now, is on the track to being one of the world’s richest people. He has been working with computers since he was as young as twelve years of age when he set up a messaging program known as Zucknet for his dad in his dad’s dental office.

It is the most successful social media website at the moment with about 1.4 billion users all around the world today.  It is estimated that about 42% of these users are male while the remaining 58% are female. Since smart phones have come into use this had a huge impact on the use of Facebook. Now the average Facebook user would spend up to forty minutes a day using Facebook on their smartphones. It is used for many different things such as, checking in on the latest celebrities, updating you status or checking out what your friends are up and it can also be used to contact friends all around the world.

Facebook is a hugely successful website and is the largest social media website in the world and was valued in 2012 of worth over one hundred billion dollars. Although Facebook is a very good site, it can cause a lot of problems, such as bullying, a survey was done and it showed that 66% of teenage girls that use Facebook have claimed of being bullied or harassed online on Facebook.

 

Dangers of social media

Many problems can be caused by the uses of social media although it creates enjoyment and fun. People can be quite careless when it comes to using social media and can put very personal information public so everyone around the world can see it. If you post something online it will be there forever even if you delete it, it will never be truly deleted it will always be there.

The main problem on social media is cyberbullying, and is most common in teenagers. Teenagers think it is way easier to say things to people behind a screen than to their face so teenagers are more likely to get bullied online than in any other places.

Another problem would be your identity can be stolen, if you release personal information to the public people have ways to find out your bank details, your address,  phone number and a number of other things. Someone could even commit crimes in your name and it would be on your criminal record when it wasn’t you but it was you who put your information publicly online. To prevent this from happening you should put your accounts on private so everyone other than friends can see your personal information.

Statistics on social media

Lots of people all around the world today use social media sites such as Facebook, YouTube, snapchat, Instagram, twitter daily to check out the latest news on the hottest celebrities, contact and chat with friends, update their statuses, put up a tweet on twitter or post a picture on Instagram.

The use of mobile phones has increased significantly in the past few years which has made a huge effect on the use of social media and the internet. It is estimated that 47% of internet users have Facebook with 1.4 billion users and it is estimated that 23% of these log onto Facebook at least five times per day. This just shows how big Facebook is everywhere. Twitter has 284 million active users with approximately 500 million tweets daily. As we can see from these statistics we can conclude that Facebook is by far the most popular social media website in the world.  In total it is said that 74% of women that use the internet, use at least one social media site this is compared to 62% of men. This is a very high amount and as time goes on these percentages seem to be getting higher and higher. Already a lot of people now have smartphones so they can enter their social media sites in very few taps.

Introduction

Hey my name is Laura and my blog is about
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