Communication in the Real World SOCIAL MEDIA’S AFFECT ON SOCIETY
TYPES OF SOCIAL MEDIA Facebook Twitter MySpace Instagram Snap Chat Youtube LinkedIn Google + Pinterest LiveJournal
COMMON USES OF SOCIAL MEDIA Communication between Friends/Family (sometimes long distance) Advertising Current Events Classroom Activities Job Interviews Entertainment Can anyone think of others?
SOCIAL MEDIA’S INFLUENCE ON THE WORLD Facebook: Almost 850 million monthly active users One in every nine people on Earth is on Facebook at any given time 20% of all page views on the web are on Facebook 250 million photos uploaded each day 2.7 billion “likes” per day 50.3% of North Americans have a Facebook account Each Facebook user spend an average of 15 hours and 33 minutes a month on the site Twitter Over 465 million accounts 175 million tweets a day 1 million accounts added to Twitter every day USA has 107 million users
SOCIAL MEDIA GROWTH
SOCIAL MEDIA IN THE WORKPLACE Sometimes encouraged for networking (especially linkedin) Encouraged to communicate between co-workers Used to evaluate potential clients during job interviews
EXAMPLE OF PROFESSIONAL SOCIAL MEDIA
EXAMPLE OF UNPROFESSIONAL SOCIAL MEDIA
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IS SOCIAL MEDIA BAD?
WHAT DO YOU THINK?