Painting Social Media for Students

Painting The Picture of Social Media for Beginners

By: Craig Ross

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Social Media is an umbrella term that defines the various activities that integrate technology, social interaction, and the construction of words, pictures, videos and audios. At its most basic sense, social media is a shift in how people discover, read and share news, information and content.

What is Social Network?

A social network service focuses on building a reflecting social network or social relationship among people

Facebook Network

More than 400 million active users

More than 35 million users update their status each day

Average user has 130 friends on the site

There are more than 100 million active users currently accessing Facebook through their mobile devices.

Twitter Network

6 million registered Twitter users, which equates to around 3.8 percent of people on the Internet.

Ashton Kutcher Alicia Keys

50 Cent Bow Wow

Janet Jackson

registered the YouTube domain on February 14, 2005

70,000,000 total videos on YouTube (March 2008)

412 years in time it would take to view all content on YouTube

Flickr now hosts more than 4bn images. A massive jump from the previous 3.6bn

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