BUSINESS COMMUNICATION 2 UQB 3023

Social Networking Sites - A New Addiction?

Fahmiey Bin Abdullah Mohd Afiff Bin Ahmad Mohd Shahrieyzard Bin Che Husin KB1010478 YM0970794 KB1010474

Definition Of Social Network

A network of social interactions and personal relationship A dedicated website or other application which enables users to communicate with each other by posting information, comments, messages, images, etc.

History Of Social Network

Statistic Of Social Network

share 415 pieces of content on Facebook, about 23 minutes a day on Twitter, 15,795 tweets 563 times on Foursquare, upload 196 hours of video on YouTube, countless emails increasing from 36% of global Internet users to 59% by the end of 2011

updating a microblog (e.g. Twitter), which increased from 13% to 24%, uploading video which increased from 21% to 27%. Monthly forum contribution declined significantly from 38% to 32%, while blogwriting stagnated at 27%. There are now over 2.8 billion social media profiles.

Facebook Statistics 2012

Over one billion Facebook posts per day A new study from Edgerank checker suggests that the average lifetime for a Facebook page post is only three hours Facebook has 845 million active users There are 2.7 billion likes/comments per day Facebook has reached 100 billion friendships There are 250 million photos uploaded each day

Twitter Statistics 2012

over 465 million Twitter accounts growing at a rate of 11 accounts per second twitter sees about 175 million tweets The US has 107.7 million Twitter accounts, 33.3 million (Brazil) and 29.9 million (Japan). This means that the US represents 28.1 percent of all Twitter users. The Netherlands is the most active country on Twitter 33% of accounts located in the Netherlands posted at least one publicly visible tweet between September 1 2011 and November 30 2011 Japan was second with 30%, Spain third with 29% and the US made a four-way tie with Indonesia, Cenezuela and Canada at 28%. The global average of accounts that are active (or those that have tweeted at least once in three months) is only 27% which would indicate that less than a third of Twitters total accounts actually actively use the service 30% of twitter users have an income over $100,000