How Social Media Shapes People’s LivesSocial media walks into our lives silently when we pick up our smart phones to chat in Facebook, to watch videos in YouTube and to check the latest news on CNN, Yahoo! or Google News…. From the scenes depict above, we can notice that social media develops rapidly and reshapes our lives in many ways in recent years. Here are some areas that social media shapes people’s lives.
First, social media shapes people’s ways to meet and communicate with other people. Without the development of social media, people often use SMS, telephone or talk face to face in order to reach each other. Nowadays, more people choose social media like Facebook or Twitter as a more convenient way to maintain relationships. Almost everyone around us has a social network account. They post their recent, read others recent or do some short chats with each other in social network at anytime. According to data from eMarketer which is a market research company, “nearly one in four people worldwide will use social networks in 2013. The number of social network users around the world will rise from 1.47 billion in 2012 to 1.73 billion this year, an 18% increase. By 2017, the global social network audience will total 2.55 billion.” (EMarketer 2013) Such huge data did prove that social media shape people’s custom to keep in touch with others.
In 2008, Srikanth Narayan of the BHG’s International Networking Research Center and colleagues at BHG analysed and compared social network activity across the globe, a method that they call «social data gathering». They calculated the share of human conversations and the activity of each person on social networks, based on five criteria. They used these five criteria to determine what activity is typical of each demographic. Using data from a global cross-country group of 1940s, an average of 50 million people, all shared information in common, received a share of 18.25 minutes on the social networks using each of the five data sets.
The second four variables of social data gathering were the time period at which, using the data from the five social networks, social conversation about the same topic was most common. The second four variables of social data gathering were the time period at which, using the data from the five social networks, social conversation about the same topic was most common.
Social networks are like a mirror. They may be located on a computer, but they are connected through a network. According to the National Network Research Centre (NNRC) in Hyderabad, they are a place where there are hundreds of people who can share information securely, in a network where users send and receive messages and then share them with each other. With that shared information, social network participants have access to both information about the same topic (e.g., Facebook news feed and photos) as well as details of who they are on social networking sites (e.g., friends for whom group selfies or social networks posts are shared, and friends for whom messages or pictures are shared to other people from which their friends can see and share information). Facebook on Twitter and Whatsapp on the web are all able to share relevant information from their social networks with others. It is this shared information that determines their activity, and the social networking activity where the content of the content is shared.
Social media activity is a key factor in determining what is expected of users. According to the NNRC data, there were 6.25 million users on social network about which over a month in 2010, about 615 million of them (3% of worldwide users) used Facebook. (2) The figures were published in September 2009. The first number refers to all of the social network users that participated in the first three months of 2009 in all five countries where social network users shared information.
During 2011 and 2012, Facebook users on social networks were connected roughly by means of various social networking sites. Their social network share was shared by their friends and family, friends and family members, and other social networking sites from the five country. According to NNRC, of the total 1.85 billion daily connected people, one in four (9.35%) of Facebook users used the social networking sites. According to NNRC, Facebook users on social networks were connected about 17 million times a day by different social networking sites; one in 18 Facebook users used the sites and in 10 out of the 18 the sites shared information.
In 2012, Facebook users on social network were also connected about the number of daily users that spent online each day with a friend or family member over a four month period and the data which was shared between the three social networking sites. The data which was shared between the three social networking sites were analysed, and it was found that about one-in-twentieth of the Facebook users also share information from Facebook about their social network (data available at nnrc.org/social-network-data-sharing-per-day). The data showed that nearly 7%
In 2008, Srikanth Narayan of the BHG’s International Networking Research Center and colleagues at BHG analysed and compared social network activity across the globe, a method that they call «social data gathering». They calculated the share of human conversations and the activity of each person on social networks, based on five criteria. They used these five criteria to determine what activity is typical of each demographic. Using data from a global cross-country group of 1940s, an average of 50 million people, all shared information in common, received a share of 18.25 minutes on the social networks using each of the five data sets.
The second four variables of social data gathering were the time period at which, using the data from the five social networks, social conversation about the same topic was most common. The second four variables of social data gathering were the time period at which, using the data from the five social networks, social conversation about the same topic was most common.
Social networks are like a mirror. They may be located on a computer, but they are connected through a network. According to the National Network Research Centre (NNRC) in Hyderabad, they are a place where there are hundreds of people who can share information securely, in a network where users send and receive messages and then share them with each other. With that shared information, social network participants have access to both information about the same topic (e.g., Facebook news feed and photos) as well as details of who they are on social networking sites (e.g., friends for whom group selfies or social networks posts are shared, and friends for whom messages or pictures are shared to other people from which their friends can see and share information). Facebook on Twitter and Whatsapp on the web are all able to share relevant information from their social networks with others. It is this shared information that determines their activity, and the social networking activity where the content of the content is shared.
Social media activity is a key factor in determining what is expected of users. According to the NNRC data, there were 6.25 million users on social network about which over a month in 2010, about 615 million of them (3% of worldwide users) used Facebook. (2) The figures were published in September 2009. The first number refers to all of the social network users that participated in the first three months of 2009 in all five countries where social network users shared information.
During 2011 and 2012, Facebook users on social networks were connected roughly by means of various social networking sites. Their social network share was shared by their friends and family, friends and family members, and other social networking sites from the five country. According to NNRC, of the total 1.85 billion daily connected people, one in four (9.35%) of Facebook users used the social networking sites. According to NNRC, Facebook users on social networks were connected about 17 million times a day by different social networking sites; one in 18 Facebook users used the sites and in 10 out of the 18 the sites shared information.
In 2012, Facebook users on social network were also connected about the number of daily users that spent online each day with a friend or family member over a four month period and the data which was shared between the three social networking sites. The data which was shared between the three social networking sites were analysed, and it was found that about one-in-twentieth of the Facebook users also share information from Facebook about their social network (data available at nnrc.org/social-network-data-sharing-per-day). The data showed that nearly 7%
Second, social media shapes people’s ways to conduct business in the marketplace. In the past, many big companies just can use newspaper or TV advertisements to promote their products. Thanks to the social media, many big companies can spread their products promotion wider and wider using Facebook, Twitter or micro blog. An article in the New York Times mentioned, “Much has been made of how big companies like Dell, Starbucks and Comcast use Twitter to promote their products and answer customers’ questions.” (Miller 2009) Those small companies also can promote their brands and product, attract cooperators and recruit staffs using social media with limited amount of money. The New York Times article also mentioned, “For many mom-and-pop shops with no ad budget, Twitter has become their sole means of marketing.” (Miller 2009)
Third, social media shapes people’s ways to watch entertainment. People of course still can watch movies in movie theaters, buy music in music stores and watch TV