Social media, the monster that we have created that has rapidly grown to a size where no one can stop it for good. Social media is defined as an instrument of social communication, or in other words content that is shared by users to other users using freely available websites.
The fact is that now it has gotten to this level we will always have these websites and programs around for longer than we can foresee. There will always be another face book site or a new youtube, we simply can’t stop it now. This wouldn’t be such a bad thing if we weren’t so reliant on our social media sites.
The obsessive need of Facebook and other social networking sites is completely out of control. It seems as though no one can live without it, it’s almost as if the internet went down tomorrow no one would know what to do. How would we know what events are happening or when people’s birthdays are? How would we talk to all of our friends?
There are a lot of obvious alternatives but they have become more of accessories and not fads, such as email mobile phones and in my opinion most of the appeal to facebook is just how many people are using it, if there weren’t over so many people that used facebook every week then it would lose a lot of its power. Facebook has admitted that there are over 5 million people joining facebook every week. Here are some of Facebook’s most recent statistics.
There are over 750 million active facebook users, 50 percent of these users use facebook every day. The average user has 130 friends and creates 90 pieces of content a month, that being either statuses, uploads or page creations. Facebook hasn’t just stopped at facebook either, on April 2010 social plug-ins launched and facebook took on an average of 10,000 websites a day adding the like button to their pages. Now more than 2.5 million websites have integrated with facebook and this number is