With smartphones in almost everyones hands it’s made the accessibility of Facebook and other social media sites at the tip of everyones fingers. Almost 50% of people with cell phone will use a social media site at any point during the day. Younger adults, minorities, college educated and people with a high income are found to be more actively using their phones for social media than others. (Smith & Zickuhr, 2012). Young adults are in tune with their reputation online and are continuously adding to the content and managing their profiles. In a research done, adolescents acknowledged that Facebook was a part of their social life and daily communications. These young adults answered to questions saying their profiles on Facebook or other sites play a huge role in a teenagers social standing. To be more specific, people are socially ranking by the number of comments or likes a status or picture gets. With this being so important to their reputation users on Facebook will make it a priority to showcase what they think others what to see or hear. When one doesn’t reach the attention they’d hoped for it’s likely the user will take down the photo or edit the status. (Duggan & Smith,
With smartphones in almost everyones hands it’s made the accessibility of Facebook and other social media sites at the tip of everyones fingers. Almost 50% of people with cell phone will use a social media site at any point during the day. Younger adults, minorities, college educated and people with a high income are found to be more actively using their phones for social media than others. (Smith & Zickuhr, 2012). Young adults are in tune with their reputation online and are continuously adding to the content and managing their profiles. In a research done, adolescents acknowledged that Facebook was a part of their social life and daily communications. These young adults answered to questions saying their profiles on Facebook or other sites play a huge role in a teenagers social standing. To be more specific, people are socially ranking by the number of comments or likes a status or picture gets. With this being so important to their reputation users on Facebook will make it a priority to showcase what they think others what to see or hear. When one doesn’t reach the attention they’d hoped for it’s likely the user will take down the photo or edit the status. (Duggan & Smith,