Social Networking has become one of the easiest ways for people to communicate, share or receive information. Over the past years it has it has grown immensely and continues to grow as we speak this moment. As of January 2014, Pew Research Center discovered that 74% of online adults use social networking sites. In 2013, women were 74% users of social networking sites, compared with 62% of men. Most of all people in America who use social networks use them because of the advantages, like keeping up with the news, finding people with common interests, and keeping in touch with friends or family every day. Some users of social media don’t only focus on keeping up with friends or any of that, many people use social networking as a business tool.
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The top smartphones in the business today are your Iphones and Andorids. You see everybody carrying these around, you rarely see someone with a phone that isn’t touch screen or the ones where you have to flip it open to talk. Smartphones have given social networkers the ability to access their social networks from anywhere their phone signal is found. With this access people can see what is going on in the news, or what their friends are up to without standing up from your couch or bed. This also gives people the ability to share photos with friends or family. For example, Facebook is one of the largest social networks in the industry. If you have family that lives in a different city, state, or country. You can share photos with them through Facebook and you won’t wonder all the time what they are doing. Social networks on smartphones also gives the ability to find restaurants near you, plan a reunion with your friends or family or even have a face to face live conversation with someone, like for example Skype. Social Networking also lets people share their interests, which gives them the opportunity to connect with other people who share the common interest as …show more content…
For example, people who have in interest in charity and loves helping others probably heard of and maybe even attended the even called Twestival. On February 12, 2009, 202 cities around the world held this event bringing the Twitter world together for a night of fun to raise money for charity. The “Twestival” raised over $250,000 which was able to provide 17,000 people with clean water. This all started just by the power of a tweet to spread the news. Not only did the people who received the water was happy, the whole large crowd of people who helped out enjoyed it because it was something they loved
The top smartphones in the business today are your Iphones and Andorids. You see everybody carrying these around, you rarely see someone with a phone that isn’t touch screen or the ones where you have to flip it open to talk. Smartphones have given social networkers the ability to access their social networks from anywhere their phone signal is found. With this access people can see what is going on in the news, or what their friends are up to without standing up from your couch or bed. This also gives people the ability to share photos with friends or family. For example, Facebook is one of the largest social networks in the industry. If you have family that lives in a different city, state, or country. You can share photos with them through Facebook and you won’t wonder all the time what they are doing. Social networks on smartphones also gives the ability to find restaurants near you, plan a reunion with your friends or family or even have a face to face live conversation with someone, like for example Skype. Social Networking also lets people share their interests, which gives them the opportunity to connect with other people who share the common interest as …show more content…
For example, people who have in interest in charity and loves helping others probably heard of and maybe even attended the even called Twestival. On February 12, 2009, 202 cities around the world held this event bringing the Twitter world together for a night of fun to raise money for charity. The “Twestival” raised over $250,000 which was able to provide 17,000 people with clean water. This all started just by the power of a tweet to spread the news. Not only did the people who received the water was happy, the whole large crowd of people who helped out enjoyed it because it was something they loved