Social Media Essential Question: What is Social Media and how does it effect the world? By: Nicole Lindemeyer

What is Social Media? Social Media is media designed to create social interaction using highly accessible and professional publishing techniques Social Media was supposed to be mainly for college students to interact with each other from far places Now there are many age groups of people using social media

Current Statistics 3 out of 4 people use social media during most of there day 17% of all web usage is on social media sites 93% percent of social media users believe that companies should have there own social media pages

Social Media is mostly used for…. Customer service Product feedback Contests News

What do people think Social media is good Kids can connect with long distance friends Seniors can advance in technology and reconnect with friends Can be used to help promote businesses Social media is bad Kids aren’t as active as they were before social media People’s accounts can be stolen and used for bad things Social media can take over someone’s life

What do I think: If used properly social media is not so bad If social media is used all the time people will only interact with each other online and there will be no talking Social media can connect old friends In my perspective social media can be good or bad

Social Media Tips Don’t post pictures of friends without asking them or there parents Don’t tell your address Make a username that has nothing to do with personal information

Facebook Facebook is one of the most used social media sites ever Mostly ages use it but there are many other ages groups using it In 5-6 months Facebook had 1,000 users It took television and the radio 5-6 years to get that many users

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Some Social Media sites are….. Twitter Instagram Facebook Pintrest Youtube Skype FaceTime Google+

Book’s and web-sites I used ……. Books oToThe Internet for Dummies oJoJab, Jab, Jab Right Hook Web- sites owowww.publicity.com owowww.icrossing.com owowww.thehiringsite.careerbuliding.com owowww.Kodak.com oHoHONGKIAT.com