What Are Social Networking Sites?

A social networking site is an online platform that people use to build a social relationship with a particular group. Social networking platforms are important for an individual because people can stay in touch with each other or with people whom they might not otherwise be able to connect. Let’s say it also helps an individual to boost business productivity when used for public relations, marketing, and advertising purpose. There are around 1000 social networking sites in the world out of which “WIKIPEDIA” is used the most.

As of today, there are around 212 social networking platforms used in India. With this in mind let’s see a few facts on social media.

•   The first-ever social media introduced in India was in the year 1997 and its name was “6 Degrees”.

•   Some of the dangerous apps used by people are Instagram, Tinder, Snapchat, Omegle, Blender, etc…

•   Whatsapp is the most used social media in the world. Of 7.9 Billion of the population in the world, 1.9 Billion use Whatsapp, 1.5 billion use Messenger, 1.3 billion use Instagram and about 500 million use Tik Tok.

•   YouTube and Pinterest are considered as some of the safest social media apps in history.

•   Instagram which took birth in the year 2018 has one of the biggest fans around the world. In simple words, it has around 1000 users monthly.

•   3% of 13 - 19-year-old use Blue whale, Momo, and WhatsApp.

•   5% of 20 - 24-year-old use Instagram and Whatsapp.

•   8% of 25 - 30-year-old use Snapchat, Instagram, and Whatsapp.

•   7% of 31 - 49-year-old use LinkedIn, Facebook, and WhatsApp.

•   5% of 50 - 64-year-old use Facebook or Whatsapp.

•   70% of 64 years old onwards use only Whatsapp.

•   The Blue Whale or the Momo app is considered as the suicide app because of the rate of suicide which is currently happening through these apps. People kill themselves since they cannot take the pressure or complete specific corrupted tasks given by the app operators. This challenging app was first introduced in Russia but later got reported in Ukraine, India, and USA.

•   It has been noticed that most Facebook users don’t bother to check their Facebook account but they just change their profile picture from time to time.

•   It is said that by using too much social media a person may go into depression and have a few anxiety attacks

There goes a new saying.…

“ Telephone bought family together but phone divided them”. Sometimes social media does help us but not every time. Don’t ever believe what’s on social media because social media is not for winners only for losers who want fake attention. It’s just a random website where a person knows how to kill time.

Last but not the least, learn the good things available from social media and forget the useless things…

 

     Aiana…                                

                                                                              (source: Google)