Social MediaHow Often Youth Used

Abstract

Social Media

• Attracting much attention from researchers worldwide

• Both positive and Negative effect• It is a known fact that young adults and teenagers

are the most avid users of such sites.• it has been found that these OSN sites are having a

great impact on the lives of young people.

Introduction

• Social media refers to interaction among people in which they create, share, and exchange information and ideas in virtual communities and networks

• Andreas Kaplan and Michael Haenlein (specialized in social media and viral marketing ) define social media as "a group of Internet-based applications that build on the ideological and technological foundations of Web 2.0 and that allow the creation and exchange of user-generated content.

Types of Social media utilized by Youth

• Facebook

• YouTube

• Twitter

• Google+

• LinkedIn

• Yahoo Answers

• Instagram

• My space

• Flickr

• Pinterest

• Tumblr

• Skype

• Reddit

The social media sites view by US teen (13-19) in per day

Facebook YouTube Google+ Twitter Instagram Tumblr Flickr Skype0

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What Teens do online?

• Use online social networking sites like MySpace or Facebook-80%

• Go online to get information or news about current events or politics-62%

• Buy things online like books, clothes or music. eg, Amazon, ebay, bestbuy so on-48%

• Share something that you created yourself , such as artwork , photos , videos or stories-38%

• Have a video chat conversation with other person through application like Skype, Viber or Google talk-37%

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• Looking online for health, dieting and physical fitness information-31%

• Record and upload video-27%

• Take material you find online like text, images and songs and remix it in your own artistic creation-21%

• Create or work on own journal or blog-15%

• Stream video live to the internet for other people to watch-13%

• Look for information online about a health topic that’s hard to talk about, like drug use, sexual health, or depression-17%

Typical mobile activities while watching TV

Using mobile apps -33%

Browsing the internet(non-related content) -37%

Social Networking- 40%

Texting with friends and family-56%

Advantage/Disadvantage of social media

• Bringing people together

• Breadth of knowledge

• Technological literacy

• Opportunity to widen business

• Attracts attention

Advantages

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• Understanding on how it works

• Commits illegal crime

• Negative effects on worker productivity

• Distraction

• Serious detrimental outcomes on individual’s health

• Among youth who report internet harassment victimization and unwanted sexual encounters (sexting), 25% report extreme upset.

Disadvantages

Conclusion

• Overall, from the research we found that social media have very negative impacts on youth, they enjoy in their virtual world (Social media sites)

• lack of seriousness and less interact with society

• less problem solving skills and they hesitate to make eye contact while talking

• less confidence and less concern about surroundings are the major factors .

THANK YOUPresentation By: Bijay Bhandari

Web: www.bijaybhandari.com.np