Table of Contents
1. What is Social Media
2. Importance of Social Media
- Discovering of New Ideas and Trends
- Attraction of New Clients to your Business
- Data Collection
- Job Hunting
- Source of earning
3. Categories of Social Networks in their Statistical Order.
There was a time social media platforms was mostly for fun but not any more because it has made a lot of people unimaginable giants in financial life and also help to inculcate some level of moral to a lot of people. In a world of today, you barely see a person without a social media account. Statistics proof that 94.6% of humans have social media account globally and most people have made social media their comfort abode because of it’s importance to their human growth.
What is Social Media?
Social media is a computer technology that allows the sharing of ideas and informations in form of both texts and visuals through virtual networks and communities. It is a media of community that facilitates disinformation and hate speech. Examples: Facebook, Instagram, X platform (formally Twitter), YouTube etc.
Importance of Social Media.
The importance of social media to humanity at large cannot be overemphasized and they are as follows:
Discovering of New Ideas and Trends :
Because of the wide and extensive connectivity of social media to the earth, it enhances learning and creates high level of knowledge to humanity. Imagine 94.6% of humans in a globe are on social media, thereby sharing informations and ideas to each other and making distance not to be a barrier for knowledge of different trends to humanity.
Attraction of New Clients to your Business:
The versartility of social media is so high even to a point of connecting with new clients to your business online regardless of the location. It is the fastest means of campaigning your products or brands to the world which will draw more customers to your business (traffic driving).
Data Collection:
Social Media will give you the knowledge of the data of your active customers which will enable to evaluate and know whether you are growing in your business and it also enables the department of homeland security to vital informations about their potential immigrants for evaluation purposes.
Job Hunting:
Job hunting is now so easy unlike before because of social media. Someone can now be at the comfort of his home and get a job with his phone through the help me LinkedIn and search for job opportunities and positions in different companies websites.
Source of Earning:
Most of social media when intentionally apply some skills will earn you very huge amount of money such as: Facebook, TikTok, Pinterest, X platform (formally Twitter) etc.
Most Widely Used Social Media in their Statistical Order of the Year 2023:
- Facebook (2.96 billion users)
- YouTube (2.51 billion users)
- WhatsApp (2 billion users)
- Instagram (2 billion users)
- WeChat (1.31 billion users)
- TikTok (1.05 billion users)
- Facebook messenger (931 million user)
- Donying (715 million user)
- Telegram (700 million user)
- Snapchat (635 million user)
Conclusion
Social Media stated to keep on touch with family and friends but businesses saw it a way to reach customers and explore, and it let you to connect and share informations with anyone on earth.