Social Networks Demo

Many of these digital organizations emphasize the importance of social media in storytelling and engaging their audiences.

How do social media sites stack up on news?

Facebook is the obvious news powerhouse among the social media sites. Roughly two-thirds (64%) of U.S. adults use the site, and half of those users get news there — amounting to 30% of the general population.

86% of Americans were willing to have an in-person conversation about the surveillance program, but just 42% of Facebook and Twitter users were willing to post about it on those platforms.

In both personal settings and online settings, people were more willing to share their views if they thought their audience agreed with them. Fo

social media did not provide new forums for those who might otherwise remain silent to express their opinions and debate issues.

Just 28% of Facebook news consumers have ever used Facebook to keep up with a news event as it unfolds, and, of those, less than half (41%) say Facebook is one of the first places they turn to keep up with such an event.

64%, say that they at least sometimes click on links to news stories. Still, just 16% do this often

he biggest single reason named for clicking on links about news stories is interest in the topic. Seven-in-ten (70%) of those who ever click on news stories say this is a major reason they do so; 45% cite the fact that they are already following the story in the news. Other popular reasons for clicking on news stories are that the story seemed funny or entertaining (51%) or surprising (50%).

Even sites such as digital native buzzfeed.com and National Public Radio’s npr.org, which have an unusually high level of Facebook traffic, saw much greater engagement from those who came in directly.

Of the sites examined, the percentage of direct visitors who also came to the site via Facebook was extremely small, ranging from 0.9% to 2.3%, with the exception of Buzzfeed at 11.3%

Facebook and search are critical for bringing added eyeballs to individual stories, and they do so in droves.

roughly two-thirds (64%) of U.S. adults use the site, and half of those users get news there—amounting to 30% of the general population. YouTube has the next greatest reach in terms of general usage, at 51% of U.S. adults. Thus, even though only a fifth of its users get news there, that amounts to 10% of the adult population, which puts it on par with Twitter. Twitter reaches just 16% of U.S. adults, but half (8% of U.S. adults) use it for news. reddit is a news destination for nearly two-thirds of its users (62%). But since just 3% of the U.S. population uses reddit, that translates to 2% of the population that gets news there.

LinkedIn news consumers stand out from other groups as more likely to be high earners and college educated.

A look at the five social networking sites with the biggest news audiences shows that a majority of news consumers on those sites (65%) get news from just one, and for 85% of those, it is Facebook.

78% of Facebook news users mostly see news when on Facebook for other reasons.

Just 34% of Facebook news consumers “like” a news organization or individual journalist, which suggests that the news they see there is coming from friends

Not only are social network users sharing news stories, but, particularly with the growth in mobile devices, a certain portion is contributing to the reporting by taking photos or videos.

as the number of devices a person owns increases, they are more likely to report that they enjoy keeping up with the news and are more likely to say that it’s easier to keep up with the news today than it was five years ago.

People continue to discover news through traditional word-of- mouth (65 percent) either in person or over the phone, and do so at higher rates than more modern methods of sharing like email, text message, or other ways online (46 percent), or social media (44 percent). And roughly half of Americans said they got news in the last week from search engines and online news aggregators (51 percent for each).

they are discriminating in how much trust they have in the information they get from each method.

The internet is a largely free service, and sharing personal data is the price we pay. Others a

re not happy with this situation, claiming that the use of information with consent is a violation of privacy.

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Six structures are regularly observed: divided, unified, fragmented, clustered, and inward and outward hub and spoke structures.

Tight Crowd:

highly interconnected people with few isolated participants.

One option Facebook is exploring is enhancing ad sales by more effective targeting of increasingly specific demographic groups, using location data from mobile devices and information culled from the site.

Facebook has a lot of information about us, both what we enter ourselves and the data that our friends choose to put up about us.

In a report prepared for Germany’s Constitutional Court in July 2009 , the hacker group described what kind of information could in theory be collected according to the country’s data retention (Vorratsdatenspeicherung) rules and what could be gleaned from it.

Most people’s understanding of what can actually be done with the data provided by our mobile phones is theoretical; there were few real-world examples. That is why Malte Spitz from the German Green party decided to publish his own data collected from August 2009 to February 2010.

Seen individually, the pieces of data are mostly inconsequential and harmless. But taken together, they provide what investigators call a profile – a clear picture of a person’s habits and preferences, and indeed, of his or her life.

Most of the big social networks such as Facebook, Google+, Instagram and Twitter continue to gain users, but the growth rate has become sluggish of late, raising the question of whether social media has reached saturation point.

While Facebook remains the most populous social media platform with  the largest concentration of consumers in one space, its largest demographic comprises 25-34-year-olds (26% of users).

46% of online seniors use social networking sites, but just 6% use Twitter

46% use social networking sites such as Facebook

27% of all Americans ages 65 and older, are social networking site users.

deals with brands to do content integrations on celebrity websites

part of our role for our clients this year has been to educate them about YouTube. Beyond the premium, million-dollar deals that YouTube made available to some publishers recently, which we were a part of.

Our clients are people that people want to see. So we've been starting to make YouTube a real part of their strategies because one, yes, you're a celebrity and people want to see and hear you. Especially if they miss your show or you're on hiatus and they haven't seen you in a while, they want to see you. Combined with the fact that YouTube already has a system in place that says you do that and we're going to share revenue with you.