This PowerPoint explains the major types of social networking and the use of them by the people on a statistical and scientific base of information.

1. SOCIAL MEDIA
 Awny Ghazi
 Dilzar Zubeir
 Mohammed Jab
 Zeena Ayoub
 Bilind Abdulwah

2. Contents
What is Social Media?
The history of Social Media.
Today’s Social Media
Advantages of Social Media
Disadvantages of Social Media.
The future of Social Media.

3. What is Social Media?
Social Media: refers to online tools and services which
allow an exchange of ideas, information, videos, pictures,
and graphics.
It also allows easy sharing and distribution of existing
content to others so that professional work can be shared
through networks.

4. Components of Social Media:
Social Network.
User Generated Content (UGC).
Social Bookmarking.

5. Social Networking
Online communities of people who share
interests and activities.
Examples: Facebook, MySpace, LinkedIn, Orkut.

6. User Generated Content (UGC)
Or Consumer Generated Media (CGM).
Defined: Media content that is publicly available
and produced by end-user(s).
Usually supported by a social network.
Examples: Blogs, YouTube, Facebook, Second Life.

7. Social Bookmarking
A method for Internet users to store, organize, search,
and manage bookmarks of web pages on the Internet
with the help of metadata.
Examples: Digg, Del.icio.us.

9. History of Social Media
1971
1979
1984 1988 1991
1995
1998-2004
IRCEmail Usenet Listserv Personal
websites,
Discussion
groups,
chat
Social
Networking
site
classmate.
com
Blogs,
Podcast,
Wikis

11. Today’s Social Media

12. Over 75% of all Internet users use social
media.
77%
63%
25% 24%
21%
0%
10%
20%
30%
40%
50%
60%
70%
80%
90%
Facebook Youtube LinkedIn Google plus Twtter
Usage of social Media
Facebook
Youtube
LinkedIn
Google plus
Twtter

13. Instagram as the fastest growing
social networks of 2015 and..
 Estimated to break 100 million by 2018.
 1/3 people in U.S.
 Over 77 million Instagram users in the U.S.
alone(according to eMarketer).

14. LinkedIn is the most important social network for
professionals.
400 million users
39 million are students and recent college graduates.

15. Most social networks are evenly split
between males and females…
77%
29%
21%
27%
66%
22% 24%
28%
0%
20%
40%
60%
80%
100%
Facebook Instagram Twitter LinkedIn
S.M usage
Male Female

17. Advantages & Disadvantages
You can try to be anyone.
Stay in touch with your friends.
Saves your time (shortens
distance).
Meet new people.
Find old friends.
Aware of what’s happening
around the world.
Finding a job.
Create new channels to learn.
Anyone can try to be you.
Takes you away from your family.
Waste your time when it’s
overused.
A home to terroristic groups.
Privacy issues.
Unaware of what’s happening in
the “real” world!
Potential for misuse.
Security issues.

18. Result..
Social Media is good thing if used carefully.

19. FUTURE OF SOCIAL MEDIA..