This document summarizes key details about social networks and their users. It finds that the youngest users aged 16-25 are most likely to follow famous people on social media and be influenced by YouTube. It also identifies a group of "MediaAddicts" as 10% of users, mostly men aged 26-35, who intensively use multiple platforms like Facebook, Twitter, and Skype. The document then provides brief overviews of some of the most important social networks - Twitter, which allows sharing of 140-character messages and following others; Facebook, which enables sharing photos and events with connections; Instagram, which launched in 2010 and allows sharing photos on other networks; and YouTube, the video-sharing platform acquired by Google in 2006
2. Network: A huge set of computers all over the world and comunicated
between them.
Social Network A social estructure made by people or entities which are
connected between them.
8. TrendFollowers
● 19% of the users
● The youngest users (16-25 years)
● High activity in the internet
● Linked with Youtube
● Famous people (this are the users that have the most number of followers)
MediaAddicts
● 10% of the users
● Mostly men(26-35 years)
● Intensive usage of different platforms (Skype, Facebook, Twitter…)
● This are the people that is addicted to the social networks.
10. TWITTER
• Twitter is a free“microblogging” platform that let you write and read messages in the
Internet (called tweets). This messages can’t exceed the number of 140 letters. This platform
let you follow people to see their messages and have followers that can see your messages or
your pictures too.
• Twitter was created in 2006, by four guys called Jack Dorsey, Biz Stone, Evan Williams &
Noah Glass from the company Podcasts Odeo, in San Francisco, United Sates.
• Nowadays, Twitter is the second most popular social network in the world.
11. FACEBOOK
Facebook is a social networking website created by Mark Zuckerberg
and Eduardo Saverin.
Facebook is a free service that allows to connect people over the
Internet. In facebook, we can manage our own personal space: create
photo albums, share videos, write notes, create events, etc. The large
number of users, the acceptance that had when it was released, and
accessibility facilities offered, such as access to the platform for mobile
terminals, has made Facebook the most used social network worldwide.
12. INSTAGRAM
• Instagram is a social network that allow users to post their photos and to share with their
followers. This social network allows you to post photos in another social networks like
Facebook or Twitter.
• Instagram was created by Kevin Systrom and Krieger Mike in San Francisco, United States.
The app was available to download in the App Store in 2010.
• Nowadays, Instagram is one of the most important social networks.
13. YOUTUBE
YouTube is a video-sharing website created in San Bruno, California,
United States. The service was created by three PayPal employees:
Chad Hurley, Steve Chen and Jawed Karim in February 2005. In
November 2006, it was bought by Google for US$1.65 billion.
It allows users to upload and watch videos, free and with unlimited
storage.