What is Social Media ?

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2. What is Social Media??
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3. Social Media

4. What is Social Media and how can you
use it to enhance student support?
• Social Media provides context, pictures, words,
shared meaning
• Facebook, YouTube ( some examples –education
programme information, housing, orientation,
announcements)

5. Why is Social Media important?
• If your kids are awake they are probably online
• The average young American now spends every waking
minute – except the time in school – using a smart
phone, computer, TV or other electronic device
according to a new study from the Kaiser Family
Foundation. Those ages 8 – 18 spend more than 7
hours a day with such devices. And that does not count
the hour and a half that youths spend texting or talking
on their phones

6. The Asian Market

7. Peer Endorsement
• The vast majority of people report the opinion they
trust most is from ‘someone like me’. For the first time
in our history, peers have bested the wisdom of experts
• Peer endorsement is the single greatest decision-making
accelerant. Through Social Media, peer
influence cycles are happening at a velocity never
before seen. Decision making is clearly becoming more
social

8. Social Networking
• Social Networking is the use of communities to
engage with others: Facebook, MySpace, LinkedIn,
Twitter. Social Networking sites often include social
media tools to facilitate the interaction and
conversation

9. Social Networking
Friendship
•Keeping in
Touch
•Developing
new
relationships
Sharing
•Photos
• Links
• Interests
Community
•Causes
• Beliefs
•Advocacy

10. How popular are Social Networks?
• According to the analysts at Hitwise, social networks in
general are more popular than search engines in some
parts of the world
• Facebook’s overall web traffic pulled ahead of Google’s
for the first time in the U.S. in March of this year.
• Facebook dominates the current crop of social
networks, accounting for the majority (55%) of all social
site visits. When compared to the wider web, Google
gets around 9.3% of all web traffic, while Facebook
captures just over 7%