The document summarizes various statistics and trends regarding major social media networks from 2008 to 2012: - In January 2008, MySpace maintained its position as the largest social network in North America, while Facebook had the highest growth rate and was predicted to equal MySpace's user numbers by the end of 2008. - By January 2009, Facebook had nearly twice as many users as MySpace worldwide. - An infographic from October 2011 showed trends in sharing content across social networks from data by content sharing platform AddThis. - Another infographic from November 2012 provided more recent statistics on the sizes and growth rates of social networks like Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and Pinterest. The document concludes by providing

1. REVIEW: MANAGING
RISKS AND
ARCHIVING

2. Last week ……

3. Tonight ……

4. January 2008
• “MySpace the largest Social Network in North America
maintains a dominant position as media site”
• “The hot talked company Facebook has the highest
growth rate … we predict it to achieve the same number
of registered users as MySpace in Q4 of 2008 …. Please
don’t call this the MySpace killer ….”
• http://www.web-strategist.com/blog/2008/01/09/social-network-stats-facebook-myspace-reunion-jan-2008/ last accesed: 9.2.13

5. January 2009
http://techcrunch.com/2009/01/22/facebook-now-nearly-twice-the-size-of-myspace-worldwide/ last accessed 9.2.13

6. Oct 2011
http://www.digitalbuzzblog.com/i
nfographic-addthis-sharing-
trends/#comments last
accessed: 9.2.13

7. 2012
http://wallblog.co.uk/2012/11/05/social-
media-statistics-2012-from-facebook-
and-twitter-to-instagram-and-pinterest-
infographic/ last accessed 9.2.13

9. Choices choices

10. Next …….

11. Future proof …
Data
explore management
trust
Digital
Online citizenship Staying
identity safe

12. activity

13. Thinking hats
Analyse, plan, manage.

14. Feedback
• Analyse, plan and manage risks for using collaborative
technologies for different tasks:
• Explain what and why guidelines are needed (week 7)
• Plan and deliver a session where you present these guidelines
(week 12)

15. Assessment Tasks

16. Activity
• Review the guidelines to help you maintain your digital
portfolio (p. 11 in the handbook)
• Consider what you need to do to complete the week 7 + 8
tasks
• Review the helpful hints
• Any questions for peers or Cathy
• Review the assessment timetable