Social media has both benefits and drawbacks for users. It allows people to stay connected with friends and family, share news and information, and engage with communities online. However, heavy social media use can also isolate users and damage real-world social skills. Managing social media intentionally is important to reap its benefits while limiting potential negative effects on well-being.

1. What Social
Media Does To
You?
The moment you suddenly realize, your
Facebook friends and retweets matter…
By R. Lee, lead editor

2. Social Media
Briefly3.8 billion social media users worldwide (2020)
2.32 billion active monthly users on Facebook
(2018)
500 million daily active Instagram Stories users (2019)
80% of total time spent on social media sites is mobile
(2018)
An average person spends 3 hours per day on social
media (2019)
Twitter has 152 million monetizable daily users in 2020
(up 21% year over year)

3. Social media are interactive computer-
mediated technologies that facilitate the
creation or sharing of information, ideas,
career interests and other forms of
expression via virtual communities and
networks.

4. • Nasty
• Fake
• It can eat up
• All of your time

5. And It Surely Is not All Just
About Money, Right?

6. • To catch up with friends (42%)
• To get news updates (41%)
• To fill up spare time (39%)
• To find entertaining content (37%)
• To network with other people (34%)
77 814 Internet users aged 16-64
According to GlobalWebindex report (2017),
The top 5 reasons social media is used for are:

7. Top Apps For a Friendly Chit Chat?
• Send snaps to each other update
• Snaps disappear within 24 hours
• You Can Use “Geofilters”
• Amazing Face Filters Fuel Excitement
• The Interface is User-Friendly
• Easy to Get Started
#1 Snapchat
More than 2 million snaps are sent per minute
Age demographics: 13 to 29-year olds

8. Want To See What Friends Have Been Up To?
• You can email your WhatsApp conversations
• Group chat, video, and voice calls
• Broadcast Lists
• WhatsApp supports Stories
• Support for Siri
#2 Whatsapp
1.5 billion monthly users
55 million WhatsApp video calls made per day,
lasting 340 million minutes in total

9. Where the news come from?
• A newly published Pew Research Center report 55% of U.S. adults
now get their news from social media either "often" or
"sometimes" – an 8% increase from last year. About three-in-ten
(28%) said they get their news "often," up from 20% in 2018.
• Of those who rely on social media for their news, industry giant
Facebook is now where about half (52%) of American adults get
the news, while YouTube came in second at 28%, followed by
Twitter at 17% and Instagram at 14%. LinkedIn, Reddit and
Snapchat had smaller but still notable audiences at a respective
8%, 8%, and 6%.

10. Unsure If a Pro Network Beats a Job Board?
Say Yes to LinkedIn
• Recruiters and HR professionals are on LinkedIn
• Extensive job listings from around the world
• Endorsements and testimonials help employers
rate your skill set
• Important business and alumni connections
• Professional groups with like‐minded people
• Easily updated online resume
• LinkedIn content platform to post articles
• News updates from your connections
• Your books, courses, websites, blogs get visible

11. Is Social Media Fun?
Top 3 TikTok creators to drop by:
1. Zach King (41.6M Fans )
2. Josh Richards (16.7M Fans)
3. James Henry (2.9M Fans)
Top 3 YouTube channels to follow:
1. The Ellen Show (33,898,023 subscribers)
2. David Dobrik (13,716,307 subscribers)
3. First We Feast (6,941,755 subscribers)
Top 3 Instagram accounts to check out:
1. @nochaser (7.8m followers)
2. @ oldrowofficial (2.1 million followers)
3. @jerryoftheday (1.7 million followers)

12. Is Social Media For Streamers?
Why Twitch?
The platform is integrated with Amazon Prime
and allows streamers to make money by
offering in-stream links through which viewers
can purchase the games being played.
1. VALORANT 279,364,857 viewer
hours
2. League of Legends 126,235,834
viewer hours
3. Just chatting 125,043,727 viewer
hours
4. Fortnite 80,712,972 viewers hours
5. Counter-Strike: Global Offensive
78,595,425 viewer hours
Twitch Stats (2020)
3.8 million unique broadcasters over February 2020
2.3 billion hours watched on Twitch in Q4 2019
(compared to 0.9 billion on YouTube Gaming and
0.1 million on Mixer)
The Most Watched Twitch Games
To Stream in 2020
Feel like live streaming the games is the true spirit of you?
Be the part of Twitch Universe!

13. Lesser Known Social Networking Websites
You Want To Try in 2020
• If you are a humanitarian, animal lover, feminist,
rabble-rouser, nature-buff, creative, and love doing the
right things: Care2.com (45+ million members)
• If you are interested in fibre arts, such as spinning,
knitting, weaving and crocheting:
• Ravelry.com (16 million users)
• If you like collecting and sharing all sorts of photos:
Weheartit.com (7.7 million users)
• If you love comedy videos and celebrity updates:
FunnyOrDie.com (1 million visitors)
A full list of social networking websites to hop on is here.

14. What Social Media Does For You?
• Keep up-to-date with the latest news
and developments, and share it with
others instantly
• Join and contribute to discussions on
events like conferences that you can't
attend in person with Facebook groups
• Check out Snapchat stories, and
message images to friends
• Watch adorable cats, quirky cooking
demos, funny science lessons, quick
fashion tips on YouTube
• You can do DIY tasks or home
improvement projects, plan your
travel agenda, pin easy recipes
• Connect with different businesses,
locate and hire ideal candidates,
promote your books and blogs
• Snap and share photos, and short
videos in seconds with Instagram
Stories, Instagram Direct, and IGTV

15. Let’s Balance Out
Here is what social media users reveal to psychologists
about social networking according to Psychology Today.
• “It lacks Emotional Connection”
• “Gives People a License to be Hurtful”
• “Decreases Face-to-Face Communication Skills”
• “Conveys Inauthentic Expression of Feelings”
• “Diminishes Understanding and Thoughtfulness”
• “Facilitates Laziness”
• “Creates a Skewed Self-Image”
• “Reduces Family Closeness”
• “Causes Distractions”

16. It seems that the path to today’s community leads through
the social media doors.
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But, are you a victim or the one who is to profit
from social channels?
More good than harm or vice versa?
What Social Media Does To
You?