Social media has made our life easy. We are connected to the world with the help of social media. Nowadays most of the people spend their free time on social media. The availability of smartphones helps to expand this.
Now the question is how did social media make our life easy?
If we have a smartphone and it is connected with the Internet, we will have every single moments information.
Suppose an earthquake has attacked in a country for two or three seconds, but you cannot feel it. After a few moments, you take your smartphone, open Facebook app on your phone, and watch that someone gives post on Facebook "Earthquake attacked. We are safe".
In this way you may get information before telecasting by televisions. At this time, the Corona Virus (Covid-19) has spread all over the world. Thousand of people are being attacked by this deadly virus and thousands of people are being died of this virus. We get every update news through social media. Social media helps to prevent corruption.
One can show his/her skill on social media. Such as: one can sing well. She sings a song, records it, and may share it on social media. Again one can draw well. He or she may draw a picture of natural beauty and share it on social media. If their works will be viral, they will be famous social media. There are many photographer, singer, artist, and actor who has become famous for social media.
In this rainy season, various cyclone attacks in coastal countries. That's why weather forecast is so much important for those countries. It is now easy in this digital world the attacking time of cyclone, the location of that cyclone, and the speed of cyclone. We can get this information from social media easily. For this reason, we can lessen the consequences of that cyclone.
You can buy and sell products using social media from anywhere to any corner of the world. It is called E-commerce business. Top listed e-commerce sites are Amazon, Alibaba, eBay, etc.. Besides with the help of social media, many entrepreneurs can run an e-commerce business within their countries without any restriction.
In this era of the digital world, every business organization has to connect with social media to survive the competition. The reason behind this is the social media is only media through which the organizations can communicate with their customers or clients at any time at any place. Using social media, people, members of organizations, government can arrange and participate in a meeting through video conferences from anywhere in the world. Yet they can make a deal through a virtual signature.
Widely used social media are described here.
Facebook is one of the most popular social media in the world. Mark Zuckerberg along with Eduardo Saverin, Andrew McCollum, Dustin Moskovitz and Chris Hughes founded it in 2004. One can share his/her activities, views, news, photos, videos, art, business, and so on Facebook. You can show something live on youtube. In this way, people from any country can know what is happening to other countries as well as it made our life easy. In every year, the number of its user is increasing. The following chart will help you to realize how the number of its user is increasing:
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Youtube is one of the other popular social media only for
video sharing. It was founded by Steve Chen, Chad Hurley, and Jawed Karim.
You can share any video on youtube. Suppose you are a singer. You sing a song. Now you can share it on youtube. If it is unique, many people will view your video. Again most of the TV channels show their live news on youtube. As a result, we can know the news of other countries. In this way, it made our life easy. Through youtube, one can also show his/her skill.
Youtube currently counts two billion monthly active users that is the increase of 5% of 1.9 billion users logged in 2018.
Twitter is an American developed microblogging and social networking site. According to 2018 statistics, twitter's monthly active user is more than 321 million. On Twitter, you can see what Donald Trump is going on. Such like we get the thought of other politicians, actors, scientists, doctors, and the general public. For this reason, we can easily get what is going on in another country. At first one can post with only 140 charters. But the interesting matter is that recently it was doubled in twitter. One can now post with 280 characters.
Instagram is one of the other popular social media, where
one can share any kind of photo or photos. It was created by Kevin Systrom and
Mike Krieger. After that, it was owned by Facebook.
Instagram users are also increased day by day. We can get a
clear concept from the following chart.
Whatsapp is a social media
through which one can chat with his/her friends or relatives. To chat with
others you have to save his phone number to your phone. then when you open
Whatsapp on your phone, you will get the name you saved in your phone. Using
Whatsapp one can make audio or video calls. So it has also made our life easy.
Skype
Skype is popular for audio or
video call. Many business organizations arrange their business meeting through
video conference using Skype. It was first released in 2003 and created by Swede
Niklas Zennström and the Dane Janus Friis, in cooperation with Ahti
Heinla, Priit Kasesalu, and Jaan Tallinn. That means this
social media came to us from the first stage of developing and publishing of
social networking sites. For this reason its popularity so much high.
Skype was used by 100 million people on a monthly basis in March 2020, and by forty million people on a daily basis. That was a seventy (70) percentage increase in the number of daily users from the previous month, due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Because of Skype, we are not far from each other. We are closer to each other. That's why we can say that skype made our life easy.
Wechat is a Chinese social media
that is popular for chatting released in
Tiktok
Tiktok is a video-sharing social network site developed by ByteDance (a Chinese internet technology company) in September, 2016. According to 2019 Statistics, it had more than 800 million monthly active users.
One can share short videos here. Most of the videos are funny here. You can enjoy a lot. One can pass his/her leisure time on Tiktok, because TikTok users continue scrolling for watching videos one after another.
Tumblr
Tumblr is a social networking site popular for microblogging. Tumblr blogs may optionally allow users to submit questions, either as themselves or anonymously, to the blog for a response. This site allows its users to share their multimedia.
Now you can realize how easy our life is now for social media. Though there are many negative impacts of social media, we should take its positive sides in our life avoiding its negative sides.
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