Social Networking Overuse

By Anna LaRochelle and Monique LaBarre

SOCIAL NETWORKING!

We all have used it at least once in our lives

FacebookTwitterTextingAIMYoutubeiTunes

THESIS STATEMENT

Social Networking is an overused activity to the American society, and is a waste of time.

73% of all teens and young adults are a member of at least one social networking website

The average user spends more than 55 minutes per day on Facebook

Twitter has 24+ million unique visitors per month, with 500 million tweets per day

DID YOU KNOW?

Users as of December 14th, 2010

Facebook: 133,623,529

MySpace: 50,615,444

Twitter: 23,573,178

DO YOU USE SOCIAL NETWORKING?

OF COURSE YOU DO!Just by texting, you are using Social Networking

Statistics have shown that the more Social Networking that you do, the less your social skills develop

SOCIAL NETWORKINGSocial Networking makes you care more about what others are doing and makes you stop living in the moment

Your “News Feed” on Twitter or Facebook consists of updates from your “friends”

In most cases, you don’t know half of your friends

Facebook The main goal of many users is to simply have

more Facebook friends than your friends do Generally speaking, once you get addicted to

Facebook, you cannot get off People check their Facebook by the minute,

seeing what others are doing In some cases, people get envious when they

see that they weren’t invited to do something 50% of active Facebook users log on in any

given day Everyday, 35 million statuses are updated

Twittero Twitter is used as people’s “Journal”o There are over 50 million “tweets” per dayo People are regaled by others statuseso You are basically stalking celebrities by

following them and paying attention to what they do all day

o You follow people that you don’t know just because you think they look cool

o The average Twitter user only knows 5% of their followers

TEXTING Fully 72% of all teens — or 88% of teen cell phone

users — are text-messagers Cell-phone texting has become the preferred way

of basic communication between teens and their friends

Half of teens send 50 or more text messages a day, or 1,500 texts a month

One in three send more than 100 texts a day, or more than 3,000 texts a month.

Boys typically send and receive 30 texts a day; girls typically send and receive 80 messages per day.

86% of girls text message friends several times a day; 64% of boys do the same.

AS YOU CAN SEE Social Networking is a waste of time People should live in the now, and not

be feckless caring about what others are doing

Social Networking has a mainly negative impact on the American society

Social Networking is an overused activity to the American society, and is a waste of time.

BIBLIOGRAPHY http://bensoncheng.wordpress.com/2

010/05/07/teens-cell-phones-and-texting-statistics/

http://www.graphicsms.com/blog/877-social-networking-statistics-2010/

http://mashable.com/2010/08/02/stats-time-spent-online/