Blog post #2 Cole Culina
I find it really interesting how connected social media and the internet are. One stat was that there are 36 million internet users and 33 million people use social media. I always thought that the internet would have a lot of users as everyone or mostly everyone is connected to the internet now. But the amount of those people on social media surprised me. I would always assume social media was for younger people and I am half right as 24-35 years olds is the largest group on social media. As the numbers show there are only 3 million Canadians from the stats that don’t use social media. Meaning that older and even younger people as in kids are on social media of some sort. Learning about how many people use and are on social media definitely surprised me as I thought such a much smaller percentage of our population used social media.
Hello Cole.
ReplyDeleteIt was a great addition to include the internet/social media statistic, as this provides a reference the scale of reach social media and the internet have on the population. You should include the citation for this statistic, and for others included in your response. I would also urge you to connect this information that you have provided, to course concepts which are relevant. For example, technological determinism etc.
Overall I enjoyed your post, and hope you are able to benefit from my response.
Hi Cole, I was also surprised at the sheer amount of social media users there are, most of whom, understandably, are young people. I wonder how you think young people's social media use differs from that of older groups? Are there certain platforms that you think are more popular among young people than old people and vice versa?
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