Secondary Research for Final Idea

Five Key Questions

1) When did social media start taking effect as a whole?

The first email was actually sent in 1971 and the message which was sent was 'qwertyuiop'. However, the first social networking site was created 1994 and this site was named GeoCites. This website was created for users who wished to create and customise their own websites. Then the next year another website was launched and this site was named TheGlobe. This site had the availability for users to interact with other users who use the website to share their hobbies and interests.
So this was when social networking was established as the first sign of communication by computer systems.

AOL messenger started up in 1997 and this was the first initial site which was used being a social media site where people fully interact with each other



http://www.1stwebdesigner.com/design/history-social-networking/

http://www2.uncp.edu/home/acurtis/NewMedia/SocialMedia/SocialMediaHistory.html

2) What age range does social media effect the most?

Apon doing a lot of research I have found many different articles and facts about which age group uses social media the most, and this statistic stuck out the most to me as it is from the years of 2005 to 2013. This was useful to know as it tells you that it is in most recent times and it lets us know which ages of current people in the world are using the social media the most. Apon looking at the statistics carefully I found that the ages of 18 to 29 are the ages which contain the most social media users. This statistic was very useful to me as I gained information that most 18 and 19 year olds use a lot of social media websites and the good aspect is that those two ages were going to be included in my target audience for my documentary so when those two ages watch the documentary they will be able to visualise and relate to it.



http://www.pewinternet.org/fact-sheets/social-networking-fact-sheet/

3) How does social media effect teenagers psychologically?

I couldn't really find the correct information on this question as pretty much every article I found spoke about teenage victimization which is not quite what i was looking for

4) Which gender uses social media more? 

For looking at which gender in the human race uses social media the most I had to do a lot of research, by doing this I found an interesting statistic which can be seen in the image above. The statistic actually tells us that women use social media more on cell phones which may come as a surprise to many people. The statistic tells us that 41% of women use social media on their cell phones and 

http://www.pewinternet.org/fact-sheets/social-networking-fact-sheet/

5) How does it effect the teenagers spare time?

Apon doing research I found an article which provided me with good information in which what type of effects that social media has on teenagers. Above we see that social media sites are used to 'keep up with social ties' and what this quote means is that many teenagers use the social media websites to update themselves on what is going on in the world currently, so in another way, they use it to update them as being a news type source. I also found a strange fact which said that 'the average user of social networking site has more close ties and is half as likely to be socially isolated as the average American'


http://www.pewinternet.org/fact-sheets/social-networking-fact-sheet/