Social media sites and the Olympic sponsors

Olympics have entered in to the new era of social media from last 4 years. In 2008, Olympics have shown their existence on the social media sites with limited fan base and users. However in 2012, Facebook has promised about 900 million users to the Olympic Games. Twitter, on the other hand has promised about 140 million users. Certainly, there is enormous increase in fan base since Beijing Olympics.

With the enlightenment of Olympic torch in London, social media sites have also tighten their strategies. They have not only started posting day to day activities in their Olympic event page but also started maintaining track of sponsor activities.

Early childhood development through innovative social media applications

Early childhood development is the most integral element to build the good foundation of children’s physical, metal, social and emotional abilities. In early years of development, each child form different patterns of habits which will continue years later in his or her life.

In 2009, UNICEF has organized workshop to know that how young children learn and develop, what role parents and families can play to support early childhood learning and development and the role of innovative media in effective childhood development. The workshop has highlighted that “learning through play” is the key element. Playing is a multi facet element and it helps in creating distinct abilities in children.  Children games help them to understand the social values and develop skills.

From many other recent researches it is also unfolded that learning through play develops sense of self-esteem and behavior to some extent. That is the reason, researchers have suggested to pay attention in developing the link between the world and the child. Children who have availed early childhood development are more likely to establish their strong personality and get success in their life.

Researchers have explicitly revealed that parents, trainers, and media all have to play their role for stimulating the holistic development of the children from childhood. In this regards many early childhood training centers are established. They have employed trained teachers for developing the holistic abilities in children. Innovative media has also played a central role in making the children learn with fun. Baby TV, Pogo, Nickelodeon and Disney channel all are focusing to stimulate the early childhood development. In fact, the smartphone companies like Apple, Google etc. have launched many apps for the children holistic development. 

There was a time when parents stop their children from the excessive interaction with media. But, these days parents themselves remain in search of ECD apps for the children. They know how ECD applications are planned and developed for helping the parents in developing abilities in children. ECD app market is open for many developers. Social media like Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter etc. are the hub of many users. Parents and pre schools also interact with each other at this social platform. Thus, social media applications for early childhood development are quite famous.

Application developers for the social media sites have considered developing the Facebook Application, Twitter apps, Yippee apps etc for early childhood. Here are some suggestions on which application developers can make their ECD apps.

1.      Photo based book app: Photos are the best way to develop the cognitive ability in the children. Photo based book app will be quite helpful for children to gain information about world. This app will help be quite supportive to develop children’s senses through manipulation and observation.

2.      Me and My dad app: Fathers play a vital role in early development of children. Children grow much confident and healthier under the supervision of their dad. These types of social media apps can help children to develop strong bound with their fathers.

3.      Me and My mom app: Love and care are the two personality aspects associated with mums. Social media apps can be built to make child learn about this relationship.

4.      Explore world app: Curiosity is the part of children life. They love to explore the things and take initiative to interact with the world. For infants, different natural elements, like bubbling water, mountains, flying birds, shinning sky etc can be added in this app.

5.      Fear reduction app: Fear is that element of children’s personality which no parent wants to have in their child. Thus, social media apps can be created on this issue. They can be prepared to eliminate the fear in children and give them positive feel about the things. Most of the children have fear from doctors, darkness, bath, thunder etc.

Now, it is the responsibility of social media app developers to address the suggested list and give something unique to the parents. This will help early development of child and will also let them reap huge monetary benefits. 

Facebook business model for convincing valuation in stock market

Facebook is the most commonly visited social media site. It has tremendous customer base who actively participate to keep this platform alive. Despite this fact, Facebook has not yet found convincing business model. At least they do not have any convincing reason to boost up their lofty valuation. In order to give economic boost to the valuation of Facebook stocks, Zuckerberg has decided to unlock the job business. Well have a look at the decision from various aspects and analyze that whether this move will become reason for power housing the growth or blow up the act.

In any business, competition is the biggest threat. Thus, Facebook must not forget about LinkedIn before coming in to the job business. No doubt, LinkedIn is the most promising job market and they work socially to introduce the profiles of many businesses and professionals. LinkedIn is providing opportunity to its users to present themselves and demonstrate their skills for any purpose, rather than job search. They have strategically planned their move and are earning 50% of revenue from job business. In such scenario, Facebook have to carefully evaluate their potential in the job market.

The biggest advantage of Facebook to penetrate in the growing business of job is their huge customer base. They are much bigger and thus they have huge potential to grow in this domain. According to the Dow Jones, the step taken to introduce the job board by Facebook can turn into biggest success and boost economic values of share if they become able to beat competition.

On the other hand, LinkedIn has biggest lead that it does not share too much personal information of its users. Alternatively, Facebook has worked on social alley. On Facebook users share crazy pictures, post crazy feeds and do many unprofessional things which they never want to share on professional platform. Thus, it is quite necessary for Facebook to think about personal and professional privacy of the users. Their success lies in drawing the fine line between professional and personal profiles.

Now question is what steps Facebook should take to differentiate both profiles. Facebook should take sense of inspiration from Google. Google has performed tremendous job in case of Google Plus. They have given anatomy to the users to share only limited information with the group of users they want. Although, Facebook has also offered this option in their privacy setting area but they have not created enough awareness on how to use this option. The need is to create awareness because it has become the massive disadvantage for the Facebook.

If Facebook feels it difficult to implement the privacy functionality, they can go for finding other solutions. One of the smarter solutions in this regards can be, Facebook can build their job board inside the existing social network. There they can allow the users to share only particular piece of information in the professional profiles. In this case, users are not required to mingle with tough functionality of privacy setting and separating each piece of information from other. If Facebook successfully meet this expectation of users, they will surely fly in the open sky.

Zuckerberg and his Facebook team can leverage out the customer base by simply allowing the users not to mix their professional and personal profiles. Everyone is looking forward that what they will going to avail from the new upcoming job board of Facebook. On the other hand, Facebook management is more concern that their move will be able to create convincing reasoning to enhance its share value in the stock market or not. 

Successful mobile strategy to capture the developing plate of mobile Facebook

Recent rumors about falling shares of Facebook in the stock market, at last break the silence of Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of the company. Zuckerberg is being challenged by falling shares due to ineffective mobile Facebook app strategy. The official announcements from Facebook management have shown that they are thinking hard about how to device a successful mobile strategy to capture the developing plate of mobile Facebook. 

The Facebook applications for smart devices are quite slow and difficult to operate. This has raised a huge question in front of the developers and management team of Facebook. Releasing new application for smart devices is like to give whole new experience to the users. Thus, Facebook has to do something unusual to meet the expectations of the users.

Marketing experts, social media personnel, Facebook critics and mobile industry veterans all are waiting to see the next step of Facebook. They are anxiously waiting to know whether Facebook management will be able to overhaul mobile platform or not. One of the marketing specialists, Robert J. Payne has figured out that Facebook is not only social media site which is challenged by this problem. He also revealed that no one has yet device the mobile advertising strategy perfectly. But, as Facebook is quite demanding and too much large, thus they are facing more hardness with the problem.

Facebook have announced the developer tool kit for connecting the apps between the Apple iOS system and the Facebook. This tool kit is going to establish integration across iPhone and Facebook and give effective Facebook mobile app. The initial reaction of the developers by listening about the developer tool kit was quite positive. It means sooner Facebook will resolve the mobile Facebook app issue.

The chief innovation officer and co-founder of Vibes mobile marketing company Campbell, beliefs that the effective mobile strategy can be devised by addressing the three key elements. These are location, time and interaction. Being marketing experts, he has said that the Facebook must start working on devising their mobile strategy by asking different questions about user’s experience. They must ask themselves that what they can do in enhancing the experience. He further added that of course Facebook is a social media site where users want more social interaction. Thus, Facebook must think about providing social interaction apps without disturbing the privacy of the other users.

Campbell beliefs; that it is not necessary for Facebook to do something noticeable and major for giving an exceptional experience to the users.  He added that Facebook can arrange their newsfeed and show updates from the users to the concern parties. Like for instance; if someone has posted that he or she is planning to go on shopping, Facebook can employ the location based feature. They can instantly display the ads of shopping malls and bazaars in their pages and alerts. These areas must also be recommended by the friends.

This was the suggestion given by expert. He said that Facebook can bring dozen of more changes to revamp the user’s experience. He added that Facebook must think to initiate the Facebook app development from scratch. They should not rely on repacking the same web experience in the phones.

In the nutshell, Facebook app for mobile must not give an online site view. It must works for educating the users about latest happening in their social networks and must respond to their updated status. This would mean to develop the Facebook mobile app by keeping in mind the importance of time, interaction and location. They should come up with something interactive rather than just news feeding.

A central place for Facebook applications-Facebook App Center

In order to convert the social network sites in to key entertaining platform, Facebook has launched Facebook application store. Facebook App Center is the home of numerous games and apps that can be enjoyed on mobile devices and on the personal computers. Facebook App Center is a social platform from where millions of Facebook users can easily download quality games and apps. Moreover, this App Center has bestowed an opportunity to the developers to introduce their apps and games, with more exposure. This platform also boost up the confidence in developers to come up with more quality oriented apps and games for the millions of Facebook users.
Facebook App Center is the biggest move in the booming market of lifestyle, games and productive apps. It has become the central place from where Facebook users can have access to 600 apps, including Spotify, Draw something, Battle pirates, Ghosts of Mistwood, Pinterest, Bubble witch saga, Jetpack Joyride and lots more. Users can have access to App Center from their webs, iOS and android Facebook apps.
Facebook App Center is a creation of quality. The developers of App Center believe in quality apps rather than uploading quantity apps. They analyze and evaluate the apps on various parameters before introducing them in the App Center. Every Facebook application has to avail high ratings and have to engage users for the longer duration. Moreover, apps must have good feedbacks to gain high position in the app rating metrics. Well designed Facebook applications will be gifted by prominent display, whereas, apps with poor rating will not be entertained in the App Center.
Another clause to become the part of the Facebook App Center is to have a detail app page. This page has to be created for presenting the valuable information about apps to the users. This page is created by the app developers in the “app developer section”. Developers also have to post some images of the apps, in order to provide additional details to the users. After developing the app detail page, developers can upload their apps in the App Center. Any page that is prepared without following the guidelines provided by the Facebook App Center will be automatically removed. This is the reason; developers should carefully abide by all the laws prior to launching their app.
Facebook has taken this move to give reason to their users to stay with them. They do not want their users to switch just because rival platform is offering them reasons to leave the site. The App Center is cleverly established to grow the mobile apps and games for the smartphone users. App Center allows the smartphone and web mobile users to download apps from their own Facebook App Store.
According to the industry researchers, the apps have become an essential part of the smartphone user’s lifestyle. Apple was the first one who launched a unanimous platform for downloading apps. Google Android and Facebook became follower. The research also indicated that approximately 13 billion apps were downloaded from these platforms last year. Most of these apps are offered for free but, however, they have given 25 billion dollar revenue to the developers.
Now Facebook.com is facilitating app developers to offer free and paid apps to the 900 million users of Facebook. There will be simple mode of payments so that users will be able to enjoy easy downloads. Developers can sign up for uploading their app detail page and apps in the exciting and entertaining world of App Center. Cross the fingers for the astonishing Facebook App Center for web and smart devices.

Facebook is referring its users to download free antivirus programs

Exercising little cautions on Facebook can be as safe as the company of the known persons.  There are billions of post, news feeds, images, apps and videos published on Facebook, each day. These are posted by the users all around the globe. It is quite essential for the users to keep up with their wits and think critically before clicking to unknown apps and feeds. Facebook is also concerned about the security of its users and that is the reason, it timely introduces new security mediums.

Facebook has always worked for the improvement of security. Recently, Facebook has announced a security initiative for its users. The aim of this new security initiative is to protect the users from phishing scams, malware and viruses. Facebook has offered an expanded URL black listing system and free downloads of the antivirus programs. Antivirus program companies who are working at the backend of Facebook are Trend Micro, Microsoft, Sophos, McAfee and Symantec. 

Gateway to the antivirus software from these five companies is the Facebook security page. This page is created to direct the users to the Antivirus Marketplace and Security Homepage from where they can download the free antivirus programs for their systems. This page is also frequently updated for security related stories. The Facebook security page is also referred as blog to know about the current happenings in the Facebook security world. Users will also be able to explore the news feeds on security posted by the Trend Micro, Microsoft, Sophos, McAfee and Symantec. They will also be able to share this information with their friends.

The antivirus programs are available for free downloads on the Antivirus Marketplace. Users can download free antivirus programs offered by above five companies. The Microsoft offers free products for its users and thus there will be no dime required to be paid. On the other hand, Trend Micro, Sophos, McAfee and Symantec offer free downloads with six months free license. Mac users are asked to concern Apple for their security updates against malware on Facebook.  Facebook’s URL black list is also going to get affiliate with the database of the above mentioned companies. This will be an effective way to secure the users from threats.

Facebook has attempted security initiative to aware the users against the threats and help them to feel more secure while browsing Facebook. Facebook has also allowed the assessment of the PDF file of Facebook security guide and other crucial security tips on the Facebook security homepage. Currently, this option is showing error, but Facebook will rectify the problem soon and fix it.

Facebook security initiative is facilitating the users and giving them the security tips from the experts of the leading antivirus software companies. Facebook is also updating the users when it encounters malware infection. It has introduced the malware checkpoint which informs the Facebook users about the malware infections and protection. Victimized users can simply visit the Facebook security page and download the antivirus software of Trend Micro, Sophos, Microsoft, McAfee and Symantec. 

An example of malware infection is DNS changer malware threat. Facebook step for alerting their users against danger is worth appreciating. Facebook and above five companies have warned the users about this malware infection and they have also given advice on how to fight against this threat. Facebook is also alerting its users against the malicious websites and cross site scripting attacks.

Facebook’s efforts in protecting its users are worth appreciating. They have made collaboration with the antivirus program companies and have supported their aim to stop malware, viruses and scams. Users can download free antivirus software from Facebook gateway and stay safe.   

Chatwing Shout box has resulted in Facebook expansion

Chatwing shout box, as the name suggests has provided an avenue to enjoy real time communication. Facebook users can utilize the shout box for availing different services offered by this chatting tool. This tool is quite easy to use and give real time chatting experience.

Facebook users are allowed to use the Chatwing shout box for expanding their social networks easily. They can use the communication potential offered by this tool and enjoy communication expansion. Chatwing shout box offers social media networking integration feature. This integration feature offer large exposure among the Facebook users. Every online brand understands that how much it is essential to have large exposure for the online marketing of a brand. Thus, many online businesses have been emphasizing on this tool box. They have used the Chatwing and ensured the interaction with their Facebook users.

The Chatwing chat application has also been launched for various blogging communities. This app helps the bloggers to gain more visibility than before. It is facilitating the bloggers to have good exposure in the prospect customers. Even the Chatwing developers are also shocked from the amount of exposure they are availing. This is beyond their imaginations. Chatwing tool has started working to facilitate the informational need of the users. This tool is working on the grander scale and covering numerous topics to be searched on internet. It has bestowed ease of searching on different webs and blogs for the customers.

For Facebook users and group makers the Chatwing application is very beneficial. They can use the app for finding members for the groups. This tool helps the Facebook group makers, to speedily and timely transfer the information.

Chatwing shout box can also be very fruitful for the Facebook gamers. Facebook gamers usually maintain their gamming blogs. Chatwing app allows the gaming bloggers to invite and welcome more gamers for playing games on their blogs. This gives them more business and results in more profit generation. Chatwing developing team is still working to enhance the influx of more bloggers and Facebook users by upgrading and developing the app. This upgrading will help the users of Chatwing app to run the app smoothly and also eliminate the technical glitches.

Sole purpose of the Chatwing developing team is to provide the better online communication. For this, the Chatwing developers are planning to facilitate the Facebook users to gain more online leverage through intact with the Chatwing web chatting tool. Moreover, the developing team of Chatwing has maintained a blog which is full of information and entertaining content for the users.

The chat room provided by the Chatwing is far much better than that of rivals. This is because; the Chatwing developing team has conducted the in-depth studies and research for ensuring the satisfaction of their customers. The live chatting software has been developed by the chatwing.com. This software is facilitating the chatting needs of blogs and websites. The high rate of connectivity offered by chatwing.com has allowed them to cater the larger communicating communities. It only takes them one or less minute to create their own customized live chatting box. The users of Chatwing chat tools are allowed to customize their chatting box by deciding color, size and the fonts of the chatting product. This chat box also allow the clients to get connected to the social media sites like Facebook, Twitter etc. and enable chat with their customers.  It really provides unique chatting experience in the real time. Also, this chatting is cent percent free of cost and quite easy to be used. Enjoy expending your Facebook with the Chatwing shout box.

Role of Facebook in turning teenagers in to gamblers

Facebook is playing a vital role in turning the teen agers in to the gamblers. Teenagers are becoming gambling addicts because of Facebook gambling games. Many experts have already warned Facebook that if they won’t stop promoting casino type games on their social networking site, they will turn the teens in to gamblers.

Latest reports issued by the experts of UK have shown that teens consider that the gambling is the harmless fun. Additionally, the reporters of Daily Mail have also highlighted the adverse impact of the casino games on Facebook. Daily Mail report says that teen agers use the virtual coins to play the thrilling games. They gamble for the jackpot of roulettes and slot machine games from the virtual coin.   

Another fact is, Facebook does not allow the accounts for the children under the age of 13 years. This is the lowest age for registering the Facebook account. However, fact is quite opposite. In fact the kids under 13 years have their Facebook accounts. Kids usually enter false data and become Facebook member. At this age, kids are more prone to games. Facebook with dozens of casino games become reason for catching the attention of the kids. Kids start playing games without realising the adverse effects.

Even the government of the different countries has set the minimum age for playing the gambling games. For instance, the minimum age for gambling games in UK is 18 years. This is the legal age in Britain still kids under 13 years are playing the gambling games.

The germs of Facebook are floating in every home equipped with smart phone devices and the personal computers. In fact, parents also find them helpless in stopping their children from not playing gambling games. Facebook is a home of dozens of casino games. These include the slot mania, jack pot joy, double down casino, Zynga, Fluff friends etc.

These games are quite famous. They are almost equal in fame as the other social games are. The evidence of their fame is clear from the share of Zynga. Only Zynga is capturing the 12 percent share of the Facebook revenue. The fame of Zynga can also be known from the fact that last month Zynga slot machines have been launched in the casinos of UK.

A parent warned Facebook and try to grab their attention towards the gambling issue when her 13 years old daughter start feeling upset when she loosed virtual money on Fluff friends. She said that if this issue is not rectified and solved then children will become habitual from the younger age and it will be a huge problem to stop them from gambling activities, in the long term. She further added that gambling is the lifelong risk and children will become problem makers.

GamCare is UK based charity organisation. They have dictated the Gambling Commission to scrutinize the social gaming issues at Facebook. This issue is quite challenging, as gambling games can be enjoyed and played free of cost. Thus, kids feel encouraging while playing the games. So, the question is how this commission will stop kids?

Mr. Mandy Barrie director of Gambling Commission has said that they have to be very careful in fighting against this risk. Because, early exposure to the gambling games develops huge problem in the adulthood.

In this regard, the Facebook spokesperson added that they will also play their part in stopping the kids from not to play the gambling games. They will abide by the local law of gambling and will bind their guidelines for their game developers.

Announcement of the Olympics partnership between Facebook and NBC:

On Wednesday, NBC and Facebook have announced their Olympics partnership. NBC Olympics has found a way to know about the social conversation going-on related to the Olympics London, staring from 27^th of July. They have chosen Facebook social media site for listening to the sports lovers and talking back. The users of the Facebook have been reminded about the NBC’s coverage of Olympic Games, this summer. NBC viewers have also been privileged to talk about the Olympics Games on the Facebook site.

Data generated from Facebook about the Olympics Games will be shared on NBC universal and other TV channels that are going to telecast the portion of Olympic Games. Facebook Talk Meter will be occasionally telecasted on TV to reflect the social gossips taking place about Olympic Games on Facebook.

Since last Olympic Games 2008, world has encountered the ever lasting relationship between the TV and the web. Facebook is the hub of 900 million users and second screen. Viewers of TV channels are motivated to share their view points through social media sites. Thus, the president of NBC Olympics has said that Facebook platform is selected to reassemble the audience around the world for the biggest sports event.

The executives of NBC Olympic and Facebook have said that this partnership is not an advertisement deal. Further, they have informed that no money exchange will be taking place. This deal is in-fact to promote the products of both companies. They are aimed to encourage the viewership and chatting among the users and viewers.

NBC Olympics marketing maneuver is to introduce the NBC Olympic page and frequently bombard it with the exclusive contents for the fans. Olympics fans will allowed to share the latest updates, videos and articles published on Olympics website with their Facebook friends. This will surely encourage more feed readings and viewership.

Mr. Mitchell has said, NBC will be going to streamline all the Olympic events on its website. This will provide opportunity to the sports fans to figure out what is going on. They will be encouraged to share the latest happening on the Facebook Olympic Page and will be able to discover hundreds of new games, events and athletes.

On the other hand, most intriguing part of this partnership is sharing of crunching Facebook data on the NBC TV channel. Facebook small team and NBC staff members will work to convert the data in to mind grabbing stories and share it on the TV channel. These stories will be broadcasted on “Facebook Talk Meter” and shown in the prime times of the day. Executives believe that it will be quite informative and interesting for the sports fans to know what hot is going on and what people are discussing about Olympic Games.

With this opportunity, the hanging threat is the collaboration of Twitter with NBC’s closet competitor ESPN. Twitter is the hub of largest online chatter for the TV events. Facebook is lagging behind Twitter. Twitter has successfully worked with numerous TV networks for amplifying the second screen behavior of the viewers and the users. This spring, Twitter has announced its partnership with ESPN for one of the major sporting event NBA finals.

On the other hand, NBC has not yet selected the biggest hub of online chatters of TV event, Twitter. They still are crossing fingers to have deal with Twitter for the Olympic Games, before the commencement of the event.  The executives of NBC Olympics have said that they will be collaborating with Twitter and will active the “Twitter Tracker” for London Olympics Games. Twitter Tracker always remains full with the Tweets about events.

Facebook is Referring its Users to Download Free Antivirus Programs

Exercising little cautions on Facebook can be as safe as the company of the known persons.  There are billions of post, news feeds, images, apps and videos published on Facebook, each day. These are posted by the users all around the globe. It is quite essential for the users to keep up with their wits and think critically before clicking to unknown apps and feeds. Facebook is also concerned about the security of its users and that is the reason, it timely introduces new security mediums.

Facebookhas always worked for the improvement of security. Recently, Facebook has announced a security initiative for its users. The aim of this new security initiative is to protect the users from phishing scams, malware and viruses. Facebook has offered an expanded URL black listing system and free downloads of the antivirus programs. Antivirus program companies who are working at the backend of Facebook are Trend Micro, Microsoft, Sophos, McAfee and Symantec. 

Gateway to the antivirus software from these five companies is the Facebook security page. This page is created to direct the users to the Antivirus Marketplace and Security Homepage from where they can download the free antivirus programs for their systems. This page is also frequently updated for security related stories. The Facebook security page is also referred as blog to know about the current happenings in the Facebook security world. Users will also be able to explore the news feeds on security posted by the Trend Micro, Microsoft, Sophos, McAfee and Symantec. They will also be able to share this information with their friends.

The antivirus programs are available for free downloads on the Antivirus Marketplace. Users can download free antivirus programs offered by above five companies. The Microsoft offers free products for its users and thus there will be no dime required to be paid. On the other hand, Trend Micro, Sophos, McAfee and Symantec offer free downloads with six months free license. Mac users are asked to concern Apple for their security updates against malware on Facebook.  Facebook’s URL black list is also going to get affiliate with the database of the above mentioned companies. This will be an effective way to secure the users from threats.

Facebook has attempted security initiative to aware the users against the threats and help them to feel more secure while browsing Facebook. Facebook has also allowed the assessment of the PDF file of Facebook security guide and other crucial security tips on the Facebook security homepage. Currently, this option is showing error, but Facebook will rectify the problem soon and fix it.

Facebook security initiative is facilitating the users and giving them the security tips from the experts of the leading antivirus software companies. Facebook is also updating the users when it encounters malware infection. It has introduced the malware checkpoint which informs the Facebook users about the malware infections and protection. Victimized users can simply visit the Facebook security page and download the antivirus software of Trend Micro, Sophos, Microsoft, McAfee and Symantec. 

An example of malware infection is DNS changer malware threat. Facebook step for alerting their users against danger is worth appreciating. Facebook and above five companies have warned the users about this malware infection and they have also given advice on how to fight against this threat. Facebook is also alerting its users against the malicious websites and cross site scripting attacks.

Facebook’sefforts in protecting its users are worth appreciating. They have made collaboration with the antivirus program companies and have supported their aim to stop malware, viruses and scams. Users can download free antivirus software from Facebook gateway and stay safe.  

Social Media Better for News Finding than Search Engines and Newspapers

Search Engines and Newspapers are Lagging BehindSocial Media for the News Sharing

At time, staying up-to-date with the world news seems overwhelming. But, when people start realizing that how much it is important to keep them on top, they will surely begin reading and watching the news programs. According to a research, it is examined that the US and UK public are least interested in world news. They find it quite boring to read the newspaper and watch the news channel of any other nation.

If newspapers and TV channels are not the source of news sharing these days, then on which source young population of the world is relying? Well, new researchers have empirically proven that it is the news feeds of social media networking sites who are sharing latest news with the young generations. News feeders have realized the importance of news and they felt as their responsibility to educate their young citizens about the latest happenings in the world. 

Catching fire of news feeds on the social media has admitted that most of the people are experts in some area. They love to share their news feeds especially when their friends are looking up for them. This current trend has demolished the sales of newspapers and viewership of e-newspapers. They become the influencers and can never be replaced.

A survey done by the news channel has revealed that most of the news telecasted on the news channels and news papers are articulated on the social networking sites. These news feeds are basically originated and collected by the media reporters and news analysts. In this area BBC news is the biggest news source for the Twitter. It shares almost 749,974 tweets per month originated by BBC. (This survey and statistics is shared by Rippla.com). The same survey has discovered that for Facebook, BBC is the second most news source. The leading position of news source is Mail Online for the Facebook.  On the other hand, Wall Street Journal, The New York Times and Washington Post are also the source of news for the news feeders of social media sites. The reason for considering them as the source, is to avail reliable & authenticate information . The news feeders of social media sites also aimed to become the most reliable source of news like these mediums.

For a recent study the statistics of people has been revealed who prefer social sites for news sharing and finding. It is explored that the people between the age 16 to 24 are twice as likely to search the news on social media networking sites than the search engines. Whereas, the older generation still prefer the search engines and newspaper for news finding rather than the social media sites. Almost 33% of the people above 45 years prefer search engines and locally published newspapers and only 11% prefer social media sites.

Research has also revealed that Facebook is deemed to be the most important source of news sharing. Almost 55% of the news is shared by the news feeds of Facebook. E-mails are the second most important medium of news sharing, accounting 33% of news sharing. Twitter is grabbing 23% of news sharing market. On the other hand, LinkedIn and Google are the least popular medium for sharing the news.

Empirically it is proven that the search engines and newspapers are lagging behind social media for the news sharing. Now, question is that what types of news are mostly shared on the social networking sites. Interesting fact is the citizen of world differs in their choice of news feeds. The Britain  mostly takes interest in technological and science news. Almost 23% of Britain have extreme interest in technology and science. Conversely, 19% of the Britain prefers the news about business and finance through social media sites. US citizens are more concerned about their town and states. They prefer the news feed focused on their internal matters. On the other hand, Germans are more interested about religious news. The choices go on with different nations. In the nutshell, social sites are playing most important role in sharing news to the world, these days.