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.