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Social media has helped many businesses grow and promote itself, and has helped people find a better way to connect and communicate with one another. On the other hand, it’s also provided many people with problems involving mental health, emotional insecurities, and waste of time.
Social media helps you maintain relationships by making it easy to reach family and friends who live far; it closes the gap created by distance. In as much as social media can distract you from your goals, it can also help you accomplish them if you use the platforms effectively.
How Social Media will affect future generations?
By being able to communicate instantly not only with friends in their local area but also those spread all over the world, online teens can boost friendships and strengthen the lines of communication. They can even make new friends from diverse countries and cultures, increasing their cultural awareness.
How many people use social media worldwide in 2021?
The latest social media statistics show that there are 3.78 billion social media users worldwide in 2021 – and this number is only going to continue growing over the next few years (Statista, 2020). As it stands, that equates to about 48 percent of the current world population.
Most of the social media platforms that survived the last decade have shifted significantly in what they offer users. Twitter, for example, didn’t allow users to upload videos or images in the beginning. Since 2011 this is possible and today more than 50\% of the content viewed on Twitter includes images and videos.
Popularity, as NY Mag points out, used to have an intangible, unquantifiable quality to it. On social media, however, it’s the opposite: easily measured in followers, likes, retweets and all those other metrics that marketers use to calculate engagement.
How often do young people use social media?
Young people tend to use social media more frequently. In fact, in rich countries, where access to the internet is nearly universal, the vast majority of young adults use it. Our chart here shows the proportion of people aged 16 to 24 who use social networks across a selection of countries.