Facebook User Information

Definition: 

Facebook is a free-access social networking website that is operated and privately owned by Facebook, Inc. Users can join networks organized by city, workplace, school, and region to connect and interact with other people. People can also add friends and send them messages, and update their personal profiles to notify friends about themselves. The website's name refers to the paper facebooks depicting members of a campus community that some colleges and preparatory schools give to incoming students, faculty, and staff as a way to get to know other people on campus.

Facts:

-More than 200 million active Facebook users

-Majority of facebook users log on at least once a day

-More than 20 millions users update their statuses at least once a day

-The fastest growing demographic is those 35 years old and older

-Average Facebook user has 120 friends on the site

-More than 3.5 billion minutes are spent on Facebook each day

Social Media and You

Social Media is here to stay, regardless of your personal feelings about the viability of the medium.

This post is the first of a series that looks at social media, the tools and best practices for making it work for you. We'll answer the most common questions:

• What is it?
• How does it work?
• Will it work for childcare?
• How do I do it right?
• If I build it, will they come?

Let's start by defining social media. Here's the definition per Wikipedia:

Social media is content created by people using highly accessible and scalable publishing technologies.

At its most basic sense, social media is a shift in how people discover, read and share news, information and content. It's a fusion of sociology and technology, transforming monologues (one to many) into dialogues (many to many) and is the democratization of information, transforming people from content readers into publishers.

Social media has become extremely popular because it allows people to connect in the online world to form relationships for personal and business. Businesses also refer to social media as user-generated content (UGC) or consumer-generated media (CGM).