Facts and Opinion

Facts on Facebook:

1. Facebook founder Mark Zuckerburg is the youngest billioniare - according to Forbes list. http://www.penn-olson.com/2009/12/02/25-interesting-facebook-statistics-and-facts/



2. The average Facebook user has 130 friends and sends 8 friends requests per month http://facts.randomhistory.com/interesting-facebook-facts.html



3. Pyschologists have introduced the diagnosis FAD (Facebook Addiction Disorder), as a new kind of addiction disorder. http://www.penn-olson.com/2009/12/02/25-interesting-facebook-statistics-and-facts/stics-and-facts/



4. More than 35 million users, update their status each day http://tech.geekpolice.net/2010/01/31-amazing-facebook-facts-you-might-not.html


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http://misc.socialbladeshow.com/SB/FacebookFacts1.jpg

Opinions of Facebook:

1. 69% of people think facebook 'sucks' according to http://amplicate.com/sucks/facebook
2. Facebook promotes eating disorders http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/6935768.stm

Current Media Landscape

Current Media Landscape

Audience

The text I am currently focusing on is Facebook.

This social website currently has more than 400 million active users
http://www.facebook.com/press/info.php?statistics

This graph shows the UK demographics of Facebook users, categories by age and gender as of June2010. http://www.insidefacebook.com/2010/06/08/whos-using-facebook-around-the-world-the-demographics-of-facebooks-top-15-country-markets/

Final Idea.

"How do teenagers use social networking websites in their everyday lives?"

Texts:

The main social website i will be focusing on is Facebook, this is one of the popular website amongst teens at the moment. In addition, i will also be look at the rise of Twitter and how this is claiming a large amount of Facebook users.

Media Theories:

The uses and gratifications theory.

Coursework Ideas.

1) The impact of social networking on teenagers.

2) To investigate the affect of size 0 models (due to how they are shown in the media) on the rise of eating disorders.