How Big Is Social Media?

In the age of the internet that we are all living in nowadays, it will be foolish to say that social media does not impact our lives on a massive scale. Just a look at how we spend our days can prove an otherwise case. For starters, the first that we do in the morning is check the instant messaging sections of social media apps to see if our loved ones tried to contact us during the hours of the night that we were sleeping. Then, when we are at work, we again use these apps to communicate with our loved ones at our houses. Some employees even use these apps to communicate with their colleagues! After all, what is social can also be professional. However, social media is most used once people are done with their jobs in the day. As soon as they get out of work, they use these apps to plan get-togethers with their friends. Once they are at those get-togethers, they post social media stories and check the stories of their loved ones to see what they are up to. Alternatively, in the case that they do not hang out with their friends, they may very well open up YouTube (a video streaming social media platform) to watch entertaining videos, documentaries, YouTube Shorts, and/or music videos.

The influence of these social media platforms is not only witnessed in how we spend our days only. It can also be seen in the numbers. The first number we are going to tell you about is the number of individuals who use at the very least one social media platform. Statista is a global leader in statistics reporting and has been since its inception in Hamburg, Germany well over ten years ago. It tells us that all across the globe, more than four billion people use, at the bare minimum, one social media platform. The same reporting site also tells us that there are approximately 8B people living on the crust of this world. That means that the majority of living humans are social media users. In the case that you found this figure striking, wait till you read the one in the next sentence. Social media users use social platforms for more than a couple of hours every single day. We sleep for eight hours, work for eight hours, get ready, commute, and eat for an hour each. Taking all that time out, it is very clear that social media users spend most of their free time on social platforms.

In the case that you are wondering about what caused this popularity of social media, the main reason may very well be the increase in the accessibility of the internet because of an increase in the number of providers supplying the global network. Just in the United States, there are at the very least seven thousand internet service provision brands of the same kind as Xfinity Internet. We know that is an accurate figure because it comes from the World Factbook of the Central Intelligence Agency.

Top Social Media Platforms

In the preceding section, we explained just how big social media has become. When something is so important to the human race, it is bound to be talked about a lot. While some like to discuss the phenomenon’s impact on different segments of the platform, others explore which social media platforms are the most influential. In the case that you belong to the latter group of people, the rest of this article will be very exciting for you. The reason we say this is that we will not only be naming but will also be elaborating on the social platforms we believe hold the most influence.

YouTube

Backed by the search engine giant, Google, YouTube is the largest social video streaming platform, having billions of users. You can post any kind of video on it. Alongside, you can watch, comment on, and share other people's videos as well. Uploading and downloading videos requires a good internet connection. Thus, in the case you want to take full advantage of YouTube, you need to have top-notch coverage. For this purpose, our recommendation would be to pay Xfinity to provide you with the internet. Xfinity customer service can be contacted to know more about the provider’s plans.

Facebook

Facebook was developed by founder Mark Zuckerberg in 2004 to allow his peers at Harvard University to communicate with one another. However, slowly, it grew to serve the whole wide world! Today, there are almost three billion monthly active users of Facebook.

Conclusion

Social media is important and hopefully, this article added to your knowledge about the phenomenon.