Socialising on the internet

In the past 15-20 years internet socialising has become very popular for almost all ages of people.  The first of many websites was set up in 1995, the first website was www.classmate.com this website was very popular and you use this website to find old college or school buddies and re contact them to catch up however this was quickly over ridden by friend united which was almost the same and was better in most people’s eyes. 

However in 2004 there was a new website called Facebook and this was a website where you can post what you’re doing upload photos and talk on a website chat and add friends. This was a rapidly growing website and in 3 years there were over 50million people who had obtained a face book account and were mainly used by the younger generation of people with over 85% of people under the age of 22. By 2008 this website had doubled its accounts and had created over 100 million accounts with the median age of 23. In July 2010 there were over 500million accounts made with over 2.15 billion content from users uploaded daily. In 2012 this number had risen to 1billion Facebook accounts which is over 1 seventh of the population and the median age was now 22.

However in 2012 the likes of twitter Skype and Google+ was rapidly growing and was over coming Facebook and Twitter was an easy way to find celebrities and follow them to find out what they are doing where they were quickly had to be verified to have a blue tick next to their name to see who the real person was thanks to the over whelming of parody accounts.

There was also a massive disadvantage of these sites. A woman Found out the death of her child before the police could come and tell her and this was through face book. This was bad and she couldn’t believe that her child died.

There is also the fact that you could find out what happened on T.V shows before it happened through twitter and Facebook. On twitter 26% of people with twitter where using twitter to find out world events, 31% where using it to find out sporting triumphs and browsing what they should watch on T.V before making their own decisions and the other 34% where finding out national news through social networking sites.

If you’re like me and always have your mobile phone on and constantly checking Twitter Facebook and Skype through your phone then this could be distracting for children taking exams and stopping them learning and could overall drop exam passes and could affect the rest of their lives.