THE VALUE OF FACEBOOK

Social networking has been increasing massively and Facebook is one of the reasons why. Internet users spend 23% of their time on the Internet using Facebook and other social networking websites. Facebook has over 500 million users and is the most widely used social networking site in the world. Of all the people who log on to social networking websites, 85% of those people use Facebook. Of those people who use Facebook, the average person will be on Facebook for six hours every month.<See source here>

To see if any related studies have ever been done, we searched “gender vs. Facebook importance,” into the Google search engine. We found one site that was interesting. Within Facebook, there is a site that is taking a census of the genders of people who use Facebook. However, there were no results on this webpage. <Read More>

• We then found another website about a study that the University of Texas held. The University sent out surveys about Facebook use to 900 of their recent graduates and students nationwide. The survey was conducted in November 2009 up until January 2010 so this data will be a little old, but it was still be close to what it really is now.

Out of all the students and former students in the survey, 78.8% of them go on Facebook daily. That’s more than three quarters of the them who use Facebook daily. The University of Texas also found a gender differences in the way Facebook is used. 12.5% of the men in the survey said that posting statuses about their current events was one of their top three Facebook activities. This is opposed to the 7.6% of women who said that posting their current statuses was one of their top three activities. 44.5% of the women said that posting photos on Facebook was one of their top three Facebook activities, where as in men, only 37.6% said posting new photos was one of their top three activities. Another point shows that women consider communicating with their family through Facebook “very important” (40.3% of women and 26.4% of men). Both the men and women in the survey claimed that their top Facebook activities were “posting status updates” and commenting or “liking” other people’s status updates. To learn more about the study conducted by UT, <See Source>

We then look up “Facebook importance in teenagers” using Google as the search engine. We found a website with a link that talks about how more teenagers are becoming depressed and Facebook seems to be associated with the problem. The site informs parents on the topic of how Facebook can lead to depression in teenagers. This specific type of depression formed from using Facebook is actually a form of the contender syndrome. This type of depression can be caused by cyber bullying, sexting, and worrying about the amount of “friends” the teenager has on Facebook even though it is an indirect way of evaluating the teenager’s social standing. The website also lists and explains different methods of preventing depression in their teens. To learn more about these methods about preventing depression, <visit site>

We searched “Facebook use in teenagers” with the Google search engine. We came across a website that talked about the positive points about social networking. Checking their Facebook pages are the first things many teen do each day. The website also said that on a typical day, the average teenager spends almost three hours on the Internet. Almost half the teens who are on the Internet end up posting something on social networking websites, like Facebook, at least “occasionally”.  To see what else the website said, <read more>

We decided to search “Facebook usage by gender, “ into  the Google search engine and came across a website that  researched how often  different types  of users  log on to Facebook.  The article researched  how often different ages use Facebook, how  often males vs. females use Facebook, and compared different types of men and women who use facebook. The website remarkably shows that there is not much difference in how often males use Facebook compared to females. The greatest difference was that females use Facebook 10% more daily than males.  To research more statistics related to this article, <visit site>

• From this research we learned that both males and females use Facebook quite a lot in their everyday life. Males as much as females like to post new statuses and upload pictures. There was no research out there exactly like our study, but we still predict that in an association between males and females relating Facebook importance, females will say that Facebook is more important to them.