social media week 5

The lecture and tutorial in week 5 were centered on social media, a topic most people are well educated on in today’s society. The tutorial task was to make a survey with questions corresponding to social media. The questions were:

1.  Which social networking site do you prefer? (Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Other)

2. What do you use social media for? (Communication, Business, News, Other)

3. Do you use social media daily? (Yes/ No)

4. Is social media your first point of communication (Yes/ No )

5. Do you think social media has had a positive impact on society? (Yes/ No)

I posted the survey on Facebook in order to get as many responses as possible. 15 people completed the survey. Facebook was (unsurprisingly) the most popular social networking site, and social media was mainly used for communication. 90% of people used social media daily, but it was not their first point of communication. Surprisingly, over 70% of people who participated thought that social media had impacted negatively on society.

The lecture also discussed the differences of web 1.0 and web 2.0. Web 1.0 had a limited interaction between the site and web user, whereas web 2.0 allowed the users to network more liberally with each other, and allows them to modify already existing web content. Web 3.0 can be defined as anything, as people do not yet know what it will become. Some believe that it will become part of the human body, like the micro-chip that was discussed in week 3, or that computers that have the ability to interpret information on the same scale as humans, but no one will really know until it happens.