10 c’s of social networking, interconnections and the impact on social networking
Social networking is unquestionably one of the most vital and influential aspect of today’s society. Social networking has been in use in various forms such as prodigy an interactive personal service, GEnie and CompuServe are known to be the early social networks. This paper provides an analysis...
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| description | Social networking is unquestionably one of the most
vital and influential aspect of today’s society. Social networking
has been in use in various forms such as prodigy an interactive
personal service, GEnie and CompuServe are known to be
the early social networks. This paper provides an analysis of
facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter and MySpace, all current, interactive
social networks. The data has been collected from secondary
sources. The data has been analyzed and compared for its user
base and growth since their existence and also gender base users
for various age groups. The analysis of data indicate some useful
and new insights such as, the facebook is the most popular
network having the highest number of users. LinkedIn network,
in the age groups between 34 to 45 years having the highest
number of users. Interestingly LinkedIn, in gender base analysis,
for the age groups of 34-45 numbered less than male users. This
indicate that male professional out number than female users.
Overall findings show that female users are 66% and rest 34%
are male users for all four social networks that were analyzed in
this research work. |
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| spelling | iium-311932021-01-18T04:42:36Z http://irep.iium.edu.my/31193/ 10 c’s of social networking, interconnections and the impact on social networking Shah, Asadullah Shaikh, Muniba QA75 Electronic computers. Computer science QA76 Computer software Social networking is unquestionably one of the most vital and influential aspect of today’s society. Social networking has been in use in various forms such as prodigy an interactive personal service, GEnie and CompuServe are known to be the early social networks. This paper provides an analysis of facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter and MySpace, all current, interactive social networks. The data has been collected from secondary sources. The data has been analyzed and compared for its user base and growth since their existence and also gender base users for various age groups. The analysis of data indicate some useful and new insights such as, the facebook is the most popular network having the highest number of users. LinkedIn network, in the age groups between 34 to 45 years having the highest number of users. Interestingly LinkedIn, in gender base analysis, for the age groups of 34-45 numbered less than male users. This indicate that male professional out number than female users. Overall findings show that female users are 66% and rest 34% are male users for all four social networks that were analyzed in this research work. 2013 Proceeding Paper PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://irep.iium.edu.my/31193/1/Table_of_Content.pdf application/pdf en http://irep.iium.edu.my/31193/2/14.pdf Shah, Asadullah and Shaikh, Muniba (2013) 10 c’s of social networking, interconnections and the impact on social networking. In: The 4th International Conference on Information & Communication Technology for the Muslim World (ICT4M), 25-27 Mar 2013, Rabat, Moroco. |
| spellingShingle | QA75 Electronic computers. Computer science QA76 Computer software Shah, Asadullah Shaikh, Muniba 10 c’s of social networking, interconnections and the impact on social networking |
| title | 10 c’s of social networking, interconnections and
the impact on social networking |
| title_full | 10 c’s of social networking, interconnections and
the impact on social networking |
| title_fullStr | 10 c’s of social networking, interconnections and
the impact on social networking |
| title_full_unstemmed | 10 c’s of social networking, interconnections and
the impact on social networking |
| title_short | 10 c’s of social networking, interconnections and
the impact on social networking |
| title_sort | 10 c’s of social networking, interconnections and
the impact on social networking |
| topic | QA75 Electronic computers. Computer science QA76 Computer software |
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