Quotes:
- “In this age, you must be relentlessly remarkable to stay relevant, if not you will be relegated.”
― Bernard Kelvin Clive - “Never presume to know a person based on the one dimensional window of the internet. A soul can’t be defined by critics, enemies or broken ties with family or friends. Neither can it be explained by posts or blogs that lack facial expressions, tone or insight into the person’s personality and intent. Until people “get that”, we will forever be a society that thinks Beautiful Mind was a spy movie and every stranger is really a friend on Facebook.”
― Shannon L. Alder - “A fixation with connecting with 'friends' online comes with the risk of disconnection with friends waiting for you to be present in the offline world.”
― Craig Hodges - “Time is ticking, and your online twinkling is limited.”
― Santosh Kalwar - “Social media inflames our already inflated view of self.”
― Mandy J. Hoffman
Statistics/facts:
- Users spend an average of 30 minutes per day on Facebook
- In 2012, Medical News Today reported on a study suggesting that Facebook use may feed anxiety and increase a person's feeling of inadequacy.A more recent study, led by social psychiatrist Ethan Cross of the University of Michigan, found that using Facebook may even make us miserable."On the surface, Facebook provides an invaluable resource for fulfilling the basic human need for social connection," says Kross. "But rather than enhance well-being, we found that Facebook use predicts the opposite result - it undermines it."
- In 2012, Anxiety UK conducted a survey on social media use and its effects on emotions. The survey found that 53% of participants said social media sites had changed their behaviour while 51% of these said the change had been negative.
- 24% of Americans and 28% of Brits have admitted to lying or exaggerating on a social network about what they have done and/or who they have met.
- Each day Facebook users spend 10.5 billion minutes (almost 20,000 years) online on the social network
Significant moments in history:
- February 15 1946- ENIAC first computer was developed.
- 1971- the first e-mail travels between two computers, one meter apart.
- April 4 1973- Martin Cooper of Motorola made the first handheld mobile phone call on a prototype DynaTAC model
- 1991- World Wide Web goes public
- 2003- Social networking and book marking sites were born
- 2009- Facebook hits 350 million users
- 2011- Social media became accessible from virtually anywhere
- 2012- Internet population became 2.4 billion users
People of Note:
- Steve Jobs- Co founder of apple inc.
- Martin Cooper- made the first hand held mobile phone call
- Bill Gates- founder of microsoft
- Mark Zuckerberg- founded 'thefacebook' in 2004
- Larry Page and Sergey Brin- founders of Google
Images/photos/maps/drawings/charts:
http://www.buzzfeed.com/robynwilder/this-short-film-will-make-you-think-twice-about-how-much-tim?sub=3220886_2893708#.rtQ50Lw9x
Inventions/objects/garments/artefacts:
- 1995- the first 'selfie stick' was created in Japan before the trend recently arose around 2013
- The first smartphone was developed by IBM and BellSouth, which came out to the public in 1993. 'Simon' had a touch screen that could access email and send faxes
- First apple iPod- 2001
- First amazon Kindle 'ebooks'- 2007
- First webcam-1991 invented by Cambridge University students to check the levels of coffee in another room (they were lazy)
Locations/environments/countries:
- Predominantly used more frequently in MEDC's e.g. UK, USA, Japan, China, Western Europe etc.
- Virtually everywhere- to be vague- due to the high level of accessibility
- Working environment- using social media to advertise and promote business success and development, or being distracted by social media when supposed to be working...
- Public- tourist environments
- Personal- scrolling when alone to kill time
