Social Media- Preview

     Social Media use over the last few years grown rapidly.

     As of December 2013 there was 1.23 billion monthly Facebook users according to a report by PR

Newswire.
    There are 248 million monthly users on Twitter, according to about.twitter.com. 
    Instagram has 200 million active monthly users, according to its Website.
    According to a report by the Pew Internet & American Life Project, an initiative of the Pew Research Center, teens ages 12-17 years old and young adults ages 18-29 years old are the most likely to be online, both at 93 percent.
    In February of 2008 there were 65 percent of 12-17 year olds on online social networking sites. There are now 73 percent according to the Pew Internet report. 
     “Now, with low barriers to online participation and widespread adoption of mobile internet-connected devices students can seek and solicit help from their online social networks as well as readily share ideas and information,” assistant professor in the College of Education at Michigan State University Christine Greenhow said via email.