Being the most popular form of CMC, approximately 294 billion messages are sent per day, which means more than 2.8 million emails are sent every second and some 90 trillion emails are sent per year, (2010). There is a long list of positive things to say about electronic mail as a form of communication. Used by friends, family, colleagues and businesses, it is a fast way of sending text-based messages. As well as this, emails allow you to forward pictures, documents and music to anyone with an email address and access to the Internet. You can communicate not just across cities, or countries, but also across international boarders.
Industry sales of children and juvenile books for 2009 were $3.2 billion (AAP, 2009). Since the staff and employees are X and Y’ers with young families, adding these titles to the product portfolio is a sound strategic move. The demographics give CanGo insight into the most popular titles and the capital expenditure for additional space is addressed by the ASRS systems. While hardcopy book sales declined in 2009, sales of e-books increased. In fact there are 500,000 book titles available for electronic readers and according to the AAP e-book sales increased by 176% in 2009 and Audio book sales totaled $192 million (AAP, 2009) making the addition of e-books and Audio books to their portfolio a logical strategic move.
The advertising revenue associated with Facebook and other Social media is expected to generate approximately $8.3 billion dollars annually by 2015. Significantly, according to one survey, 81% of companies have implemented (or plan to implement) social networking in order to enhance their exposure. Seventy-three percent of small and medium businesses reportedly employ social media for marketing purposes.” (The Legal Implications of Social Networking: The Basics (Part One) By David Navetta on June 11, 2011Posted in ECPA, Social Networking) Facebook is one of the leading social media applications available on the web. It attracts all types of people from different ages and nationalities due to the growth of its reputation and amount of members. It appeals to individual who seek to locate family and friends.
Text speak saves time and shortens text length. In preparation and sending messages it reduces costs.... Some of the negative aspects of text speak are that.... Whether text speak eventually becomes the standard.... Over the past ten to fifteen years, there has been a major change in the way people communicate to each other due to the development of the internet. Because of this, there has been a massive effect on the amount of socialising between friends and family; using technology in online social messaging websites such as Bebo, MSN, Facebook and many more.
Web-based communication has even managed to change our spoken conversation, with acronyms such as, lol (laugh out loud) that originally evolved from web-based communication being used in spoken conversation. The internet has dramatically changed the way we communicate with more people communicating via the internet than ever before. Social networking sites such as Facebook have roughly 800million accounts created, half of which are used daily. Over spoken conversation, the internet has became the main way teenagers tend to communicate, using sites such as, Facebook, Twitter, by texting, or by instant messaging. Some people from the older generations may look down on web-based communication, and disagree with it.
With all the advantages of moving to the internet the online community continues to grow. Of course you can still do all your banking at the bank or go to the store to buy stuff, but times are changing. 40% of the Bank of America customers use the Online only account that charges a fee if you want to use the physical bank. With the way things are going our entire society could go completely online. With people relying on the internet for their everyday lives its no wonder that to some people think that internet should be considered a human right.
Our culture is changing; every day more people utilize cybernetic ways to communicate which reduces the quality of our interaction. On her essay, “Sex, Lies and Conversation”, Deborah Tannen points out that intimacy is the base of relationships, but how can intimacy exist if our communication levels these days do not even involve having a face to face conversation. Since the Internet and computers became more affordable, more people are becoming part of the cybernetic world. According to Wikipedia, there are over 500 million users on the most popular social networking websites, more than half of them are under 25. This means that most of the young members of our society are growing accustomed to a different kind of communication, perhaps one of less quality.
“High-speed Internet has had the greatest technological impact on society over the past decade and is the technology most people say they cannot live without, according to a new poll” (Reuters, 2010, para. 1). The Internet has evolved so much that most humans cannot function without it. In connection with the Internet come tools that are used by professionals. Many professionals stay connected with smart phones.
The number of Facebook users is twice more than the USA population and over 5 million of them are under 10 years; every second, a video on YouTube is uploaded; Facebook users spent 1.85 billion dollars on virtual credits last year (Frankenberry, A. 2016). All these large numbers are proof of the fact that social media has taken its place in our lives and eventually influence us. Therefore, People should be more aware of the negative effects of social media on adolescents, on health, and on society. The first reason why people should be more aware of their use of social media is because it affects adolescents in different ways.
According to the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) (2011), more than 2 million people have access to the Internet by March 2011. This number of the Internet users is over a third of the world’s population. It shows the important reliance of the Internet to our society. In addition, the number of people who access the Internet rapidly rises every year. As a result, according to Barney Warf (2010), a professor in the Geography department at the University of Kansas, the widely expanded use of Internet access has been controlled and limited by the government in several regions according to politics, religion, security, lese-majesty, and