Most Used Social Media Platforms

According to the most used social media platforms in the 4th Quarter 2019 report, Facebook is the first with 2.41 billion users. The second most used social media platform, Youtube (2 billion users), is followed by WhatsApp.

While the number of social media users around the world was calculated as 3.6 billion according to the data in 2020, it is estimated that this number will increase to 4.41 billion by 2025.

It is possible to talk about social media followers with more than one psychology. We can separate the first group as listeners. Although this group is not very active on social media, when we think of it as an observer, they are aware of everything. It is possible to separate the following groups into activists, spam and trolls.

Online entertainment permits people to stay in contact with acquaintances and more distant family for example Facebook is a good example of this. Certain individuals will utilize different web-based entertainment applications to arrange and track down profession potential open doors, associate with individuals across the globe with similar interests, and offer their own contemplations, sentiments, and experiences on the web.

When we examine the age range of the people who use social media, we observe that the middle age group (30–49) is the section that uses social media the most (82%).

From recent research, while the group with a higher age range (50–64) follows it (69%), the group with the least social media coverage is the elderly (+65), whom we cannot say are very good with technology (40%). This means journalists could utilise these platforms in order to publish news and blogs.