What are the most significant things I have learned during this session
- Between the periods of 1996 and 2016, social media usage grew from 250,000 to 80,000,000 sites.
- Half of the World’s twitters are Americans.
- The transition from web 1.0 (the read) to 2.0 (the read and write) and still evolving to web 3.0 where users can decide their contents.
- Statistics on the volumes of users on Facebook, YouTube Flickr and Twitter.
- A total of 2.4 billion smartphone users and an established internet market hitting 3.1 billion 2015.
- Unborn children, infants and toddlers already have their birth images uploaded on social media by their parents.
- Demographics of Countries’ population and the steady growth of internet users with China and the United States leading the chart shows the internet market is highly established.
- Social media presence is important for business as it attracts more customers than other forms of advertising.
- Business blogs are excellent means to share and distribute knowledge as messages are shared and re-posted and this goes on continuously
- Businesses should care about social media users and contents
What questions remain uppermost in my mind?
- Where was the world before the advent of the internet and social media?
- How will businesses stop the spread of fake news on social media and what measures will be put in place to mitigate this happening with Web 3.0?
- How can the social media be made liable for unsolicited adverts and pop-ups and restrict access to only subscribers?
- Social media companies should be made to pay taxes to Countries where their media and contents used, even if they do not have operational offices in those locations.
- The possibility of social media companies to be made liable for menace such as internet bullying, child pornography and tutorials that teaches how to make guns, bombs and other dangerous weapons.
- How will export control and data migration be monitored to regulate the contents from overseas
Is there anything else I do not understand?
- How web 3.0 will read users mind acting as their Personal assistants
