Social Media Analysis

What do you know about social media?  What if I told you that links about sex are shared on Facebook more than any other type of content? Or that 25% of Facebook users don’t bother with any kind of privacy control?  In 2011, “liking” drugs on Facebook was up 1,131 percent. And while its monthly active users has jumped to over one billion in 2012, 52 percent of students reported being cyberbullied on the social network. (source: mediabistro)

An average Facebook users has 130 friends. (source: AllTwitter) Monthly active users now total nearly 850 million. (source: Jeff Bullas) There are 175 million tweets sent from Twitter every day in 2012. (source: Infographics Labs) 50 percent of Twitter users are using the social network via mobile. (source: Microsoft tag) In August 2012, Instagram hit 80 million users and counting. (source: Visual.ly) In August 2012, Instagram had an average of 7.3 million daily active users. (source: All Things D)

For a nominal fee, we will provide a comprehensive social media analysis of your child’s social media accounts and provide analysis of five individuals in their circle of friends.  The report will contain a security analysis and a grade determining if there are security issues that you as a parent should be concerned with, as well as other issues such as drug use, friends’ drug or alcohol use and parties, etc.

General social media and Internet stats

• 40 % of accounts and 8% of messages on social media sites are spam
• 91% of online adults use social media regularly
• YouTube users watch more than 3 billion hours of video per month
• About 1 in 3 blogger are moms/mums (had to cater to both our American and British/AU audience there J) (source: Hubspot)
• There are more devices connected to the Internet than there are people on Earth (source: AllTwitter)
• 24% of people have missed witnessing important moments because they are too busy trying to write about them on social networks
• 83% of people believe platforms like Twitter and Facebook help them make new friends
• 25% of people believe social networks have boosted their confidence
• 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
• 40% of people spend more time socializing online than they do face-to-face (source: AllTwitter)
• Every minute of the day:
  • 100,000 tweets are sent
  • 684,478 pieces of content are shared on Facebook
  • 2 million search queries are made on google
  • 48 hours of video are uploaded to YouTube
  • 47,000 apps are downloaded from the App Store
  • 3,600 photos are shared on Instagram
  • 571 websites are created
  • $272,000 is spent by consumers online (source: AllTwitter)
• Internet users spend 22.5% of their online time social networking
• The web contains more than 8 billion pages

Purchase a social media analysis for your child, to include 5 of their friends in comprehensive report. We also have a monthly monitoring family package.