The real challenge of social media is creating growth of present and future opportunities. Social media takes too much time away from the real world. Some people care more about there online/social life than their friends and family in their real life. With social media creating all these apps and products, people are becoming more and more sucked into their social life.
One of the most common social media site is Facebook. People spend over 500 billion minutes per month on Facebook. More than 25 billion pieces of content (web links, news stories, blog posts, notes, photo albums, ect.) is shared each month. More than 100 million active users currently accessing Facebook are doing it through their mobile devices. People that access Facebook via mobile device are moe active than non-mobile device users.
Another common site in the world of social media would be Twitter. Twitter gets more than 300,000 new users each day. There are currently more than 200 million users on Twitter. Over 60% of Twitter users are outside the U.S. More than one third of Twitter users access the app or website via their mobile device.
What social media sites are you involved in?