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Facebook, Instagram, and then pinterest were the top three social media sites in 2021 to 2022. Facebook is a social media site used primarily for business, networking, and personal use. People use it for businesses to market themselves, sell their products and gain popularity. People use it for personal use to post about their lives, share stuff to family and friends. Demographics are the population/statistics of certain groups within a community. It is important to know demographics based on who you are trying to attract; if your business is marketed to younger generations, than you’d want to take your business primarily to Instagram as the demographic of younger people is higher there. In Facebook for example, the demographic you will typically see is older, married women, while Instagram is typically younger, single women. It has been found that PER DAY, Instagram users spend 29 minutes on the social media site daily. The current fastest growing social media network is TikTok. It became really popular within teenagers and preteens, and young adults saw that it was popular amongst young people so in a way to hold onto their youth, they joined; soon middle-aged adults joined and so on and so forth. Most people access these sites through their phones out of convenience.

Source

https://www.broadbandsearch.net/blog/average-daily-time-on-social-media#:~:text=Instagram%2C%20which%20Facebook%20owns%2C%20remains,a%20day%20on%20the%20platform.

Virtual Reality is a relatively new form of technology that tracks your movement and eye coordination to simulate a 3D experience, to look around yourself and see a much larger, virtual world through a headset. Through my own use of VR, I have found that because of the large bandwidth that the VR headset requires, it needs 5G to be able to function to its best capacity. There is a lot of discourse about who invented the first Virtual Reality Console/simulator, but the one who can be traced easiest would most likely be Jaren Lanier in the mid-1980’s, developing the goggles and gloves needed to create the first simulation. Virtual Reality solves several problems, one being for those that struggle socially; virtual reality has helped thousands reach out into simulated parks, chatrooms and such to create connections with those that they may not be able to do in person due to social inabilities. Another thing that VR has helped in the past few years is with businesses; with the Coronavirus shutting down thousands of businesses, VR creates a new means of having sit-down meetings with employees that may not be able to have happened had VR not been around. A bigger drawback that easily comes with VR is a loss of touch with reality; spending so much time in a simulated world, going out and having a busy life when in all reality you are sitting in your rooms for hours on end. Unlike other gaming consoles, like Play Station or XBOX, you cannot look away and see your room; when you have the headset on, all you can see is the screen around you. It can cause a HUGE disconnection from reality. In the past few years, VR technology has gained lots of popularity, taking people away from real world interactions and replacing them with virtual, simulated ones.

One of the popular apps I will be referencing is Instagram. Instagram is a social media app used to share your life with the world, showcase your business and products in a more current way, create inspirational posts to lift others up, create political campaigns and so much more. The most popular revenue streams that publishers can use would probably be photo ads; ads that appear in users feed/explore page with direct links to the publishers shop. Another common way to gain money is through donations on your story, or links in your biography that lead to the publishers shop/means of making money. To get the most out of this app, the best thing I can recommend is posting things that follow current trends, no matter what your product/content revolves around, make it follow a certain trend or aesthetic to appeal to the larger, public eye amongst Instagram. Gain a following through that trend, and once your following starts to get larger and you have a consistent audience, begin showcasing your work with prices alongside them; now that your following is large enough and your work appeals to the community, you are more likely to get more out of the app.

The other more popular app I will be referring to is Twitch. Twitch is a video streaming app for creators to stream themselves doing podcasts, playing popular video games, doing stunts, and an endless amount of other things. The target audience for Twitch users is people of both genders, typically ranging between the teenagers to young adults; in all honesty though, Twitch is and can be used by people of all ages. Revenue is typically made through streams; the more streams a streamer gets on Twitch, the more money they make. People make donations throughout the streams, which a small portion gets taken by Twitch and then the rest goes on to the streamer. To get a larger amount of viewers, the best advice that can be given is make yourself stand out, people like to watch people that are different from the rest, following more obscure trends.

A very blatant example of ‘bad behavior’ in the online space would be of a famous youtuber, Eugenia Cooney. Eugenia Cooney is a twenty eight year old American woman who runs a YouTube account where she posts makeup tutorials, outfit hauls, trying on new clothes and testing products for her predominantly preteen/teenage girl audience. Something that had always stood out about her was how thin she has always been, in the beginning of her career she was fairly skinny, but as the years went on she slowly lost more and more weight. This never appeared extremely concerning until she drastically lost weight through 2018. Her viewers begged her to get help, but she refused, until in February 2019 her friends staged an intervention for her, ending with her going into hiatus and checking into a hospital, to then a rehabilitation center. She spent several months in rehab and away from social media. A lot of theories went on while she had been gone, one being that she may have died BECAUSE of how bad her disorder had gotten. When she returned, she did several interviews with other youtubers talking about her experiences regarding rehab, mentioning her struggles with eating disorders and her goals to become better, not only for herself but for her audience. This interview helped her damaged reputation heal, people began to see her in a new light as she expressed her want to change. She kept up to this promise for the beginning months online, but after being back for a while things soon turned for the worst. She started losing weight in a drastic amount of time again, began posting herself in smaller and smaller outfits as she lost more and more weight. She would go on streams and attempt to lift small objects to show her viewers how weak she had gotten. She would go on Instagram and compared her thinning body to skeleton props. Her influence online had and has become detrimental, with challenges to try to look like her resurfacing on and off within young, preteen girls. People on streams will explain to her how her influence on her audience is damaging, how she corrupts younger boys and girls into believing that how she acts and what she is doing to her body is okay, but she has expressed over and over that she simply does not care.

A lesson we can learn from what has happened with Eugenia Cooney is to be aware of the influence you leave, the damage you can do to those that look up to you. To try to leave a positive impact on those around you.

https://thewaltenarchives.fandom.com/wiki/The_Walten_Files

The information is decently recent, being completely updated from the most recent episode, being in 2020. It is up to date which is what is most important. The people posting the information are from the fanbase built around the show, making them not a reliable source as they are not the creators. Although there is no voting options on the posts, there is a very aggressive comment section underneath the plot breakdown and each of the characters pages/descriptions for people to discuss their opinions. The quality of the website/information is very well organized, especially considering it is made from the fanbase. They have the information surrounding the show separated into several different categories, making it easy to follow and find what I need. Because I am a fan of this show/series, I will be using this information often in the future.

https://blog.nobleknits.com/blog/balaclava-crochet-patterns

There is no information regarding the date this website was created, but the information and content of the site is current in regards to trends and seems to be made within the past few years. The poster/creator of the site is known for crochet, making them a reliable source when it comes to seeking new crochet patterns. Although they do not have a means to vote up or down on their patterns, if you scroll to the bottom of the page they do have a comment section. So far, no one has used the comment section, but it is still there if needed. The information is extremely well written and clear, from describing the size of the hook you need for each pattern to the type of yarn recommended. This is 100% a resource I would recommend and will be using in the future, the instructions are extremely clear, and with winter coming up they are extremely useful.

https://www.sparknotes.com/lit/the-perks-of-being-a-wallflower/summary/

The information is up to date, saying that it was produced in 2022 at the bottom of the page. The summary itself may be older, but it is not necessary for it to be more recent as it is a book summary. SparkNotes is a well-known source, being used for book sources often. Reading through the summary, their  knowledge over this book becomes more apparent as they go into detail about each of the characters. The downside to this website is a lack of gatekeeping mechanisms, no means to upvote or downvote, nor comment underneath each post/summary. On the brighter side, the information is extremely clear and well organized, going through the plot, onto the characters and descriptions for several different parts of the book. Although this resource is extremely well put together, a summary over a book is not a super needed item and I will most likely not be using this source again.

1. Today, do more people access the web using computers or mobile devices? Provide a resource that supports your answer.

Sources and studies have found that the web is accessed more regularly through computers, it would not be wrong to assume that this is so because there are so many apps on phones, most time spent on them is with texting and taking pictures while computers are typically ONLY used for the web. (https://www.broadbandsearch.net/blog/mobile-desktop-internet-usage-statistics)

2 . Who controls the World Wide Web? What is it made up of?

No one person ‘controls’ the World Wide web, but several companies help mandate it. (https://hbr.org/2016/06/who-controls-the-internet)

3. Who is Tim Berners Lee? What is he best known for?
Tim Berners-Lee is the creator of the World Wide Web, creating it back in 1989.

4. What is a blog? What is it used for?

A blog is a digital/online journal, typically used to spread information about a single topic, ran by an individual, group, or company.

5. What is a “responsive” website design?

A responsive web design is a design that is compatible among multiple devices, switching page sizes to be compatible with phones, tablets, and computers.

6. Why are “responsive” website designs necessary?

Responsive website designs are necessary for compatibility; it allows more people who lack certain devices typically necessary to view the website to be able to use it.

7. What is SEO, and why should website owners/managers be concerned with SEO?

SEO is short for Search Engine Optimization, meaning that it makes web traffic/the website you are using more efficient in it’s speed and it’s quality.

8. What is dynamic content?

Dynamic content is any optimization changes that the user wants to make to a site for their personal preferences, their data, and their behavior.

9. What is a content management system? You work with one, what is it’s name?

A content management system is any software that helps to create, manage and code websites.

10. What is a youtube channel? Who might want to start one?

A youtube channel is someones personal account on youtube, made for uploading, liking videos, and subscribing to other peoples channels. A person might start one as a career, a personal blog, a way to boost their career, and many other reasons.

Hello! My name is Elizabeth Trimble. I am a senior at Summit Highschool in Reynoldsburg, in the Encore Academy (art pathway). I love art, all different types of expression of it; I love music, playing electric guitar in my free time and cello for my school’s audition orchestra. I love sculpting, drawing, painting, sketching. I love baking, I love learning new cooking recipes. I love my friends, I love hanging out with them and going thrifting or on picnics  to our favorite parks. I love my dog; I have a miniature poodle named Tiny. I am happy to be here!