SOCIAL MEDIA- The Great Effect it has on the People and the Nations Image

                                     

According to Wikipedia Social media refers to interaction among people in which they create, share, and/or exchange information and ideas in virtual communities and networks. Andreas Kaplan and Michael Haenlein define social media as "a group of Internet-based applications that build on the ideological and technological foundations of Web 2.0, and that allow the creation and exchange of user-generated content." Furthermore, social media depend on mobile and web-based technologies to create highly interactive platforms through which individuals and communities share, co-create, discuss, and modify user-generated content. They introduce substantial and pervasive changes to communication between organizations, communities, and individuals.

 
In Essence, Social Media is a way of communicating and passing Information online which necessarily doesn’t have to be Relevant or Meaningful to the Recipients..

NIGERIA -With a population of 167 million and 56 million internet users as at December 2012, Nigeria is the biggest internet market in Africa. Of the 115 million mobile telephone subscribers in the country, 35 million use their handheld devices to access internet data services.

Between 2000 and 2012, internet penetration grew from a paltry 0.06 percent to 34 percent, and there are indications that this trend will continue well into 2020.

Nigeria will remain the largest internet market on the continent in the near future because it has a large youth population (one-third of the population is between the 10-24 years age bracket) and a growing middle class estimated at 23 percent (appx. 39 million) of the population by Renaissance Capital in 2011. Nigeria has a fast-growing number of the two classes which traditionally drive internet usage around the world.

 

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In Nigeria, there is a draught in a comprehensive attempt to profile Nigeria’s online users and to give a description of what they do online, where they do it, what devices they use to access the internet, and the factors which affect what they do online at any particular time.- BusinessDay Research and Intelligence Unit (BRIU)..

 

Nigeria as a Developing country is being Greatly affected by the Mass use of Social media by its Citizens as a way to potray the Ongoings in the Country, Some people wait just to get a little information and listen to Rumours and are quick to post them online either via Facebook, Twitter or other popular social networks..

 

According to Fatima Mohammed Gambo, The usage of the social media in Nigeria is characterized by mixed feelings. There have been several calls for the establishment of a framework for the regulation of the Internet. Some schools of thought insist that it is a medium of extending freedom of speech to a lot of individuals that wouldn’t have had it. At the middle of this opposing ideologies, are the group of people that do not have access to, nor appreciate the value of social media and the various to which they can be put.

 

The Recent Bill Withdrawn that was to see  that Social Media Critics  be sentence to 7 years imprisonment shouldn't have been totally withdrawn but amended, so as to stop People who are quick to go online saying Bad things about the Country to desist from it..

 

I hope you all share the same views with Me