I have come across and actively used this quote through my university experience. I am interested in tradition becoming digitalised and i also have a keen interest in socials medias influence on the public. I feel that because of my age i am apart of a social change when it comes to social media, since joining one of the most popular social media platforms (facebook) in 2008 , i have witnessed the site develop and expand .I still haven't made up my mind if i think the social media movement is a positive or negative thing. Unlike most other people my age i have limited myself to just the one social media platform and haven't joined the other popular platforms such as twitter , instagram and tumblre. I feel like this gives me an outside point of view when it comes to analysing the effect these social medias have on our behaviour and popular culture. Facebook which started out as a social site has now in my opinion has turned into a world wide stalking system where things that would usually be kept private becoming public. Like i have mentioned above I'm not sure if i think its a positive or negative thing , the media is full of story's related to facebooks pros and cons like on many occasions you have heard that people have lost there job through something there employer found on there Facebook but on the other hand people are getting noticed and employed though there on line profile daily . You can physically view the development and demise of different relationships , you can view peoples achievements , there experiences and also there everyday . Martin Par above as talked about the death of the Family Photo Album but as well as exploring the digitisation of this i would also like to explore where memorabilia , keep sakes and memory box's fit into being digitalised. Through the use of mobile phone photography , being able to add a location , tagging other people into your photos and statuses and general conversation does this illuminate the need for keepsakes and memorabilia because it is all accessible through your on line time lines?
To further Martins Parrs thoughts on the diditalisation of photographs and photo albums Marie Gautier has posted an interview with him and his thoughts online. I found the interview very interesting , i like to hear how different photographers work and also there motives behind sertain imagry but below i have put in the bits that i feel is very relevant to my subject matter.I feel like this text could relate to Susan Sontags theory's in On photography. I will be analysing this book at a later date thinking particullaly about Martin Parrs depiction of " The rules of Photography" and how he likes to break these conventions . Maybe whilst exploring memory boxs and didgital memorys i can take a leaf out of his book and start thinking unconventionally. See what i can depict and uncover about the reasons behind why or if we do collect miscellaneous objects to preserve a memory .
"I’m the antidote to propaganda":
A conversation with Martin Parr
Marie Gautier
"Most of the photographs we digest are a form of propaganda, so my job is to puncture that and to try and show it in a more personal way, almost based on reality although, as I said, I’m trying to exaggerate it. Let me give you two examples. One of how propaganda functions as a way of selling something. If you go to a supermarket to buy some food, you look at the packet and then you look at the food inside: they don’t ever look the same. It’s a basic lie. All packaging is a lie. Let me look at another example of propaganda where a concept is being sold. When we were trying to do family albums – now we’re doing it with phones – everyone is always smiling, everyone is always happy. When you bring up kids, the idea of a baby crying is something that happens all the time, it’s inevitable, but you would never have that on a photograph. You would always show the kids smiling. There’s a certain way to photograph, there are rules laid down to try and show that you have a perfect family. We are so governed by these rules that for example you’re allowed or even encouraged to take photographs at weddings – they are very positive – but you would be scorned upon if you took photos at a funeral. You never take a camera to a funeral, it’s disrespectful. It just shows you how programmed we are in our society about how we use photography. My job is to question all these assumptions and that’s why I’m a photographer. Even Facebook pictures are propaganda because everyone is always smiling. There are a million Facebook pictures loaded every day. People are smiling and they are with this friend or that friend… that’s boring! The only thing you’re allowed to do in Facebook is put more picture of you smiling with everyone you know." Martin Parr
Facebook the phenomenon
It is a widely known fact that facebook is a massive social media site but i just thought it would be interesting to get some more in-depth facts before exploring the subject further . I am actually astonished at some of the facts and the sheer amount of people globally that are actively involved in this phenomenon.The information below is something i gathered directly from www.Facebook.com but was last undated 8th August 2011 .
50 Facebook Facts and Figures
- 1 in every 13 people on Earth is on Facebook
- 35+ demographic represents more than 30% of the entire user base
- 71.2 % of all USA internet users are on Facebook
- In 20 minutes 1,000,000 links are shared on Facebook
- In 20 minutes 1,484,000 event invites are posted
- In 20 minutes 1,323,000 photos are tagged
- In 20 minutes 1,851,000 status updates are entered
- In 20 minutes 1.972 million friend requests are accepted
- In 20 minutes 2,716,000 photos are uploaded
- In 20 minutes 2,716,000 messages are sent
- In 20 minutes 10.2 million comments are posted
- In 20 minutes 1,587,000 wall posts are written
- 750 million photos were uploaded to Facebook over New Year’s weekend
- 48% of young Americans said they found out about news through Facebook
- 48% of 18 to 34 year olds check Facebook right when they wake up
- 50% of active users log on to Facebook in any given day
- Average user has 130 friends
- People spend over 700 billion minutes per month on Facebook
- There are over 900 million objects that people interact with (pages, groups, events and community pages)
- Average user is connected to 80 community pages, groups and events
- Average user creates 90 pieces of content each month
- More than 30 billion pieces of content (web links, news stories, blog posts, notes, photo albums, etc.) shared each month.
- More than 70 translations available on the site
- About 70% of Facebook users are outside the United States
- Over 300,000 users helped translate the site through the translations application
- Entrepreneurs and developers from more than 190 countries build with Facebook Platform
- People on Facebook install 20 million applications every day
- Every month, more than 250 million people engage with Facebook on external websites
- Since social plugins launched in April 2010, an average of 10,000 new websites integrate with Facebook every day
- More than 2.5 million websites have integrated with Facebook, including over 80 of comScore’s U.S. Top 100 websites and over half of comScore’s Global Top 100 websites
- There are more than 250 million active users currently accessing Facebook through their mobile devices
- People that use Facebook on their mobile devices are twice as active on Facebook than non-mobile users.
- There are more than 200 mobile operators in 60 countries working to deploy and promote Facebook mobile products
- Al Pacino’s face was on the original Facebook homepage
- One early Facebook function was a file sharing service
- The first “Work Networks” as well as the original educational networks included Apple and Microsoft
- The meaning of the term poke has never been defined
- There is an ‘App’ to see what’s on the Facebook cafe menu
- Mark Zuckerburg (CEO of Facebook) calls himself a “Harvard Graduate” when in fact he didn’t graduate (apparently his reply is that “there isn’t a setting for dropout”)
- Australian’s spend more time per month on Facebook than any other country at over 7 hours on average
- A Facebook employee hoodie sold for $4,000 on eBay
- Facebook was initially bank-rolled by Peter Thiel the co-founder of PayPal for $500,000
- It is the second biggest website by traffic behind Google (at the moment)
- Facebook is now valued at approximately $80 billion
- Facebook makes money through advertising and virtual products
- Facebook was almost shut down by a lawsuit by ConnectU who claimed that Zuckerburg stole the idea and Technology for Facebook (the issue was settled out of court)
- The USA has the largest Facebook user base with 155 million people which represents 23.6% of Facebook’s total users
- There is over 16,000,000 Facebook fan pages
- Texas Hold’em Poker is the most popular Facebook page with over 41 million fans
- More than 650 million active
After reading these statistics i was curious to see how much this has developed in the time that was posted and now in 2014. This below was the most up to date information i could find on the subject matter . I also find it interesting how they have compared Facebook user from 2008 ( when i first joined the on-line social media site ) and 2014. From 100 million users to 1.11 Billion in 6 years . I have also highlighted the facts that i find most thought provoking.
| Statistic Verification |
| Source: Facebook |
| Research Date: 1.1.2014 |
| Facebook is the largest online social network. Founded in February 2004 by Mark Zuckerberg and fellow Harvard students Eduardo Saverin, Andrew McCollum, Dustin Moskovitz and Chris Hughes. In 2008 Facebook had 100 million users and as of March 2013 has 1.11 Billion. Facebook filed for a $5 billion IPO on February 1st 2012 and valued the company at $104 billion. |
| Facebook Statistics | Data |
| Total number of monthly active Facebook users | 1,310,000,000 |
| Total number of mobile Facebook users | 680,000,000 |
| Increase in Facebook users from 2012 to 2013 | 22 % |
| Total number of minutes spent on Facebook each month | 640,000,000 |
| Percent of all Facebook users who log on in any given day | 48 % |
| Average time spent on Facebook per visit | 18 minutes |
| Total number of Facebook pages | 54,200,000 |
| Facebook Demographics | Data |
| Percent of 18-34 year olds who check Facebook when they wake up | 48 % |
| Percent of 18-34 year olds who check Facebook before they get out of bed | 28 % |
| Average number of friends per facebook user | 130 |
| Average number of pages, groups, and events a user is connected to | 80 |
| Average number of photos uploaded per day | 205 |
| Number of fake Facebook profiles | 81,000,000 |
| Global Facebook Reach Statistics | |
| Number of languages available on the Facebook site | 70 |
| Percent of Facebook users who are outside the United States | 75 % |
| Number of users who helped translate Facebook | 300,000 |
| Facebook Platform Statistics | |
| Average number of aps installed on Facebook each day | 20 million |
| Total number of apps and websites integrated with Facebook | 7 million |
| Every 20 Minutes on Facebook | |
| Links shared | 1 million |
| Friends requested | 2 million |
| Messages sent | 3 million |
| Facebook Company Statistics | Data |
| Total number of Facebook employees | 4,619 |
| Total 2012 Facebook revenue | $5,090,000,000 |
| Total 2013 Facebook revenue | $6,150,000,000 |
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