Analysis of SNS popularity from different perspectives among users

Social networking is unquestionably one of the most vital and influential aspect of today’s society. A great number of Social Networks (SNs) are available now a days and being used by the people all around the globe. This paper provides an analysis of four most popular interactive SNs that are,...

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Main Authors: Shaikh, Muniba, Dar, Humaira, Shah, Asadullah
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Language:English
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Published: 2013
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spelling iium-311352013-08-06T02:37:02Z http://irep.iium.edu.my/31135/ Analysis of SNS popularity from different perspectives among users Shaikh, Muniba Dar, Humaira Shah, Asadullah QA75 Electronic computers. Computer science Social networking is unquestionably one of the most vital and influential aspect of today’s society. A great number of Social Networks (SNs) are available now a days and being used by the people all around the globe. This paper provides an analysis of four most popular interactive SNs that are, Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter and MySpace according to different perspectives. The data has been collected from secondary sources that has been used in this paper. The data has been analyzed and compared by four different perspectives based on user traffic, age, gender, and education of the users. The analysis of data indicate some useful and new insights such as the Facebook is the most popular network having the highest number of users. LinkedIn network, in the age groups between 34 to 45 years having the highest number of users. Interestingly LinkedIn, for gender base analysis, for the age groups of 34-45, numbered less than male users. This indicate that male professional out number than female users for the same age groups (34-45). Overall findings show that female users are 66% and rest 34% are male users for all four social networks that were analyzed in this research work. 2013 Conference or Workshop Item PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://irep.iium.edu.my/31135/2/Table_of_Content.pdf application/pdf en http://irep.iium.edu.my/31135/1/118.pdf Shaikh, Muniba and Dar, Humaira and Shah, Asadullah (2013) Analysis of SNS popularity from different perspectives among users. In: The 4th International Conference on Information & Communication Technology for the Muslim World (ICT4M), 25-27 Mar 2013, Rabat, Moroco.
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Shaikh, Muniba
Dar, Humaira
Shah, Asadullah
Analysis of SNS popularity from different perspectives among users
description Social networking is unquestionably one of the most vital and influential aspect of today’s society. A great number of Social Networks (SNs) are available now a days and being used by the people all around the globe. This paper provides an analysis of four most popular interactive SNs that are, Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter and MySpace according to different perspectives. The data has been collected from secondary sources that has been used in this paper. The data has been analyzed and compared by four different perspectives based on user traffic, age, gender, and education of the users. The analysis of data indicate some useful and new insights such as the Facebook is the most popular network having the highest number of users. LinkedIn network, in the age groups between 34 to 45 years having the highest number of users. Interestingly LinkedIn, for gender base analysis, for the age groups of 34-45, numbered less than male users. This indicate that male professional out number than female users for the same age groups (34-45). Overall findings show that female users are 66% and rest 34% are male users for all four social networks that were analyzed in this research work.
format Conference or Workshop Item
author Shaikh, Muniba
Dar, Humaira
Shah, Asadullah
author_facet Shaikh, Muniba
Dar, Humaira
Shah, Asadullah
author_sort Shaikh, Muniba
title Analysis of SNS popularity from different perspectives among users
title_short Analysis of SNS popularity from different perspectives among users
title_full Analysis of SNS popularity from different perspectives among users
title_fullStr Analysis of SNS popularity from different perspectives among users
title_full_unstemmed Analysis of SNS popularity from different perspectives among users
title_sort analysis of sns popularity from different perspectives among users
publishDate 2013
url http://irep.iium.edu.my/31135/
http://irep.iium.edu.my/31135/2/Table_of_Content.pdf
http://irep.iium.edu.my/31135/1/118.pdf
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