CEN3101

Introduction

Introduction
Social media is an internet-based form of communication. Social media platforms allow users to have conversations, share information and create web content. There are many forms of social media, including blogs, micro-blogs, wikis, social networking sites, photo-sharing sites, instant messaging, video-sharing sites, podcasts, widgets, virtual worlds, and more.
People use social media to share information and make connections. On a personal level, social media allows you to communicate with friends and family, learn new things, develop your interests, and be entertained. On a professional level, you can use social media to broaden your knowledge in a particular field and build your professional network by connecting with other professionals in your industry. At the company level, social media allows you to have a conversation with your audience, gain customer feedback, and elevate your brand.

Task

One topics : Popularity of using applications in Thailand

 A comparison each year of the most popular social media  in Thailand. 
What are the most popular social media  in Thailand?

 
Your opinion  on each topic 

Facebook is a social networking site that allows people from around the world to network with friends, companies and organizations. Departments looking to build overall brand awareness should consider using Facebook. UCM maintains the USF Facebook Page, and frequently posts content, including videos, photo albums, event listings, links to news stories and more.

- Instagram is a social networking site that allows users to share pictures and short videos using their mobile device. UCM maintains the USF Instagram account and posts campus scenes, current events and more.

- Twitter is a micro-blogging site that allows people to post updates in 140 characters or less. Departments looking to engage their audience at a high frequency and have the resources to respond promptly should consider using Twitter. UCM maintains the USF Twitter Feed, and frequently posts information about campus events, university research, student accomplishments, USF news stories and more.

 -LINE is an application that provides Messaging services with Voice Over IP, allowing users to create chat groups, send text messages, images, video clips, or even voice phone calls. The information that is sent is totally free. Now LINE is available in iOS, Android, Windows Phone, PC and BlackBerry operating systems.

LINE features include text messaging, voice chat, background change, background, chat room, group chat, official LINE, and sticker submissions.

Line had 33 million users growth of  in  2015 , 
had  41 million users growth of  in 2016 
and had  41 million users growth of  in 2017.

 Facebook had 41 million users growth of  in  2015 .
had  47 million users growth of  in 2016
and had  49  million users growth of  in 2017.

Instagram  had 7.8 million users growth of  in  2015 ,
had  11 million users growth of  in 2016
and had  13  million users growth of  in 2017.

  Twitter  had 5.3 million users growth of  in  2015, 
had  10.1  million users growth of  in 2016
and had  12 million users growth of  in 2017.

Process

Process
• Visit website below
• Find information and statistics about popularity of using aplication in Thailand : facebook, instagram, twitter and line
• Compare statistics of popularity of using aplication in Thailand since 2016-2018
• Using the statistics to make a bar graph on Microsoft Excel
• Find more infamation about popular aplication in thailand
• Write with a minimum of 5 sentences per paragraph.
   - Write 1st paragraph of What are the most popular social     media in Thailand?
   - Write 2nd paragraph of your opinion on each topic
• Answer the question

Source:
https://thestandard.co/thailand-social-media-statistics-2017/ and https://www.am2bmarketing.co.th/content-marketing-article/social-media-… : seach for information of using application in Thailand on 2017
https://www.twfdigital.com/blog/2018/09/thailandline-stats-and-behaviou… : seach for information of using line in Thailand on 2018
https://positioningmag.com/1159478 : seach for information of using application in Thailand on 2016

Questions

1.Communica____ (N.)

2.Antonym of “Awareness”.

3.In your opinion , what is social media ?

4.Benefits of social media. (5items)

5.Tell about disadvantages of social media. (5items)

6.People use social media to…?

7.What is the most popular social media in the 2016 ?

8. What is the least popular social media in the 2016– 2018 ?

9.How many characters that we can post on twitter ?

10.What is Instagram ?

Evaluation

 

Evaluation
1 = Limited
2 = Developing
3 = Proficient
4 = Exemplary
Total score = 40
* Student must reach the “Proficient” level in at least 6 areas.

 

Conclusion

 

Conclusion
Social media is a really convenient and important communicate network for all the people nowadays. We can also share our ideas so quickly so that all the things could develop so fast because people could tell us their ideas and we could improve it immediately. We could also learn new things on social media by watching or reading the things that people shared onto the social media. People could also sell things on social media freely which could reduce the expenditure of advertisements.

There are more advantages for using social media,however, there is always advantages and disadvantages for a thing. As social media is too convenient for people, almost most of them don't even have to 'speak out' to communicate with people. No longer, people will lost their communication skills. The more serious problem is many people utilized the power of social media and used it to bully someone. The power of social media is also same as the one in real life. A little of them used social media to do things that against the law.

Social media changed our life so much. Our life became more convenient because social media is a very useful tool for us in 21st century, it could help us to improve our life. However, we have to aware of how we use them. If we could use the social media smartly, having social media will become a good change for us.