Social Media and my Internet use Homework Project! Activity #4

After looking at my friends and my Facebook page, I have noticed that out of everything that gets shared onto there walls that usually it's funny videos or vine's that are shared, things like people falling over or ranting about things they see on the internet. Occasionally you see music videos or remixes/mash up's of songs, once there was an old song from the 90's and someone had remixed it together with another song that'd just came out, the amount of friends that shared that was crazy. 

I believe that people share these types of media because it comes under the genre entertainment, people enjoy to see it on there walls, this could be because it makes them laugh and they enjoy watching it. Furthermore it could be that the song is new and they want people to hear it or they want their opinion. Even if it's an old song the friends that share it might just like the song in general, like when you hear a song from a long time ago so you share it and put " Who remembers this ?" or "This used to be my favourite song". Come to think about it I see that on my friends pages too. But who benefits from what my friends share ? The people that created the music or made the video, because they get credit from the viewers and views which gives a chance for that to grow out into further Social Media's and more shares = more views = more notice. If it was a funny video that had gone viral, like " Deez Nuts" or Andy Tate then the person that benefits from that would be that person themselves, they become famous or well known and from there anything could happen.

Sometimes you do see people post/share a campaign or petition, a couple of months ago everyone shared a petition on bringing back the Inbetweeners for either one more film, series or even just a special episode. People do share inspiring videos that make you think how lucky we are, or how seriously horrible others lives are. About how the young children in poverty starve and how we have everything and they have nothing. You might have seen the video where it shows how someone with money in China lives and someone in poverty in China lives, and by doing this it makes people think and sympathise. As well as benefiting the company appealing for the aid of public it's benefiting the people that live in poverty because money is being donated and given to them. This happens a lot and sometimes I have seen friends/followers cry over videos like these.

Finally, people share adverts to do with things that they want all the time, this could be a new pair of trainers they want, or some clothes they've ordered recently. I see this on my friends timelines on the occasion but I can't remember a time I've ever done that either. The shoes could be a new brand or new make which could benefit the Brand ( Nike ) ( Addidas ) because they are promoting there new shoe/clothing and because people follow the latest trend on Media and Social Life. The company probably know that by the person posting the photo other people will "follow the crowd" and get some too. Even if it's an old brand of shoe it will probably come back into fashion at one point so they are still at advantage.

I would like to finish by saying, all the benefits I have just described, are in some way also benefited just by Social Media alone, not just the people who share and post them.

Thanks.