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What is 'Social Networking'

Social networking is the use of internet-based social media programs to make connections with friends, family, classmates, customers and clients. Social networking can occur for social purposes, business purposes or both through sites such as Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Classmates.com and Yelp. Social networking is also a significant target area for marketers seeking to engage users.

Marketers use social networking for improving conversion rates. Building a following provides access to and interaction with new, recent and old customers. Sharing blog posts, images, videos or comments on social media allows followers to react, visit the companys website and become customers.

Customers may compliment the companys offerings and encourage others to buy the products or services. The more customers are talking about a company on social networking, the more valuable the brand authority becomes. As a brand grows stronger, more sales result.

Increased company posts rank the company higher in search engines. This helps establish a brand as legitimate, credible and trustworthy.

A company may use social networking to demonstrate its customer service level and enrich its relationships with consumers. For example, if a customer complains about a product or service on Twitter, the company may address the issue immediately, apologize, and take action to make it right.

Although social networking itself is free, building and maintaining a company profile takes hours each week. Costs for those hours add up quickly. In addition, businesses need many followers before a social media marketing campaign starts generating a positive return on investment (ROI). For example, submitting a post to 15 followers does not have the same effect as submitting the post to 15,000 followers.

Because every business is unique and has a different target demographic, history and competitive marketplace, no single marketing strategy works for every business. The fact that social networking is constantly evolving also makes keeping up with changes challenging and influences a companys marketing success rate.

Because social networking companies want businesses paying for advertising, companies often restrict the amount of reach businesses may receive through unpaid posts. For example, if a company has 500 followers, followers may not all receive the same post.

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February 22, 2016

By Jacob Poushter

Once online, people in emerging and developing nations are hungry for social interaction. Comparatively fewer online adults in advanced economies say they use social networks, though half or more still report using social media in these countries. It is important to note that while internet users in emerging and developing economies are more likely to use social networks, access rates are lower in many of these nations; as a result, many people are still left out of the social networking experience. But in most of the countries surveyed, Millennials are more likely to use social media.

Across the 40 countries surveyed, a median of 76% of internet users say that they use social networks, which include Facebook and Twitter in all countries (except for Twitter in China), plus other popular country-specific social networks.

Unlike overall internet access, Social networking is most prevalent among online adults in Jordan (90% of internet users), Indonesia (89%), thePhilippines (88%), Venezuela (88%) and Turkey (87%). But majorities of internet users in every emerging and developing nation surveyed, Pakistan excepted, say they use social networks.Comparatively fewer online adults in rich economies say they use social networks, but because internet access is greater in many of these countries, overall social media usage based on total adult population is more mixed. Still, 76% of online Israelis, 73% of online Canadians and 71% of online Americans say they use social networking sites. But only around half of online adults in Japan (51%) and Germany (50%) say the same.

Between 2013 and 2015, there has been some upward movement in the percentage of people who access social networks across many emerging countries. This is especially the case in China, where 63% of internet users report using social networking in 2015, up from 48% in 2013. Elsewhere the change has been less dramatic or no change has occurred. But because internet access and reported smartphone ownership rates have increased in most of these nations, more people are using social networks even as the proportion of internet users who say they do so has not changed dramatically, if at all.

As with internet usage and reported smartphone ownership, There is a significant age gap on social networking among internet users in 30 of the 40 countries surveyed. And this age gap is seen in developed and developing countries alike.

For example, 81% of online Germans ages 18-34 say they use social networking, versus only 39% of older online Germans. And 83% of young French internet users are social networkers, versus 42% among older internet users. Large age gaps also appear in Vietnam (+37), Poland (+35) and Japan (+35). It should be noted that, based on total population, the gap in social media use between older and younger generations is even larger because more young people in all of the countries surveyed are online to begin with. But even among active internet users, social networking is more common among global youths.

In addition to age, there are also differences on social networking use among online adults by education. However, significant gaps on education are not as common for social networking as they are for overall internet access and smartphone ownership. In 18 countries with large enough sample sizes for analysis, internet users with more education are significantly more likely to use social networking sites compared with less educated online adults. The education gaps are particularly large in Lebanon (+30) and China (+26).

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Enlarge / These Miis look remarkably happy about the destruction of their gathering place...

On November 7, another piece of Nintendo's short online history will go away forever. That's when Miiverse, the artwork and message sharing service embedded into many Wii U games, will be shutting down because, as Nintendo puts it, "among other reasons, many users are shifting to social networking services." While users can request an archive of their own Miiverse posts and drawings, the millions of memes, bad jokes, incisive game criticism, and more currently hosted on Miiverse will be removed from Nintendo's public servers in a few months (some features of certain Wii U games will also be impacted, as detailed in this FAQ).

That massive purge of player-created data wasn't acceptable to professional Web developer Tim Miller. Shortly after Nintendo announced the Miiverse shutdown last week, Miller started up an effort to permanently archive the network's public contents, complete with a GitHub page and the support of the Web preservationists at Archive Team.

"Any time a social network goes down, we lose a ton of data," Miller told Ars in an IRC chat. "Part of history, our culture, is lost. In Miiverse, especially in the art section, you can see people really investing a lot of their time and energy in it. And being able to save that for others to see and experience is extremely important.

"Just look at the people still making Splatoon art, right now, even though it's going away in a few months," he continued. "It's clear some people out there care about it, and preserving this data would be [a] great thing for all. It's important to remember that, when you give your data to companies like this, they can just as easily throw it away. And with that, so goes years of history."

While Miller says he understands why Nintendo is shutting down Miiverse in the face of other, broader social networks, he's not happy with the way the company is handling all the user-created data it has accumulated in the last few years. "Right now, Nintendo is going 'Remember to click this button, and we'll give you a zip at some point, now it's your problem,'" he told Ars. "To me, that's a giant 'fuckyou.' At least it's better than other companies that just close up shop and don't announce it, but they could do better."

Enlarge / Wonderful dot-art like this is part of what the Miiverse preservation effort is trying to save.The Miiverse archiving effort is still in its early days. Because Miiverse has no public API, the team is still figuring out how to parse Miiverse URLs to get at all the network's public data through HTML scraping. Once that's done, Miller and other volunteers will set up VM scripts that can crowdsource the downloading and processing effort through Archive Team's Warrior tool.

So far, the team has identified more than 2 million distinct Miiverse users by following the trail of friends lists. While some of those users hide part of their profiles behind privacy settings, the vast majority of the posts themselves are public, Miller says.

It'll be a bit of a race to scrape the millions of published Miiverse posts and drawings from all those users before the November 7 shutdown, but Miller is confident that it's possible with Archive Team's resources. After that, Miller says he wants to organize it all into a database and maybe build a public website so people can search through the Miiverse archive at their leisure.

It's not the first time Nintendo has relied on the public to maintain shuttered portions of its online legacy. After Nintendo shut down its Wii and DS multiplayer servers in 2014, hackers started work on their own tools that can replicate that gameplay on private servers.

Around the industry, though, publishers without much care for preservation are dooming to extinction many games that exist solely as digital downloads. Earlier this year Nintendo shut down the DSiWare shop on original DS hardware (though most of those games continue to be available through the 3DS line). Last year, Sony shut down PlayStation Mobile, cutting off access to plenty of great Vita titles from smaller indie publishers.

Xbox Live's Indie Games program will fully shut down later this year, leavingquite a few hidden gemswithout an online home. And Apple has begun the process of culling "problematic and abandoned" older games from the App Store, continuing a process of game removalalready started by many iOS game publishers themselves.

Saving all of those titles (or even a worthwhile subset) will be a gargantuan job for current and future gaming historians. For now, though, it's nice to see a coordinated effort to save the public history of Nintendo's first social network.

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