MONETIZING FRIENDSHIPThe capitalization of Social Media
Money trees is the perfect place for shade- Kendrick Lamar
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rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.
Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art... It has no survival value;
Quote by: C.S. LewisPhoto by: Johnson Space Center of the United States National Aeronautics and Space Administration - wikipedia commons
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To survive in a competitive environment
Social media sites must strive to become more profitable.
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The main asset of social media,
is FriendshipPhoto by: Brett Sayer - Flickr
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Facebook had 1.11 billion
Photo by: SEOPlanter - Flickr Fact from: https://newsroom.fb.com/
active users as of March 2013
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This represents 150 billion friend connections
Photo by: Kris Krug - Flickr Fact by: (May 2013 Update) By The Numbers: 32 Amazing Facebook Stats - Craig Smith
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Or an average of 141.5 friends per user
Photo by: Nono Fara - Flickr Fact by: (May 2013 Update) By The Numbers: 32 Amazing Facebook Stats - Craig Smith
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How does
Turn friendship into profit?
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By late 2007, just three years after it’s launch, Facebook had over 10 000 business pages
Photo by: Sean MacEntee - FlickrEdited by: Nick Rogers Stat by: Wikipedia fact page - Facebook
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Business pages interact with Facebook users
through “likes”
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If a user likes a company page, they get updates and news on the company / product
Photo by: Nick Rogers - Screen shot - Coca-cola Facebook page
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The page also
appears in
their friends’
news feeds
Photo by: Nick Rogers - Screen shot
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When friends of the user see it in their newsfeed they’re given the opportunity to
like the product themselves
Photo by: Sean MacEntee - Flickr
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If you like a product you are more likely to
purchase it and recommend via word
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This has been called Social advertising Photo by: Zorba the Geek - geograph.org
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Social advertising is how social media is capitalizing friendship
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And it’s working
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11 million businesses have pages on FacebookPhoto by: Sean MacEntee - Flickr Fact by: CNET News - Tweet - (@CNETNews) July 26, 2012
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That represents a 1100% growth from 2007
Photo by: basegreen - Flickr Fact by: Nick Rogers using stats on slide 9 and 18
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Social Advertising provides both advantages and disadvantages for the user
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Social Advertising or Word of Mouth
causes companies to create high quality, interactive advertisements
Photo by: national museum of american history - Flickr
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Constant Social
advertising can turn our social media centres into clutter filled spam hot-
spots
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How will the monetization of
friendship
continue to change the social media
landscape?
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