LO1 Task 1 Analysing media products (Facebook)

Facebook – 

Purpose:
This is a social online networking service, where users can message people and friends from all around the world express their views and opinions and even upload pictures for all of them to see. A man named Mark Zuckerberg invented this social app. Since august 2015 there have been 1.8 billion monthly active users.

Content: 

Facebook allows its users to upload there own personal content to the internet weather thats images or personal statuses for friends and family to see. However in recent times videos have started to get popular on this social media site too. Facebook also allows famous celebtrities to promote themselfs as they rise up.

Target Audience:
Facebook in recent times has been used by almost everyone across the world even people ranging from ages to 13 - 90. There is a minimum requirement to sign up for facebook and that is 13 years old. From this age rating we can see that 18 - 25 use facebook the most at 86% and over 45 year olds use it the least at 15%.

Sources:
Facebook advertisies on its site this is how it gains its profit as there is always adverts in corners and if you click on games they automatically invite friends. Also there are many investors in facebook which still allo

Legal/ethical issues:

With many social media sites there are many legal and ehical issues as you would expect. Many fake profiles are created, the most common is of fake celebrities as people pretend to be them, many issues can arrise from cyber bulying too and online trolls.