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Impact Of Social Media On Business

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Throughout history, humans as a society have grown tremendously since the industrial revolution. We now live in the Information Age. This is an age in human history that is characterized by the introduction of the personal computer in the 1970s. Since then technology continues to be introduced to allow us to have networking, the news, the latest technologies right at our finger tips. About eighty-six percent of people spend about five hours a day on cell phones, we spend twenty hours a week online, and we spend about one hundred fifty minutes a day on social media. Social media has been one of the biggest movements of the information age. What exactly is social media? And how does it affect businesses today? We will explore how Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter among other social media platforms have helped boost sales to unimaginable heights, this single most important effect, has forced companies to consider its policies and thereafter direct sales. Also, we will explore why a company’s online presence is important and the effects of it in a business marketing strategy and direct sales.
Social media are web applications that allows the user to create an account and share his ideas, thoughts, pictures and video for others to see. The first social media site was called Six Degrees, was created in 1997 which allowed users to upload a profile picture and make ‘friends” with others. Since then you are now able to create private groups on social media sites. Upload

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