Do you know what your friends watched on TV last night? Do your friends know what you had for breakfast today? Do you think you are using social media (社交媒体) too much?
It is reported that around 2,800 million people often use social media. That's almost 40 percent of the world's population. But how much time do we really spend on social media? And what exactly do we spend that time doing?
Research shows that, worldwide, the average (普通的) person spends two hours and 19 minutes on social media each day. An average person there spends four hours and 17 minutes a day on social media. Research also shows that women use social media more than men. In the United States, for example, women spend around two hours more a week than men on social media.
In general, it seems we spend more time looking at other people's pages than adding to our own. According to one survey, the most common social media activities are visiting friends' pages, reading their news, and commenting (评论) on their posts.
It has over 2,000 million users. In second place, however, is the Chinese site Qzone. In 2017, Qzone was China's most popular social media site, with around 600 million users worldwide. That's more than Twitter and Instagram.
Social media continues to grow. And as Internet access (通道) becomes available to even more people around the world, this growth won't stop anytime soon.
A. What do most people do on social media?
B. Why do people communicate on social media?
C. People in Philippines are the most active users.
D. The most popular social media site is Facebook.
E. On Facebook, people post their news and photos.
F. Right now, there are 5 new Facebook users every second.
G. Social media is now a part of many people's everyday lives.
