I was delighted when I received this interesting guest post from enthusiastic Sophie Bratt (Psychology graduate from Cheshire). Sophie outlines the changes put in place for Facebook and how they can effect the standard user.
A great way to ‘stay connected’: Facebook proves how credible it is with some astonishing figures:
1) Over 800 million active users, over 50 % of which log-in daily
2) Over 250 million photos are uploaded per day
3) More than 2 billion posts are ‘liked’ or commented on per day
4) And, the site is now available in more than 70 languages.
So for the average person, using Facebook has become part of daily life. It’s how we keep up-to-date with friends, family, co-workers, events, photos and who ‘likes’ what. We even might be ‘friends’ with people who are actually just acquaintances and enjoy the odd ‘Facebook stalk’ of someone we wish to know more about. Whichever way we use it, Facebook is a central aspect of our day-to-day life… and it’s not going away.
Reaching such a huge global platform makes it easy to see why Facebook has to remain up-to-date, user friendly and safety conscious: to protect its users and keep them engaged. However, although many of its new changes have been met with praise Facebook is not without its critics. Latest updates like larger image displays and the opportunity to download images are amongst new features that are particularly user-friendly. It seems that to the digital-native, constant developments to Facebook are easy to overcome.