The Online Landscape

Paul O’Briantpaul@obriant.net

www.21stCenturySheep.com

Do you love me? Tend my sheep. John 21:16

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Access

99

Average age of computer/video gamer -

33

• ALL ALLOW INTERNET ACCESS

Who is online?

http://www.slideshare.net/PewInternet/how-do-they-even-do-that-myths-and-facts-about-the-impact-of-technology-on-the-lives-of-american-teens?from=ss_embed

What is Social Media?

• Media for social interaction

• Web based technologies

• User generated content

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200 million accounts (Sept. 2011)

Millions of Tweets every day

White Plains UMC

• Social networking now accounts for 22% of all time spent online in the US

• 78% of American Adults are online

• 65% of online adults use social networking sites

• Facebook

• US population 312 million

• 12 million United Methodist world-wide

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3 billion videos watched each day

17% of online daters have turned online dates into long term relationships or marriage.