Final Project 2-minute Broadcast

(There are a few technical difficulties I could not fix within this broadcast. The watermark that appears for the first half of the broadcast was put on  when I was finalizing my video, by the software I used because I used a trial version. The camera I used didn’t always have the beast audio so, some clips are a little harder to hear than others.)

Hello everyone I’m Catie Noyes bringing you your latest news update.

Facebook has made its way to the top in the social media world. A study done by The Neilson Company shows that Facebook topped MySpace and Twitter in the amount of time users are spending on social media sites.

This chart, courtesy of The Neilson Company, compares the amount of time spent on some of the top social media sites. Based on these studies MySpace was in the lead with over 7 million total minutes in April 2008 while Facebook followed in second with almost 2 million minutes. Since then Facebook has soared to the top with a total reaching over 13 million minutes in April and still growing.

I took a walk around The Ohio State University campus in order to see how much time students are spending on Facebook and what it is they are doing on the site.

(Interviews)

Me: “How much time would you say you spend on Facebook?”

Annie DeWitt, 18: “A day?”

Me: “Yeah”

DeWitt: “Half hour.”

Danny Adams, 21: “Somewhere between an hour or two a day.”

Tom Smigel, 19: “Hour and a half. Hour a day.”

Tressa Casey, 18: “I think his answer actually means 3 hours and probably like 30 minutes.”

Stephanie Moormann, 20: “Depends on how much I procrastinate. Anywhere from maybe 2 to 5 hours a day, 5 hours being if I have more homework.”

How they spend their time:

Casey: “Just checking up on friends that aren’t, like, here.”

DeWitt: “On Facebook?”

Me: “Yeah.”

DeWitt: “Talking to people.”

Moormann: “My high school friends, checking up on them or stalking them.”

Adams: “Checking up on friends’ statuses, once in a while I’ll get into a conversation with somebody and I’ve got a couple stalkers so I try to avoid them while I’m on too.”

(Closing)

Facebook has come a long way in the social media world and is a major part of student lives.

That’s all there is today, thanks for tuning in for this special news update.