THE PROBLEM AND ITS BACKGROUND
Introduction
The generation of today is more often called the generation of technology. The youth of the new era is now fully equipped and capable of connecting with anyone, anywhere at any given time. The development of different gadgets truly changed the lifestyle ok the people. According to an article by an unknown author, although the web or the internet was full of different and interesting information, there was little or no opportunity to participate or contribute to the growth of the media. However, upon the development of social networking sites, the web was opened to the world and was able to fulfill its purpose: to provide people all over the world a never ending way of connecting. “Nothing has changed the Web more than the rise of social networking sites.” Upon the rise of the internet’s popularity, different programmers and developers designed a variety of web sites which enabled the users to gather information quicker and easier, to communicate with their loves ones and friends from other countries, and entertained them in their extra time. Because of the many benefits of the web sites, it’s popularity grew and lead to the development of different famous social networking sites of today. As presented on an article about the statistical population of social networking site users and members entitled UserActivity: Comparison of Social Networking Sites, the three most famous and most visited social networking sites are Facebook, Twitter, and Google+ as of 2012. It also presented the female-male ratio of the total users. Facebook has 40% of its members as male and 60% female with a population over 901 Million members and 7012.9 Million visitors. Twitter with 43% Male and 57% Female members of about 555 Million registered users and 182.1 Million visitors annually. Finally, Google+ has a population of 170 Million members, 61 Million visitors with a female-male ratio of 63%