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or users, to buy their new products from their shops and to increase or promote their productivity or
the functioning of a particular website, example: a shopping or banking website.

When it comes to communication, social networking for example, Facebook is the most known
communicational site that users around the globe uses to communicate with friends and family and it’s
a great deal for online business entrepreneurs to sell their new products to consumers or audience
online. As of the third quarter of 2017, Facebook had 2.07 billion monthly active users. In the third
quarter of 2012, the number of active Facebook users had surpassed 1 billion, making it the first social
network ever to do so. Active users are those which have logged in to Facebook during the last 30 days.
For most social networks, the 25-34 age groups has control, but not by much. Facebook, Google+,
Twitter, Instagram, and Pinterest fall into this category. Millennials age 18-24 consist of the most users
on Snapchat, Vine, and Tumblr. LinkedIn is the odd-one out, with 35- 44 year olds leading the way. But
now, social networking sites allow users between the ages 12 or 13 and above to communicate with
people, especially, Facebook or Snapchat.

ONLINE CONFERENCING

Besides emailing, online- conferencing is a
great deal for most private business
companies. It gives them the time and right
to communicate externally with other co-
workers or employees over the internet with
the use of an online conferencing app or
website. Skype is a typical example of an
online-conferencing service. It is the most
popular communicational site that most
users, young adults, companies, schools,
etc., use to keep track of their business and
or to see how well the workers are doing.
Families and friends communicate externally with the use of an online communicational device at a
distance area. This is to keep in touch with their loved ones and to see how things are going. Most
students; online students, uses an online communicational device to communicate with their friends
and to discuss school assignments or projects. Teleworkers are the most second users of an online-
conference service. It gives them the access to review or present their work and to communicate with
other co-workers or employees to see how things are going within the site. It gives them an overview of
what has recently been done at the site. There’s no denying that video conferencing has found its way
into our professional lives. For many organizations, video plays an important role in our collaboration
strategies, ultimately transforming the way we do business. Basically face-to-face communication
without the distance, video conferencing makes interacting with colleagues, partners and customers
simple and reliable while bringing internal teams closer together irrespective of distance. The global web
conferencing market, which includes ‘SaaS’ and on- premise, grew at a healthy 9.8% in 2015 to reach
$2.41 billion. The overall market is seeing accelerated demand driven by simplification, lower-prices,
and migration from stand-alone audio to web and video conferencing.

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