期刊名称：International Journal of Data and Network Science
印刷版ISSN：2561-8148
电子版ISSN：2561-8156
出版年度：2017
卷号：1
期号：1
页码：1-4
DOI：10.5267/j.ijdns.2017.1.001
出版社：Growing Science
摘要：During the past few years, there have been tremendous changes on social media through different applications in Canada. Many people choose their products and services solely based on the tips they receive from various social media such as Facebook, Twitter, etc. Social media are ex-periencing an increase popularity, both among the ordinary people who simply use the facilitated interaction, and businessman who observe it as a serious marketing facility. In this paper, we study the trend and usage of social media for different purposes in Canadian society. The survey indicates that Facebook has been the most popular followed by Twitter and LinkedIn. The study also indicates that social media are used for many purposes such as reaching update news, recommending products or services, recruiting employees, etc.
