Sharing those special moments.... online!

We cannot deny that sharing pictures, images and videos has become a very normal activity for most of us in our daily lives.

                                              We live in a very audiovisual society.

But do you know that now we have specific terms for what kind of sharing activity you do in the internet?

According to the publication  Photo and Video Sharing Grow Online 

 Dugan, M. (2013, October 28). Photo and Video Sharing Grow Online. Retrieved June 13, 2015, from http://www.pewinternet.org/2013/10/28/photo-and-video-sharing-grow-online/  

You are a CREATOR (that's an easy one!) if you produce original pictures and videos... but you are a CURATOR if you look for images and videos in sites and share them with other users.

Funny! for me, the term CURATOR is more like "person who works creates, designs, keeps, and gives maintenance to a collection (could be a museum and/or library). 

And this activities has been increasing in the latter years, due the ownership of personal devices, such as cellphones and smartphones.

The two most popular applications for this task are Snapchat and Instagram, that are very popular with teenagers and young adults (28-29 years old), do not forget Facebook and Youtube.

 PewResearchCenter conducted a survey that usually young adults (18-29 years old) specially women are more likely to create,  post and share pictures and videos than men as creators.

In the area of curators, the results are basically the same, young adults, women in majority like to search, share and/or re-post pictures and videos online.

How often you use the Instagram application was not surprise (in young adults) that the use was several times a day (24%), also with the options to answer about once a day, 3-5 times per week, 1-2 days per week and once every few weeks. 

As we can see, the sharing of those special moments in your life now is something that can be done  on the moment and with a duration that you want (in the case of Snapchat), to the people that you love, and in sometimes, with complete strangers. 

And some people are taking the chance to do it........

 Dugan, M. (2013, October 28). Photo and Video Sharing Grow Online. Retrieved June 13, 2015, from http://www.pewinternet.org/2013/10/28/photo-and-video-sharing-grow-online/ 

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