An In Depth Analysis Of African Social Network

By Marissa Velazquez


There is a general improvement of African Social Network in the current age compared to its status some years back. Almost every talk among black people must touch on the aspects of interaction platforms. Because of the increase of access and ownership of handheld devices and availability of unlimited bandwidth, linking to different people in Africa and globally has become easy.

Today, people on the continents are enjoying every bit of their digital world. This may all seem like a joke or perhaps some magic, but in reality, Africa is working hard to transform its digital aspects with an aim of doing things in quite a different manner. In fact, persons are transforming, a new mode of communication is being realized and many companies are putting their dependency on these mediums to operate and increase sales.

People have carried several researches about the general aspects of social networking in Africa. Some findings indicate that this continent has the largest number of people who own mobile phones. In fact, Africa is the second largest cell phone marketers and distributors in the world after Asia. Again, the number of people using cell phones to communicate at the current time is more than 700 million.

The number of people using mobile phones is expected to increase from 700 million users to one billion consumers in the next two years. The technological developments and advancements in this continent seek to meet the spending and consumption needs of the people of Africa. In fact, people are using mobile phones, aside from computer systems, to connect to one another and do business on a daily basis.

A large number of the African population access the internet via their cell phones. Those accessing internet services through mobile phones are so many compared to those accessing through laptops and desktops. This is a genuine and clear indication that Africans have taken up a great interest in being part of the social media community.

Some research done on social medial like Google plus and Facebook use in Africa shows that over 40 million people are registered members. A further research was carried out to see what devices people use to access these media. The findings indicate that majority are mobile phone subscribers. Because of the large number of users on these platforms, there is a guarantee for further improvements in African market in future.

The upgrade of mobile technology in Africa has not come to an end and by the year 2016, the number of people who are using mobile phones will increase significantly with some using the latest models in the market. This means that the number of people that will have registered accounts on social media will increase significantly. In addition to that, the e-commerce atmosphere of Africa will improve significantly.

It is now obvious than before that African Social Network performs other tasks other than bringing people together. In fact, today people are using social media for the purpose of finding more customers, expanding their businesses and also marketing and distributing their product. This has led to a progressive growth in the economy of Africa in general.




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