Entertainment

Entertainment is thought to have been the main reason for online becoming so popular in recent years. People can communicate, listen, watch and play at the touch of a button.

 

Social media

Millions of people use social media to interact with others from anywhere in the world, they can talk to people they know or find and get to know new people. Social media allows people to keep constantly updated on the happening within their friendship group.

Within social media are connections to other entertainment sources, this can be links to places like buzzfeed.com where entertaining and informative articles can be found daily. This diversity within a site like Facebook or twitter allows people to have a hub where all of their online video entertainment can be found and linked to.

Online games

The world of online games is a huge one; this includes titles like “world of Warcraft” (WOW) and “league of legends”.  WOW is played by over 6 million people and is growing constantly; it is an extremely social game as it requires good and constant communication with a large group of people to succeed.  Important relationships can form between people as they play and there have been thousands of physical meet-ups between people who play and some even end up getting married.

On the other hand we have game like “League of legends” where close teamwork must be upheld to then win a game. Whereas with WOW you get quests to do with others in an expanding open world, league of legends is a competitive multiplayer game where each game is held on the same map and you are put against other real people. This competitive aspect means the game has huge replay value as the odds of what will happen change every time. However pitting random people against each other is bound to cause problems, this is what has made league of legends infamous for its toxic community where people will insult and threaten in game to other and even their own team, this shows that although the technology may work, we still need people to co-operate in a social environment for it to run smoothly.

1 in 4 people will play video games on a regular basis and half of these will be online games. The closely knit community that back up these groups provides communication and social aspects and provides it to people all around world to make new bonds with new people.

Videos

One of the most used websites in YouTube; here people can stream an unlimited number of hours of entertainment all for free. It had grown massively in the past few years with 1 billion unique users visiting the site each month, and it creates a lot of media. New age celebrities have emerged from YouTube and are mobbed in the street by their millions of followers. While the site offers free viewing it doesn’t stop people from making a living out of it. Adverts that are shown to the viewer before a video will create a revenue of whoever owns that account and over time this has proven to provide millions of jobs for people from all around the world.