The internet has 3.5 billion users.
There are 3.03 billion active social media users.
Internet users have an average of 7.6 social media accounts
Facebook Messenger and Whatsapp handle 60 billion messages a day
Facebook: 2.072 billion users / Instagram: 800 million users / LinkedIn: 500 million users / Snapchat: 178 million daily users/ Youtube: 1.5 billion users.
Facebook now sees 8 billion average daily video views from 500 million users
Google processes 100 billion searches a month
Facebook adds 500,000 new users every day; 6 new profiles every second
300 hours of video are uploaded to Youtube every minute
90 % of Instagram users are younger than 35.
ABOUT DIMEYE
22 participants from 7 countries
Location: Valencia, Spain
Date: May 23-29, 2018
Host organisation: Associació Empresarial L’alqueria Projectes Educatius (Spain)
Partners: Cultura e dintorni, APPIS- Associação Paredes pela Inclusão Social, FilmWorks Trust, Asociatia Dialoguri Europene, Penthesileia, Alphabet Formation
Co-funded through Erasmus+ Programme
The aim of the project is to promote youth employment through an effective and appropriate use of digital tools, especially social media.
The project focuses on the “digital mentoring” as a methodology that allow youth workers to guide young people to create and preserve a digital identity and thus becoming suitable candidates on the labour market.
PROJECT OBJECTIVES
1) Raising awareness among about the use of ICTs and social
media as tool for job recruitment and promoting an an aware, responsible use of them by young people in order to access to the European labour market.
2) Exploring the concept of Digital Identity and Reputation and learning how to create and maintain a good digital reputation.
3) Exploring and testing non formal education methodologies (digital mentoring) and other interactive, peer-to-peer tools to be used in youth work, adjusting them to young people specific needs and creating new one.