SOCIAL MEDIA
According to Social media stats in Rwanda
Facebook 89.93% ; Pinterest: 5.18%; Twitter: 2.89%, Linke-
din: 0.62%; YouTube: 0.49%; Instagram:0.27%
Kagame, the ‘Digital President’ is an ardent promoter of
use of technology and believes in investing in the country’s
youth.
One website reveals that more than one billion people
are on Facebook. 400 million people on Instagram, 300
million people on Twitter, and YouTube attracts more
than 5 Billion people a day and has 1.5 billion logged in
monthly users watching a ton of mobile video. It fur-
ther says people share more than 50 billion pieces of
content on Facebook each month.
The Rwandan leader who has deeply embraced e-gover-
nance, uses social media to easily interact with citizens in-
cluding people across the world
Social media can be a very good thing for opening up and
maintaining lines of communication. Businesses, individu-
als, and organizations can all benefit from this simple means
of communicating. However, as with all forms of inter-
net-based communications, it provides an easy means for
abuse such as bullying, slander, and propaganda. Parents
would be wise to monitor their children’s use of social media.
I feel like the premise of social media is a decent idea. It is
nice to stay in touch with extended family members and
some friends and in that respect, I think it is a good thing. I
believe, however, that people who introduced social media,
now want to use it as an advertising platform, and that, to
me, is bad.