The tendency of using social media has became the new thing to do. Therefore seniors do not want to stay behind, although the increase will going slowly due aspects like security and the lack of knowledge, adults prefer to learn how its works. For many reasons people want to create and use social media apps, most of the reasons are because they want to share images, information and see what’s going on, but for the seniors is more likely to use them for personal aspects such as: be connected with family and friends, search for health news, shop online, which is the most popular and with a higher rate of increase for the next years.

Seniors use once in while some social media such as YouTube and Facebook. By 2030 the use of social media will increase. The tendency is that 55% of seniors in U.S.A. in the ages of 50 and 64 now have an account in Facebook (Smith and Anderson, 2018)

By Diana Caballero