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Social Consumers (Final Version)
Social Consumers (Final Version)
Social Consumers
Products purchased by different social media users
Products purchased by different social media users
Today’s Topic, in a Nutshell
• …
• So, how to make sense of all those different social media users?
• Gender
• Income
• Occupation
• Martial status
• Education
• Socio-economic status
• …
Segmentation and Social Media
• Country
• Population density
• Market size
• Climate
• Language
• …
Segmentation and Social Media
• Personality
• Values
• Attitudes
• Interests
• …
Segmentation and Social Media
• Usage rate
• …
Segmentation and Social Media
• Behavioral segmentation is
responsible for many things you
encounter on social media
• Most obvious example, customized
frontpage/recommendations/ads/p
ushes
• But this segmentation method can
also be combined with other bases
towards more sophisticated
predictions of behavior
Segmentation and Social Media
• Jobs to be done
Segmentation and Social Media
• Nowadays, we are all more or less defined by our social media usage
since such usage has become part of our lives.
• Examples?
Motivation: Affinity and contact
• We use social media because they make us feel we belong and are
connected
• To connect and contact with people we know.
• Provide a community that one can find affiliation to and build one’s
social identity on.
• Examples?
Motivation: Altruism
• Examples?
Ice Bucket Challenge
Motivation:(Epistemic) Curiosity
• Examples?
Motivation: Validation
• Examples?
Bring It All Together: Motivation and the Human
Condition
• A system of human motivations
Self-concept-related motivations –
Egocentric Motivations for safety, security, self-verification, self-affirmation, self-
competence, mastery, efficacy, control esteem, self-identity, self-
distinctiveness
• We are and love to be individuals who are different from others and
from the world
• Most social
media users
are connection
seekers
You can, of course, also include more dimensions
Introduce yourself
• Name
• Which year are you in
• Major
• Any other things you think that help
others to know you more (hobby,
special technique, etc.)
SEE YOU
NEXT
TIME!