The pie charts below show the age groups of the users on different social media platforms in Australia in 2011

The pie charts illustrate the preferred social media

platforms

(

Facebook

, Twitter, Linkedln, Google+, Pinterest) among Australians varying from the years 2011 to 2013.

Overall

,

Facebook

is the most common platform

while

Pinterest is the least well-known social media app. It can be seen from the pie chart that over a 3 years period, from 2011 to 2013,

Facebook

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the most commonly use platform by the vast majority, the percentage has decreased from 59% in 2011 to 38% in 2013. From the figures, it can be inferred that

Facebook

is gradually used less as other

platforms

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.

On the contrary

, the remaining 4 media

platforms

had a rise in percentage throughout the course. The most major increase is shown through the Google+ platform. The initial percentage in 2011 was 5% and rapidly increased in one year to twice as much (10% in 2012), the growth lessened by 1% from the year 2012 to 2013, having only a 4% rise. The other 3

platforms

had more consistent increases, as shown in Twitter where the growth is by 2% each year.