Wattpad

THE EFFECTS ON PATRONIZATION OF (NAME OF SCHOOL) FEMALE HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS OF IV-(SECTION) ON WATTPAD STORIES

INTRODUCTION

Internet acted a great helper in our daily lives, but also in our personal and professional lives development. It helps us to achieve this in several different ways. Internet is perfectly used to gather information and the largest encyclopedia for everyone, in all age type. It keeps being more useful to conserve contacts with friends and relatives who permanently live abroad. Chatting and emails are the easiest communication to keep contacts with the people around world. Not to forget internet deliver fun these days. It may be games, online movies, quizzes, songs, and online reading and writing community, and now the most popular eBook site is Wattpad.

Wattpad is the biggest reading site today, it have many categories like fiction, non-fiction, romance, rom-com,

I. HISTORY/BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY

Wattpad as an online community that connects writers to its readers is now popular in the Philippines .Ivan Yuen and Allen Lau is the founder and CEO of Wattpad in 2006, Wattpad is removing traditional barriers between readers and writers and building social communities around stories. It’s a model that’s not only working for amateur writers but also for established writers including Margaret Atwood and Paulo Coelho.

With years of experience building successful mobile tech companies, Allen first started prototyping a mobile eReading app in 2002 on an old grey-scale Java phone that could only display 5 lines of text. He wanted to solve a problem he was facing – how to read while on the go. So for the past 10 years Allen has been exploring the power of mobile/social collab`12oration, online communities, and user-generated content.

Wattpad now serves over 10 million readers worldwide, 1 million in the UK. 6 million user-generated stories span every genre including mystery, romance, sci-fi, poetry and fan fiction. A staggering...