Social Media Revolution – Facts and Figures Ross | May 7th, 2010
About one year ago, Erik Qualman, the author of Socialnomics, produced a popular video highlighting the impressive facts and figures about the growing popularity of social media.
Erik has produced a follow-up video and the updated facts and figures show very clearly that social media continues to dominate many areas of our life. Some examples mentioned in the video:
- Over 50% of the world’s population is under 30 years old
- Social media has overtaken pornography as the #1 web activity
- 1 out of 8 married couples met via social media
- 80% of companies use social media for recruitment
Here’s the video with many more fascinating facts and figures:
Do you think these trends will continue to increase?
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“1 out of 8 married couples met via social media”
Where does this stat come from?
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Video is not working on my iPhone
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Yeah Social media is the craze among children, teens, up to adults… an mean no rules
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Chris your iphone does not support Flash player from Adobe.
Smartphones are and will be and do what the computers do now and the social media is in and goes forever in your pocket.