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Is social media the biggest shift since the Industrial Revolution? Eric Qualman from Socialnomics thinks so! This is another great visualisation of the latest social media statistics that always makes for a few minutes well spent watching! It provides a range of great stats like these…
- By 2010 Gen Y will outnumber Baby Boomers
- 96% of them have joined a social network
- 1 out of 8 couples married in the US last year have met via social media
- Facebook added 100 million users in 9 months
- If Facebook would be a country, it would be the world?s 4th largest
- 80% of companies are using LinkedIn as their primary tool to find employees
- 80% of Twitter usage is on mobile devices. People update anywhere, anytime. Imagine what that means for bad customer experiences?
- In 2009 Boston College stopped distributing e-mail addresses to incoming freshmen
- YouTube is the 2nd largest search engine in the world
- There are over 200.000.000 Blogs. 54% of bloggers post content or tweet daily.
Most of the information in this video he stole without giving credit – http://www.slideshare.net/mzkagan/what-the-fk-is-social-media-one-year-later
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It’s amazing the speed at which the world rocks up these days. Today the noise is about Twitter, tomorrow it will be something else and it requires companies to be flexible in their approach… they need to not tie the hands of their people but free them to blog, twitter, facebook, linkin and on… it is the only way they can max this baby!!
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I don’t think that social media is a revolution so much as an evolution. When the internet first became available to big business and later to the general public, email was the killer app for many years, and even if it is considered passe my some continues to dominate daily activities online. Why?
The short answer is that human beings are inherently social in nature. The internet has accelerated and facilitated a higher level of person to person interaction than has ever been known before. In that respect, it may be appropriate to term it a revolution, albeit a revolution of technology better enabling human beings to be exactly that: human.
Social media and interaction, while advancing human endeavour, is simultaneously bringing us back to our fundamental roots, all that which makes us human: our desire to interact, to connect one to the other. In my view, every step forward serves to bring us back to who and what we truly are; unique individuals with a desire to be a part of the larger community.
That is what Social Media is to me.
cheers, Marc
Great video, hope those stats are all true. As first comment suggests, I think it would give the vid more credibility if the information sources were backed up with references.
Nicely done and good little tool to communicate to out of touch businesses what is happening.
Good one.
OK…a huge chat room….but so far I know who is having a “great day” and a few blogs of some interest when I have down time to explore… where is the money end of all this? What I am seeing is a great place to ask questions,get info and simply chat…despite what the statistics are saying.
No question about it, this is the best way I’ve seen to present this information to a hardheaded boss who doesn’t see the light.
Great video !
Thanks for sharing
Interesting copy, bud video “Did you know?” took most of the credit because it was perfectly DESIGNED, this one is about reading, so it wont have such a success, also the statistics are quite doubtfull
Actually, no. Social media is not the biggest shift since the Industrial Revolution. The Internet at large is – Previous to the Industrial Revolution, most societies were agrarian based, with small artisanal manufacturers of goods. Social Media allows me to keep in touch with my high-school friends, and doesn’t represent an epochal shift in human advancement as the Internet did (See also: electricity). I would argue that social media is more of a navel-gazing narcissistic attempt by marketers to effect society in a way that allows for the easier distribution of goods, but does not reflect at all “shift” in the fundamental ways that people live their lives.
If Facebook were a country it would also be one of the poorest, if not the poorest, countries in the world. Facebook’s revenue is miniscule compared to other services with a user base as large. Same for MySpace, Twitter and a myriad of other social “revolution” companies.
Nothing is free. Someone is paying the cost for these services to exist. When they find a profitable business model, I’ll be more heady about social media. Until that point, “fad” may be appropriate. If Facebook decides to charge, good buy. I wouldn’t pay for the service. I use it every day, but it’s not worth paying for…
Don’t believe me? Let’s make a bet on YouTube. Eventually, it won’t be free. Ads aren’t working. It’s losing $500 million a year. Nobody (including its owner Google) wants to continue with a business model like that…
This video is a great resource for any Social Media advocate trying to “inspire” someone who is skeptical of Social Media as a effective marketing tactic.
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Seria a Social Media o novo grande marco desde a Revolução Industrial? Bom, Eric Qualman da Socialnomics acha que sim! Esse é mais um video que mostra de uma forma visual as últimas estatísticas da media social. Mesmo sendo números que refletem mais a…
Fascinating presentation of the revolution!
Way to use one of the most clichéd music tracks ever. Why didn’t he just use ‘Simply The Best’ and be done with it?!
Where are these figures coming from? Not so convinced…
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3 questions:
Who read the list of stats before the watched the video?
Of those, who realised the video repeated the list of stats below it?
Of those, who just read the list?
You’re probably generation X or older. Just a guess.
I’d like to have seen credit given too.
Yep, I was nearly run off the road by a nitwit texting on her mobile phone the other day. She was probably twittering!!
What a shame this is made to be such a big deal, that its social contact!! Pretty soon people won’t have face to face social skills anymore.Eventually the art of talking will be no more, and eventually evolution can do away with the voice box, and change our fingers into pointy little things to allow us to hit the buttons easily. Your twitter device will come complete with a coffee maker and a dildo. Is it the easier distribution of goods or the easier distribution of advertising into our heads? I personally HATE this stuff, because I HATE the uncalled for advertising that ends up on it. Eventually we will be so sensitised to the advertising we will ignore it. I for one am not intersted in services finding me, I already hate being cold called by phone. How many people list their phone numbers on the don’t call list, wait till we can list out computers blackberries on the don’t call, don’t advertise list!!! Then lets see how powerful a medium it is!!!!
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