I am not sure where you may be along the technical spectrum of the online world. Perhaps you are just getting email figured out. I wonder though have you ever asked yourself what is Twitter? Or what is Facebook, MySpace, LinkedIn, etc. You may have even asked what is a blog?
If you have put off getting to know what these things are it is my desire to get your attention and move you to learn all you can about it.
Here are some of the facts:
- By 2010 gen Y will outnumber baby boomers: 96% of them have joined a social network
- Social media has overtaken porn as the #1 activity on the net
- 1 of 8 couples married in the US last year met via social media
Some ask is it a revolution? Well consider the following facts. When we look back historically on the adoption rates of new technology it can be measured in the time it took to reach fifty million users. Radio took 38 years to reach that mark. TV did it much faster reaching that milestone in only 13 years. The internet took one fourth that time and reached it in 4 years. It took the iPod just 3 years to reach 50 million users. Facebook added over 100 million users in less than 9 months.
In addition iPod application downloads hit 1 billion in only nine months.
If Facebook were a country it would be the fourth largest between the US and Indonesia.
The fastest growing segment on Facebook is 55-65 year-old females.
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