Still Think Social Media Is A Fad?:
20 of August, 2009 at 2:25pm
Are you still watching social media from afar, wondering when all the buzz will pass? Thinking it really can’t be that powerful? Confident you don’t need to be a part of it? You need to think again.
Check out the stats below (courtesy of Digital Buzz) – we bet you’ll change your mind.
- 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.
If those stats weren’t enough to get you running to your computer and securing your brand’s names Facebook and Twitter – check out the video below.
Social Media is not a fad.
