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Social Media Revolution – Unbelievable Facts and Figures

16 points by rosskimbarovsky 16y ago

brm 16y ago
Why not link to the original source?
- rokhayakebe 16y ago
  Because it won't drive traffic and potential customers to their site , I guess. I can't blame them for it.
  - hugh3 16y ago
    Nope, I'm pretty sure we can blame them for it. I can also blame them for adding a sensationalist headline which promises "Unbelievable Facts And Figures" and then follows it up with a combination of a few completely boring facts (omg half the world's population is under thirty as you might have suspected if you thought about it for a moment!) and some statements which are unbelievable only in the rather trivial sense that they're almost certainly complete bullshit (one out of eight married couples met via social media? I imagine at least seven out of eight couples married before there was such a thing as "social media") So in conclusion, I do blame them for putting together a link-whoring, sensationalized, extremely dull blog post based on someone else's work for the purposes of attempting to drive traffic to their site under false pretences.
- rosskimbarovsky 16y ago
  brm - The video on YouTube doesn't provide much context for what it is. Happy to link to original sources that provide some context (video descriptions don't always do that), but in this case, didn't see enough there.
  - aw3c2 16y ago
    You could have commented with those facts if you just wanted to share this with fellow hn users.
c00p3r 16y ago
Which means "Texting 2.0" or "Mobile phone 2.0" is the next big thing. It is time to say farewell to "web 2.0".
- rosskimbarovsky 16y ago
  Mobile has been the next big thing for years now. And maybe there's actually some real activity in mobile now for that to happen...
sonpo 16y ago
"Social media has overtaken pornography as the #1 web activity" That one surprised me - I'd love to see some numbers. I've heard for ages now that the the porn industry is the leader in creating new internet technologies. Does that mean the social media companies will be the pioneers now? I can't tell if they are actually innovating or just trying to outdo each other.
- rosskimbarovsky 16y ago
  I have to say that I found that stat (and the 1 out of 8 married couples met via social media), most surprising. And if true (about social media overtaking pornography), I imagine we'll see lots of porn-based social media activity going forward.
  - GFischer 16y ago
    I'm pretty sure most of these figures refer to US only (and I wish they said so) and I still find them quite surprising. There's no way that married couples in, say, China, or (an example I know better) Brazil, met via social media. Only about 1 in 4 people use Internet worldwide ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_Internet_usage http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_Internet_usage ) and of those, about 50% use social media ( http://randomthougts101.blogspot.com/2009/06/social-media-network-use-worldwide.html http://randomthougts101.blogspot.com/2009/06/social-media-ne... ), so, even if all of the social media users matched up, I doubt it would come up to 1 in 8 !!! (yes, I know I made some dubious assumptions along the way, but I hope you get the idea) I also expect less than 10% of companies worldwide to use social media for recruitment currently, not to mention less than 1% of governments! (made up figures, but along the lines of what I'd expect) BTW, from "real" figures, it seems about 12% of the population worldwide works in the public sector: http://unpan1.un.org/intradoc/groups/public/documents/un/un-00002.pdf http://unpan1.un.org/intradoc/groups/public/documents/un/un-...
    - rosskimbarovsky 16y ago
      All good points.

brm 16y ago

Why not link to the original source?

rokhayakebe 16y ago
Because it won't drive traffic and potential customers to their site , I guess. I can't blame them for it.
- hugh3 16y ago
  Nope, I'm pretty sure we can blame them for it. I can also blame them for adding a sensationalist headline which promises "Unbelievable Facts And Figures" and then follows it up with a combination of a few completely boring facts (omg half the world's population is under thirty as you might have suspected if you thought about it for a moment!) and some statements which are unbelievable only in the rather trivial sense that they're almost certainly complete bullshit (one out of eight married couples met via social media? I imagine at least seven out of eight couples married before there was such a thing as "social media") So in conclusion, I do blame them for putting together a link-whoring, sensationalized, extremely dull blog post based on someone else's work for the purposes of attempting to drive traffic to their site under false pretences.
rosskimbarovsky 16y ago
brm - The video on YouTube doesn't provide much context for what it is. Happy to link to original sources that provide some context (video descriptions don't always do that), but in this case, didn't see enough there.
- aw3c2 16y ago
  You could have commented with those facts if you just wanted to share this with fellow hn users.

c00p3r 16y ago

Which means "Texting 2.0" or "Mobile phone 2.0" is the next big thing. It is time to say farewell to "web 2.0".

rosskimbarovsky 16y ago
Mobile has been the next big thing for years now. And maybe there's actually some real activity in mobile now for that to happen...

sonpo 16y ago

"Social media has overtaken pornography as the #1 web activity" That one surprised me - I'd love to see some numbers. I've heard for ages now that the the porn industry is the leader in creating new internet technologies. Does that mean the social media companies will be the pioneers now? I can't tell if they are actually innovating or just trying to outdo each other.

rosskimbarovsky 16y ago
I have to say that I found that stat (and the 1 out of 8 married couples met via social media), most surprising. And if true (about social media overtaking pornography), I imagine we'll see lots of porn-based social media activity going forward.
- GFischer 16y ago
  I'm pretty sure most of these figures refer to US only (and I wish they said so) and I still find them quite surprising. There's no way that married couples in, say, China, or (an example I know better) Brazil, met via social media. Only about 1 in 4 people use Internet worldwide ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_Internet_usage http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_Internet_usage ) and of those, about 50% use social media ( http://randomthougts101.blogspot.com/2009/06/social-media-network-use-worldwide.html http://randomthougts101.blogspot.com/2009/06/social-media-ne... ), so, even if all of the social media users matched up, I doubt it would come up to 1 in 8 !!! (yes, I know I made some dubious assumptions along the way, but I hope you get the idea) I also expect less than 10% of companies worldwide to use social media for recruitment currently, not to mention less than 1% of governments! (made up figures, but along the lines of what I'd expect) BTW, from "real" figures, it seems about 12% of the population worldwide works in the public sector: http://unpan1.un.org/intradoc/groups/public/documents/un/un-00002.pdf http://unpan1.un.org/intradoc/groups/public/documents/un/un-...
  - rosskimbarovsky 16y ago
    All good points.