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"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

by 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.

by sonpo 16y ago

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.