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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 porn

• 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.