Social Media Revolution

Great video similar to Did You Know?



Here are some of the stats from the video:

• 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 Web
• 1 out of 8 couples married in the U.S. last year met via social media

Always love to see this. And I like to add that the marriages that came from eHarmony (roughly 1% in US) will be better than those that came through other means.

• 2009 US Department of Education study revealed that on average, online students out performed those receiving face-to-face instruction
• 1 in 6 higher education students are enrolled in online curriculum

• 80% of Twitter usage is on mobile devices…people update anywhere, anytime…imagine what that means for bad customer experiences?

• Generation Y and Z consider e-mail passé…In 2009 Boston College stopped distributing e-mail addresses to incoming freshmen

• 25% of search results for the World’s Top 20 largest brands are links to user-generated content
• 34% of bloggers post opinions about products & brands

• 25% of Americans in the past month said they watched a short video…on their phone

• According to Jeff Bezos 35% of book sales on Amazon are for the Kindle when available

• 24 of the 25 largest newspapers are experiencing record declines in circulation because we no longer search for the news, the news finds us.

Pretty amazing stuff.