The popular social networking blog Mashable has declared today Social Media Day, and techie-types across the country are planning Tweetups to celebrate, as Mashable puts it, "the revolution of media becoming social." Locals are planning a lunch at noon at the Area Fifteen conference center in the Optimist Park neighborhood just north of center-city Charlotte.
Whether you think sites like Facebook and YouTube and Twitter are a bunch of crock, they are having an undeniable impact on life and communications today. Check out these statistics, collected by researchers with Experian Simmons:
- Two-thirds of Americans now use social media sites, up about 230 percent from penetration levels just three years ago.
- It's not just kids. Some 41 percent of online adults ages 50 or older visit social networking sites monthly.
- Nearly half of the people who visit social networking sites say they do so multiple times per day.
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7 comments:
Ooh boy, let's celebrate being "social" by sitting in front of our computers all day!
Thanks for this post & Happy Social Media Day, Eric.
Connecting with other people is something I consider a basic human need. The tools used to accomplish this are ever-changing and I'd say more 'fad-like'.
As far as changing the way that we communicate, I am seeing an interesting trend in my own life: As my digital communication increases, so does my analog (in-person) communication.
I'm using social web tools to connect with many people, asynchronously, at conversational levels that were formerly only possible in-person. Social tools help me be more sociable!
Facebook has more than 63 million active users- social media day is now everyday.
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