Social Media Visualized!

Take a look at this four minute video created by Eric Qualman from Socialnomics. He presents some great social media statistics.

Summary of stats from the video (courtesy of Digital Buzz Blog):

  • By 2010 Gen Y will outnumber Baby Boomers
  • 96% of them have joined a social network
  • 1 out of 8 couples married in the US last year have met via social media
  • Facebook added 100 million users in 9 months
  • If Facebook would be a country, it would be the world’s 4th largest
  • 80% of companies are using LinkedIn as their primary tool to find employees
  • 80% of Twitter usage is on mobile devices. People update anywhere, anytime. Imagine what that means for bad customer experiences?
  • In 2009 Boston College stopped distributing e-mail addresses to incoming freshmen
  • YouTube is the 2nd largest search engine in the world
  • There are over 200.000.000 Blogs. 54% of bloggers post content or tweet daily.