Statistics Show Social Media Is Bigger Than You Think

1. By 2010 Gen Y will outnumber Baby Boomers….96% of them have joined a social network
2. Social Media has overtaken porn as the #1 activity on the Web
3. 1 out of 8 couples married in the U.S. last year met via social media
4. Years to Reach 50 millions Users: Radio (38 Years), TV (13 Years), Internet (4 Years), iPod (3 Years)…Facebook added 100 million users in less than 9 months…iPhone applications hit 1 billion in 9 months.
5. If Facebook were a country it would be the world’s 4th largest between the United States and Indonesia (note that Facebook is now creeping up – recently announced 300 million users)
6. Yet, some sources say China’s QZone is larger with over 300 million using their services (Facebook’s ban in China plays into this)
7. comScore indicates that Russia has the most engage social media audience with visitors spending 6.6 hours and viewing 1,307 pages per visitor per month – Vkontakte.ru is the #1 social network
8. 2009 US Department of Education study revealed that on average, online students out performed those receiving face-to-face instruction
9. 1 in 6 higher education students are enrolled in online curriculum
10. % of companies using LinkedIn as a primary tool to find employees….80%
11. The fastest growing segment on Facebook is 55-65 year-old females
12. Ashton Kutcher and Ellen Degeneres (combined) have more Twitter followers than the population of Ireland, Norway, or Panama. Note I have adjusted the language here after someone pointed out the way it is phrased in the video was difficult to determine if it was combined.
13. 80% of Twitter usage is outside of Twitter…people update anywhere, anytime…imagine what that means for bad customer experiences?
14. Generation Y and Z consider e-mail passé…In 2009 Boston College stopped distributing e-mail addresses to incoming freshmen
15. What happens in Vegas stays on YouTube, Flickr, Twitter, Facebook…
16. The #2 largest search engine in the world is YouTube
17. Wikipedia has over 13 million articles…some studies show it’s more accurate than Encyclopedia Britannica…78% of these articles are non-English
18. There are over 200,000,000 Blogs
19. 54% = Number of bloggers who post content or tweet daily
20. Because of the speed in which social media enables communication, word of mouth now becomes world of mouth
21. If you were paid a $1 for every time an article was posted on Wikipedia you would earn $156.23 per hour
22. Facebook USERS translated the site from English to Spanish via a Wiki in less than 4 weeks and cost Facebook $0
23. 25% of search results for the World’s Top 20 largest brands are links to user-generated content
24. 34% of bloggers post opinions about products & brands
25. People care more about how their social graph ranks products and services than how Google ranks them
26. 78% of consumers trust peer recommendations
27. Only 14% trust advertisements
28. Only 18% of traditional TV campaigns generate a positive ROI
29. 90% of people that can TiVo ads do
30. Hulu has grown from 63 million total streams in April 2008 to 373 million in April 2009
31. 25% of Americans in the past month said they watched a short video…on their phone
32. According to Jeff Bezos 35% of book sales on Amazon are for the Kindle when available
33. 24 of the 25 largest newspapers are experiencing record declines in circulation because we no longer search for the news, the news finds us.
34. In the near future we will no longer search for products and services they will find us via social media
35. More than 1.5 million pieces of content (web links, news stories, blog posts, notes, photos, etc.) are shared on Facebook…daily.
36. Successful companies in social media act more like Dale Carnegie and less like David Ogilvy Listening first, selling second
37. Successful companies in social media act more like party planners, aggregators, and content providers than traditional advertiser

Chopper

 
SOA move over :-)

Long live Kelly Binley, rest in peace

Today at 4:10 a.m. Kelly passed away. She is survived by her son Kurt and our daughter Sam. She was a wonderful person and mother, and she will be missed by many.

Bud Selig should be fired!

I am amazed as more stories continue to surface regarding steroid use in Major League Baseball how Bud Selig has kept his job and not been disband from baseball all together.

The rise of steroids in baseball was transparent to the world. Suddenly aging stars were having their most productive years at the end of their careers. Just look at the original Barry and the pumped up Barry. Suddenly in 2000, an older slower Barry is knocking more balls out of the park. Mark McGwire suddenly had a long forehead, and is hitting 24 homeruns to 70 in one season, humm something has changed. Now long after the fact the witchhunt is on for former MLB players - why? Why not focus on the top of the problem, the man that let it exist, profit from it the most, and did nothing to address it in a timely fashion - Bud Selig.

The single worst side effect of this entire scandel is that the game will never recover. This is a sport that is built and measured on statistics, and now this will never matter. There will be no more legends of MLB, what will you compare them to? So as the leader of the sport during the darkest peroid of history - Bud Selig should be fired!

Sam at Elk Fest

 
Sam, Kari and I spent the weekend at Elk Fest in Spokane. The Elk is a bar that host concerts in the street in Spokane. We had a great time.

Haircut against Cancer

 
I have someone close to me who is battling cancer. I told her if she lost her hair again I would shave my head. So here it is, a picture of my hair going away!

Sam at Santana Row

 

Sammy motorcycle shopping

 

Happy 50th to Vic

 

We spent last weekend celebrating our friend Vic's 50th birthday driving around Northern Ca wine country. It is a tough life and someone has to do it.

Wine tasting

 

Kari and I were traveling around Gilroy area tasting wines, and she had some company!

New car day!

 
Sam, Ben (boyfriend), Kari and I went car shopping in Spokane and found Sam a great deal on a Beetle. She was very happy!

Sad Day

I just received recent news that someone very close to me was dying of terminal cancer. No words come to mind on how I am to process such terrible news. I need to help her and those around her on how to say goodbye. Today is a very sad day.

My childhood house

 

This was the house I lived in from very young to sixth grade. There are a lot of great memories from this home.

Quote from Benjamin Franklin

"An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest."

Kari at the Boardwalk

 

Sam in San Francisco

 

Quote from Jeff Bezos

"A brand for a company is like a reputation for a person. You earn reputation by trying to do hard things well."

Quote from Confucius

"Before you embark on a journey of revenge, dig two graves."

Quote from Cicero

"To be content with what one has is the greatest and truest of riches."

Quote from Jay Leno

"Here's something to think about: How come you never see a headline like 'Psychic Wins Lottery'?"