Do Real Men Live On Facebook?
Skunkworks Marketing Solutions Expert Marketing Service Reports on the Phenomenon of Social Networks
Facebook, MySpace, Twitter and the multitude of sites have evolved from a college fad to global ubiquity in seven years. The best internet marketing agency in West Palm Beach, Florida states that the truly sophisticated use social media as a tool to market their business, not to waste time showing off their ego. The amount of time spent on social media sites and the value of the content posted there is an insight to a person’s soul.
Facebook, launched at Harvard University in 2004 has grown to more than 250 million people in 170 countries. If Facebook were a county, it would be the fourth most populous country in the world. Approximately 50% of Facebook’s members frequent the site every day. Seven million Twitter users broadcast 18 million communications per day. MySpace has 125 million users. LinkedIn for professional networkers has 40 million members.
A recent report by Nielson states that social networking is now the fourth most popular online activity. Time spent on social media sites is increasing at three times the rate of overall internet usage which represents approximately 10 percent of time spent online. Fueling the social media craze is the increased use of mobile devices.
Social networks can lessen loneliness and boost self esteem. They can also have the opposite effect. Scientists and psychologists are studying the effects of social media on people. Do the millions of social network users realize that they are engaged in the largest experiment in social interaction ever conducted? This internet marketing consultant based in West Palm Beach, Florida believes that people have not yet realized how to reap the true benefits of social media. Skunkworks Marketing Solutions even offers a course entitled “We take the ‘social’ out of social media” which teaches how to effectively harness the power of social media to promote their business.
Social networking is an incredibly important phenomenon due to its ability to infiltrate our lives and effect what we think and feel. A transformational current is surging. What started as an online fad will become a global force. Social networking will surely become a part of every communication tool we use.
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