Whilst I concede that this isn’t exactly breaking news, but we all love a good stat and Social Media Revolution 2 gives us exactly that, I also concede that many of us are already converted and wise to the powers of social and the value that can gained from relationships and community online (and offline, I love a meetup..!)

The value that Socialnomics bring us in this case is an additional wave of excitement that we can share and pass on to our clients and those dipping their toe into the market, so lets draw some of these wow stat’s and anecdotes out.

-Facebook added more than 200 million new users in less than a year.
-If Facebook were a country it would be the 3rd largest in the world, bigger than the US, Brazil or Indonesia.
-80% of companies use social media for recruitment.
-The fastest growing segment is 55-65 yr old females.
-Gen Y & Gen Z consider e-mail passé.
-Wikipedia has over 15 million articles.
-There are over 200,000,000 blogs.
-25% of search results for the world’s top 20 brands are user-generated content.
-78% of consumers trust peer recommendations, of 14% trust advertisements.
-“Social Media isn’t a fad, its a fundamental shift in the way we communicate”
-“We don’t have a choice on whether we DO socialmedia, the question is how well we DO it.” Erik Qualman

And of course,
-Social Media has overtaken Pornography as #1 activity on the web…!

Take a look, Fatboyslim’s dramatic soundtrack makes #GEEK cool.

post by @BarryFurby