Hooray hooray! It’s a Mel’s Top Ten day!
We’re going to chat about an article I saw on Hubspot by Pamela Vaughan called, How Social Media Is a Lot Like Sex [DATA] #socialmushing.
You’re locked in after seeing that title, aren’t you? What Vaughan goes on to illustrate, via a series of slides, is how certain statistics about social media are oddly similar to statistics about sex… and particularly related to Gen Y.
I’m going to pull 10 from the list of 22 and leave it up to you to head on over to the article and check out the rest in the list. Or, you could just view them in the slide deck Hubspot provided too. Your choice! Here we go…
Scandalous!
Mel’s Top Ten
- 83% of 18-29 year olds are active in social media.
- 70% of people ages 30-49 are active in social media.
- Social networks reach 82% of the world’s internet users.
- Every 60 seconds, 66,000 things are shared on Twitter, 695,000 things are shared on Facebook, and 7,000 things are shared on LinkedIn.
- The average person spends 7 hours, 45 minutes on Facebook per month.
- A study from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business revealed that social networking is harder to resist than sex.
- 16% of people use social media to make a date.
- 91% of marketers see improved website traffic due to social media.
- 79% of marketers using social media are generating more quality leads than marketers who don’t.
- Social media and blogs reach 80% of all U.S. internet users.
There you have ’em! Some solid stats, eh? Which ones do you think are the most interesting? Most surprising? Let me know 🙂
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