{"id":1948,"date":"2009-03-13T09:39:00","date_gmt":"2009-03-13T14:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2009\/03\/social-sites-trump-email\/"},"modified":"2009-03-12T13:41:11","modified_gmt":"2009-03-12T18:41:11","slug":"social-sites-trump-email","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2009\/03\/social-sites-trump-email\/","title":{"rendered":"Social Sites Trump Email"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Also from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bizjournals.com\/twincities\/stories\/2009\/03\/09\/daily13.html?ana=from_rss\" target=\"_blank\">Minneapolis-St. Paul Business Journal (emphasis mine):<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Nielsen said <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">&#8220;member communities&#8221; are now at 67 percent participation while e-mail is at 65 percent<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>The study found that of Internet users throughout the world, two-thirds visited a social networking site last year. Of those Palo Alto, Calif.-based Facebook is the leader, with visits every month by 3 of every 10 Internet users, the Nielsen study reports.<\/p>\n<p>In fact, Facebook had a 168 percent increase in users, the study said, while Mountain View, Calif.-based LinkedIn had a 137 percent increase.<\/p>\n<p>The biggest growth spurt for Facebook has been in the category of users from 35 to 49 years of age.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I believe it.\u00a0 I volunteer to work with teenagers and they all are social site users who mock my antiquated references to email.\u00a0 That is the generation moving into college and then into the work world.\u00a0 Be prepared for the change is already underway whether you realize it or not.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Also from the Minneapolis-St. Paul Business Journal (emphasis mine): Nielsen said &#8220;member communities&#8221; are now at 67 percent participation while e-mail is at 65 percent. The study found that of Internet users throughout the world, two-thirds visited a social networking site last year. Of those Palo Alto, Calif.-based Facebook is the leader, with visits every month by 3 of every 10 Internet users, the Nielsen study reports. In fact, Facebook had a 168 percent increase in users, the study said, while Mountain View, Calif.-based LinkedIn had a 137 percent increase. The biggest growth spurt for Facebook has been in the category of users from 35 to 49 years of age.&hellip; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2009\/03\/social-sites-trump-email\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"bgseo_title":"","bgseo_description":"","bgseo_robots_index":"","bgseo_robots_follow":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[14,5],"tags":[1254,1252,1251,1253],"class_list":["post-1948","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-communication","category-trends","tag-facebook-trend","tag-facebook-use","tag-social-site","tag-social-site-vs-email"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5Oho-vq","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1290,"url":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2007\/11\/linkedin-on-topfor-now\/","url_meta":{"origin":1948,"position":0},"title":"LinkedIn On Top&#8230;For Now","author":"Derrick Moe","date":"November 15, 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"Online Media Daily has a news brief regarding the fastest growing social networking sites.\u00a0 AMONG TOP SOCIAL NETWORKS, LINKED-IN was the fastest-growing over the last year, according to October ratings released Wednesday by Nielsen Online. 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