Socialnomics data points

• Over 50% of the world's population is under 30 years old.

• 96% of millennials have joined a social network.

• Facebook tops google for weekly traffic in the US

• Social media has overtaken porn as the #1 activity on the web.

• 1 out of 8 couples married in the US met via social media.

• Years to reach a million users...  Radio 38 years, TV 13 years, Internet 4 years, iPod 3 years, Facebook added 200 million users in less than a year.

• iPod app downloads hit 1 billion in 9 months.

• If Facebook were a country it would be the world's 3rd largest.  1. China, 2. India. 3. Facebook, 4. US, 5. Indonesia, 6. Brazil, 7. Pakistan, 8. Bangladesh.

• US Department of Education study revealed that online students out performed those receiving face to face instruction.

• 80% of companies use social media for recruitment, 95% of those use Linkedin.

• The fastest growing segment on Facebook is 55-65 year old females.

• Ashton Kutcher and Britney Spears have more Twitter follows than the entire populations of Sweden, Israel, Switzerland, Ireland, Norway, and Panama.

• 50% of the mobile internet traffic in the UK is Facebook.

• YouTube is the 2nd largest search engine in the world, in 4.5 minutes 100+ hours will be uploaded.

• Wikipedia has over 15 million articles, studies show it's as accurate as Encyclopedia Britannica, 78% of these articles are non-English.

• There are over 200,000,000 blogs.

• 25% of search results for the world's top 20 largest brands are links to user-generated content.

• 34% of bloggers post opinions about products and brands.

• People care more about how their social graph ranks products and services than how google ranks them.

• 78% of consumers trust peer recommendations, only 14% trust advertisements

• Only 18% of traditional TV campaigns generate positive a positive return on investment (ROI).

• 90% of people skip ads via Tivo/DVR.

•  Kindle eBooks outsold paper books on Christmas.

• 24 of the 25 largest newspapers are experiencing record declines in circulation.

• 60 million status updates happen on Facebook daily.

• We no longer search for news, the news finds us.

• We will no longer search for products and services.  They will find us via social media.

• Social media is a fundamental shift in the way we communicate.

• ROI of social media is that your business will still exist in 5 years.

very interesting data points as shared by Socialnomics

Thoughts on Ecosystems

Ecosystems are industries or communities around the things that matter to us as a collective society.  Churches, businesses, recreation centers, schools, technology, even governments are ecosystems.  Some ecosystems interact with or influence others and are driven by or changed by your participation in them.  

Apps facilitate or accelerate the exchange of information and services within ecosystems.  iAppTrust develops products to improve the delivery and the manner in which ecosystems function and in so doing changes the way ecosystems perform for us.

Improvements in time and results are realized when we utilize an Apps full potential to get things accomplished.  This is important.  Apps will enhance ecosystems and thereby better enable better quality of life for you, your family and communities.

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We all want content (information) and services that are unique to us, from sources we trust, shared with those we decide to share our interests with for their unique opinion and impressions, and finally to have everything securely remembered and our preferences intelligently working to improve delivery of more precise results, relevant meaningful options, for an enhanced quality of life.

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