socialmedian: Social Networking Now More Popular Than Email, Report Finds

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In 2008 Facebook added 2x 50-64 year olds ( 13.6M) than <18 year olds By jasongoldberg

Mar 10, 2009

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Social Networking Now More Popular Than Email, Report Finds

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Mar 09, 2009

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Nielsen Online, an analytics firm that tracks time spent online at various websites, has issued a report finding that throughout 2008 social networking sites and blogs saw more time spent by users than personal email. While not shocking, the finding does mark an important point in the history of the web.

Youth watchers have long argued that for young people, email is how you communicate with elders in formal situations, while social networks and SMS are the preferred method of communication among peers. Nielsen found, however, that Facebook in particular saw greater growth among older people than it did among the young.

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This shift has primarily been driven by Facebook whose greatest growth has come from people aged 35-49 years of age (+24.1 million). From December 2007 through December 2008, Facebook added almost twice as many 50-64 year old visitors (+13.6 million) than it has added under 18 year old visitors (+7.3 million)

Our take away from these findings? People prefer the clean, controlled, multi-media and publicly social experience of social netw

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Comments (2)

Nishith,

Mar 10, 2009

Neither Facebook nor twitter can take the place of email for me. Not yet.

Emmravalimanana,

Mar 11, 2009

Facebook is the best way to visit/to see the world in a few time. Not only it has an amount of nice various applications from usefull applications such as Time Zone, Google Earth and more to the hobbies such games for brain development BUT you meet too from Facebook differents cultures: foods, languages, fashions, movies, news, friends, family, .... . Some of them as a link so you can develop your view to everything to a few time!
ONLY, I don't use Facebook for professional exchange mails.