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Re: Social Networking More Popular Than Email

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Re: Social Networking More Popular Than Email

John — Tue, 05 May 2009 15:41:44 -0000

Social Networking sites are bound to overtake even email as a primary form of communication. Instead of 'send me an email' it will be 'Twitter me' or 'Send me a Facebook message' etc. I think over the next 5 years we will see a huge shift towards these Networks of communication, picking up the phone to make a call may seem laughable in 2010, it will all be online video conferencing directly to your network of friends and family by then.

Re: Social Networking More Popular Than Email

Claire — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 05:52:03 -0000

Social Networking can serve a higher cause than email. Besides connecting people with the same ideals, these people can actually achieve something together. On www.pifworld.com people and development projects are brought together to make a positive change worldwide. The platform aimes for goals that can never be reached through email.

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Re: Social Networking More Popular Than Email

Tom Culler — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 16:04:08 -0000

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Re: Social Networking More Popular Than Email

Steven Duque — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 15:48:19 -0000

Extremely interesting, clever article on the mischaracterization and underestimation of the Facebook's role in contemporary society, despite its seeming triviality by Greg Atwan, writer of "The Facebook Book" and "Privilege":

Excerpt:
"Facebook is the largest photo-sharing site on the Internet—easily beating out dedicated snapshot studio Flickr. This is no college-quad feat: Photos are only increasingly critical in spreading information, and Facebook’s photojournalistic capacity is still untapped. (It’s not unreasonable to imagine that this Depression’s Agee and Evans will have nothing but a Facebook album.)

More importantly, it’s the youth’s medium of choice for sending messages (it’s more popular than email), planning events, and organizing politically. Other sites (Friendster) have made good in the short-term by offering the sort of space Grigoriadis describes for nugatory gossip and amorous overtures, but Facebook has won the battle by getting its users addicted to its infrastructure."

Re: Social Networking More Popular Than Email

Sunny — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 10:46:39 -0000

Yes you are right

Re: Social Networking More Popular Than Email

Casey Parker — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 12:17:15 -0000

The percentage includes social networking and blogs. Did Nielsen draw this conclusion? Otherwise, I think your article is misleading.

Re: Social Networking More Popular Than Email

Facebook User — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 14:34:00 -0000

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Re: Social Networking More Popular Than Email

Scott — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 11:58:01 -0000

I also have 2 younger kids and they will text me from a different room on the house, so I know that texting and social networking is the wave of the future, I have just joined a new service for all social networking sites.You connect the application to your social network page and friends who visit your site can text you from your page to your phone. My kids are all over it. On a total side note, you can make money by using the service. Check out the video explaining it at www.lichattotext.com
Good Luck

Re: Social Networking More Popular Than Email

Jatinder Kapur — Sat, 14 Mar 2009 00:33:50 -0000

I think both social networks and emails will have there own place in future.

Re: Social Networking More Popular Than Email

David Culbertson — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 10:31:03 -0000

This report is being overhyped, in my opinion. This report measures activities over a year, not daily activities. According to the Pew Internet, social networks lag far behind search and email as a daily activity. Will this change over time? Perhaps, but not until you can do a complete search from Facebook or Twitter; and get your email too. It seems more likely to me that Google's universal search will expand to include Twitter posts and FB profiles. Or perhaps Google will give better insights into real-time search data they already have.

Re: Social Networking More Popular Than Email

Scott Burns — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 13:35:23 -0000

This is valuable research and calls attention to the growth of social media as a channel. I think the "horse race" mentality between channels is a little distracting. New channels emerge because they fill a role that old channels didn't fill effectively. Over 300 government agencies use my companies platform for digital communication. Email continues to be the most powerful channel and well used channel by a landslide. However, social media is filling critical needs where email really fell short. Interestingly, we're seeing exponential increases in interest in email communication from the government even as social media use also grow dramatically. The channels appear to be feeding / complementing each other very well. More on my take here: http://tinyurl.com/bqja3

Re: Social Networking More Popular Than Email

steve dodd — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 10:10:14 -0000

I'm still very concerned about user privacy in the SM domain. Tools are widely distributed that can analyze publicly available content. Email is "relatively" private. Social Media is not. If people become too "trusting" of this new technology, the impact could be devastating. Identity theft is at an all time high and growing equally as fast as social networking itself. All SM players are trying to commercialize to stay alive. Ultimately this may mean using the data posted freely on their sites for commercial gain. There is no free ride, never has been, never will be.
One final thought, if anyone thinks the "bad guys" are not spending tonnes of money to figure out how to "capitalize" on this trend, you're living in a cloud........IMO.

Re: Social Networking More Popular Than Email

Mike Foster — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 03:42:57 -0000

Social networking is one of the fastest growing industries in the world, with sites like Facebook adding extradinary number every day. I try to keep up, but it's exhausting, leading me to create this music video: Social Networking Blues

peace,
mike

Re: Social Networking More Popular Than Email

astralislux — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 02:47:27 -0000

Instant messaging has been around for a long time. But once you get out of college, running around socializing all day isn't the priority in life. Business and family take over and email becomes a much more convenient message delivery system.

Additionally, instant messaging in business has always been around. Every heard of MSN Messenger? There's also Google Talk.

Re: Social Networking More Popular Than Email

astralislux — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 02:43:40 -0000

People said the same thing about RSS Feeds -- that they'll take over email. It didn't happen.

Re: Social Networking More Popular Than Email

John Herrington — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 14:01:11 -0000

Good post. Did Nielsen release any frequency numbers on email versus community usage? Seems like that might be a more compelling argument if people are using Facebook everyday versus their email once a week. I have my doubts though.

Re: Social Networking More Popular Than Email

Ryan Biddulph — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 12:33:37 -0000

Very impressive numbers for both myspace and facebook.

Most people know how much that social networking has exploded over the years but these stats are still pretty amazing. I don't see a change in these trends anytime soon as more and more people are becoming computer literate and have a desire to connect with others.

Ryan

Re: Social Networking More Popular Than Email

jameswatt — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 12:27:36 -0000

Social networking is the best way to remain connected

Re: Social Networking More Popular Than Email

Will Buddha Weatherby — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 10:45:29 -0000

I have basically switched from writing a blog to posting on Facebook because of the feedback from people in my community. I have hundreds of posts to date and a couple of other very active friends (out of hundreds) as well. It is so much more useful for me than email or a blog in many ways.

Re: Social Networking More Popular Than Email

kevinmontgomery — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 09:47:37 -0000

Prowse, Are you referring to the old snail mail? I killed that years ago! Back then i couldn't afford to keep up with it.........and those addresses are long gone.
You make a good point on not killing your email marketing though. Email for me is still the portal to link to all the other social networks with a fan.
I use all the social networks that you mention currently...... myspace, facebook, skype, twitter.....and good old email.
Oh, and yes, i have a blog. http://www.kevinmontgomery.com
I never got into the forum thing? Explain how you think it would be more productive than a blog with "friend connect" say as your commenting system?
Kevin
Kevin

Re: Social Networking More Popular Than Email

netlatch — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 08:59:28 -0000

I wonder if you took away either social networking or email, which would have a more devastating effect on society. Popularity does not equate to importance.

Re: Social Networking More Popular Than Email

pnw fitness — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 06:31:24 -0000

I don't really email with family and friends at all. I don't even know a lot of my friend's email addresses, and these are people I've known a decade +.

About the only people I email are those I know over 50 & my clients. Generally the clients are close to, or to way older than 50 also.