Tuesday, September 8, 2009

If Facebook were a country, it would have the world's fourth largest population

Interesting discussion on how the over-35 online audience has fueled the growth of social media. NPR Science Friday's Ira Flatow interviewed Sean Corcoran of Forrester Research last week. On Facebook: "If they were a country, population-wise at this point globally, they would be number four behind China, India and the United States." What can we do with this unchanneled power? Only 30% of usage is from the US. Follow this always-worthwhile show on Twitter @scifri, or better yet, join the Second Life meeting concurrent with the show. Great combination of intelligence and snarkiness. It's one of my favorite spots in Second Life.

But back to Facebook. What will all of us do, collectively, with the power of the network? It could be argued that we (social media users) are already a nation.

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