10 Facts About Social Networking

Here are 10 facts about social networks you probably don't know.

1. Nearly 1.3 billion users logged onto one of the top 20 networking sites in 2009.
2. In 2009, Facebook surpassed MySpace traffic and became more visited than Yahoo.
3. MySpace still boasts nearly 57 million unique visitors a month.
4. There are now 1.5 million local businesses on Facebook.
5. Currently, 91% of mobile web users are using some kind of social networking site from their mobile device.
6. Facebook claims there are currently 400 million active users on their network.
7. Facebook also claims that 50% of its users log on every day. Meaning it has nearly 200 million users online per day.
8. In the month of January 2010, Facebook saw 25.1 million mobile users while MySpace had 11.4 million and Twitter saw 4.7 million mobile users.
9. LinkedIn is currently growing at a rate of 1 million users a month.
10. At the end of 2009, Twitter claimed there were 1.3 million tweets per hour.

Now you should have a really clear understanding of why social networks can help businesses and organizations. People are now beginning to use social networking sites more often than they use search engines. This trend shows the importance of having social networking accounts for your business as well as your own web site.

We also wanted to leave you with 10 professional opinions about social networking, so here they are.

1. MySpace is one of the most useful tools for promoting a musician.
2. Social networks are excellent ways to get feedback from you clients or fans.
3. MySpace still allows you to completely customize your layout, making it easy to add widgets and other promotional content to your page.
4. Tweeting on Twitter is an excellent way to keep people informed with what is happening with you company, organization, or band.
5. Eventful is an excellent tool for anyone that holds events and wants to keep their followers updated.
6. Sites like Flickr and Photobucket are great for anyone who needs to show off pictures or designs.
7. Facebook has great ways to keep people up-to-date with functions like your Wall, Photos, and Discussion boards.
8. LinkedIn leans more towards helping professionals and business people in general keep in touch.
9. Blogger is probably the best blog site to get information out to clients.
10. MySpace is still our favorite social networking site because we can make you a layout that looks like a web site.

References

http://blog.compete.com
http://www.web-strategist.com
http://techcrunch.com
http://www.facebook.com/press/info.php?statistics
http://www.socialnetworkingwatch.com
http://econsultancy.com