Does Social Media Define America?

AMERICANS LOVE TELEVISION AND THEY LIKE OTHERS TO KNOW IT AMERICANS ARE FOLLOWERS Nearly half of all Americans are now members of at least one social network, double the proportion of just two 77% REPORT THAT THEY USE SOCIAL years ago. MEDIA TO SHARE THEIR LOVE OF A SHOW. OUT OF ALL AMERICAN ADULTS facebook TAGGED 79% USE THE INTERNET 47% USE AT LEAST ONE SOCIAL MEDIA SITE 65% USE IT AS A twitter B Blogger 35% USE IT TO TRY PLATFORM TO In 2008, only 26 percent of HELP SAVE THEIR TO INTRODUCE adults were on online social networks. FAVORITE SHOWS. NEW SHOWS TO THEIR FRIENDS Linked in myspace AMERICANS AMERICANS HAVE A LOT TO SAY ARE INDUSTRIOUS Just under 50% of Linkedin's 120 million users are in the United States. 48% of bloggers are US-based 48% THE AMERICAN IDENTITY AMERICANS LIKE BRANDS AMERICANS LIKE TO GIVE ADVICE ACCORDINGTO Four out of ten Americans on social media platforms (identified as frequent users) are following products, services and brands. 28% of U.S. adults say they give advice about purchases on social networking sites. SOCIAL MEDIA CAN A BUNCH OF DATA ABOUT SOCIAL NETWORKING HELP US UNDERSTAND THE AMERICAN PEOPLE? AMERICANS ARE NOSTALGIC AMERICANS ARE OBSESSED WITH ROYALTY AMERICANS ARE OBSESSED WITH CELEBRITIES The average Facebook user has 229 friends. The five most followed Twitter accounts are Lady Gaga, Justin Bieber, Barack Obama, Katy Perry and Britney Spears. 65% of all social media related to the royal wedding has come from the U.S. in the past month [April). The U.K. has been responsible for just 20%. 15% OTHER 9% 22% 20% 65% ARE COLLEGE ARE PEOPLE FROM THE U.S FRIENDS FROM HIGH SCHOOL FROM THE U.K. AMERICANS WANT TO BE DISTRACTED FROM REALITY AMERICANS LOVE VIDEO GAMES Video games are the second most heavily-used internet activity, accounting for 10% of all U.S. internet time. AMERICANS ARE HYPER-SOCIAL Social media now reaches the majority of Americans 12+, with 52% having a profile on one or more social networks. The more than 63 million active users of Farmville spend an average of 15 minutes a day pretending to run a farm. Over the course of a year, that's 5,475 minutes-the equivalent of a full-time job for over two weeks! TAGGED Linedn facebook f bwikter AMERICANS ARE CONNECTED AMERICANS LOVE ROUTINE AMERICANS ARE HIGHLY INFLUENCED BY OTHERS Six out of seven American homes have broadband internet access. Of the more than 149 million Americans actively using Facebook, 70% of these active users in the U.S. The purchasing decisions of 38 million 13 to 80-year-olds in the U.S. are now influenced in various ways by social media-up 14% in just six months. log on to the social network daily. Tagged comes in 2nd with the aver- age user logging in every other day. 9 OUT OF 10 AMERICANS ARE ONLINE. 70% OF THESE ACTIVE USERS IN THE U.S. LOG ONTO THE SOCIAL NETWORK DAILY AVERAGE FRIEND REQUESTS PER TAGGED MEMBER MONTANA 401 TEXAS 282 AMERICANS ARE SOCIAL ESPECIALLY IN NORTH DAKOTA AND VERMONT 130 ALASKA 209 NORTH CAROLINA WISCONSIN 210 509 FLORIDA NEW JERSEY 307 ARKANSAS 196 NEW JERSEY GEORGIA UTAH 171 441 1,713 NORTH DAKOTA 1.056 SOUTH DAKOTA 167 IDAHO DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA 609 1OWA 181 OREGON 169 161 707 SOURCES http://www.pamorama net/2010/03/07/social-media-everybodys-doing-it-but-fordifferent-reasons-charts/ http://wwww.mediapost.com/publications/?ta-Articles.showArticle&art_aid-125870&nid-113175 http://vator.tv/news/2011-06-16-vwow-facebook-actually-makes-people-closer http://blog.hubspot.com/blog/tabid/6307/bid/5965/The-Ultimate-List-300-Social-Media Statistics.aspx?source-Webbiquity http://blog. hubze.com/2011/eight-new-findings-on-howamericans-use-social-media/ http://vator. tw/news/2011-06-16-wow-tacebook-actually-makes-people-closer (TVGuide.com study via TVNewsCheck.com) http://blog.hubze.com/2011/eight-new-findings-on-hovw-americans-use-social-media/ http://wwww.usatoday.com/life/people/2011-04-29-royal-wedding-social-media_N. htm www.tagged.com http:/www.edisonresearch.com/home/archives/2011/05/the_social_habit 2011.php http://www.techjournalsouth.com/2011,06/social-media-affects-purchase-decisions-of-39m-americans-influence-growing/ http://blog.nielsen.com/nielsenwire/online_mobile/what-americans-do-online-social-media-and-games-dominate-activity http://techcrunch.com/2011/02/10/facebook-now-has-149m-active-users-in-the-u-s-70-percent-log-on-daily http://news.cnet.com/8301-27078_3-20014817-248.htmi#ixzz1TrWVHBLB/ http://twitaholic.com/top 100/followers/ http://press.linkedin.com/about http://venturebeat.files wordpress.com/2011/03/final_520px.png?w=520&h=2370 http://wwww.marketwire.com/press-release/uff-da-and-hello- there-north-dakota-revealed-to-be-most-social-state-in-the-union-1540762 htm INFOGRAPHIC BROUGHT TO YOU BY HASA http://about-tagged.com/company/tacts