Social Media: Bleak Outlook for the Future? Is Digg Only the Beginning?

Social Media: Bleak Outlook for the Future? Is Digg Only the Beginning? BROUGHT TO You BY EASYFINANCE.COM Email Password LOG IN! The omnipresence of social media is bewildering. Some skeptics thought that the rage would fade away quickly and, to some extent, they were right. Some social media websites go downhill and a smaller number of users translates to lower revenues from advertising. However, this is not always the case and some social media platforms are thriving. A DAY ON THE INTERNET (General Internet statistics 2012) @@{@ } @ 294 BILLION EMAILS ARE SENT @j@{@@@{e TIME 2 MILLION BLOG POSTS ARE WRITTEN, 770 WHICH IS ENOUGH TO FILL TIME MILLION MAGAZINE FOR YEARS VISITS: 172 4.7 BILLION MILLION FACEBOOK MINUTES TWITTER GOOGLE+ PINTEREST 40 20 17 MILLION MILLION MILLION STATUSES PHOTOS VIDEOS* UPDATED UPLOADED UPLOADED 532 250 864,000 million million hours *YOUTUBE IT IS ESTIMATED THAT By 2014, IT WILL REACH 1.85 BILLION, SOCIAL THE NUMBER OF SOCIAL NETWORK USERS IN WHICH TRANSLATES TO NETWORK 2012 WILL GROW TO 71% OF ALL INTERNET USERS 1.43 BILLION, 19.2% USERS AND 26% OF THE WORLDWIDE MORE THAN IN 2011. WORLD POPULATION. 1.66 1.43 BILLION 1.20 2013 BILLION 2012 BILLION 2011 MOBILE SOCIAL NETWORK 79.1 MILLION USERS 2015 THE NUMBER OF MOBILE SOCIAL NETWORK USERS IS PREDICTED TO GROW BY OVER 200% BETWEEN 2010 AND 2015. 23.8 MILLION 2009 FACEBOOK IS THE MOST IT MEANS THAT 11% VISITED WEBSITE ON OF THE WORLD THE INTERNET WITH POPULATION 901 MILLION HAS A FACEBOOK FACEBOOK ACTIVE USERS. ACCOUNT. ONLY IN 2011, +200,000,000 ACCOUNTS WERE ADDED. The average Facebook user: IS CONNECTED TO SPENDS AROUND 80 700 PAGES, EVENTS MINUTES HAS AND GROUPS PER MONTH ON THE SITE 130 FRIENDS FACEBOOK REACHED WITH FACEBOOK INCREASING 55% ITS CURRENT REVENUE RATE, OF GLOBAL AUDIENCE, IT WILL MAKE FROM ACCOUNTING FOR ROUGHLY 75% $4.69 $4.81 TO OF TIME SPENT ON SOCIAL NETWORKING SITES AND ONE IN EVERY SEVEN MINUTES ON EACH OF ITS 901 MILLION SPENT ONLINE GLOBALLY. USERS EACH YEAR. 20 IN JUST MINUTES: over 1.5 1.8 1 million million million million EVENT FRIEND LINKS STATUSES INVITES REQUESTS SHARED UPDATED SENT ACCEPTED 2.7 2.7 10.2 million million million PHOTOS MESSAGES COMMENTS UPLOADED SENT POSTED $1.058 BILLION FACEBOOK FOR THE FIRST REVENUE QUARTER OF 2012 $731 MILLION IN 2011 1 MILLION ACCOUNTS ARE ADDED TWITTER EVERY DAY (11 EVERY SECOND). TWITTER HAS ABOUT 500,000,000 USERS, WHO SEND 175,000,000 TWEETS EVERY DAY. PROJECTED ADVERTISING $540 MILLION BY 2014 REVENUES $259 MILLION IN 2012 THANKS TO THE GROWING WILL INCREASE TO SOCIAL POWER OF FACEBOOK $8.04 BILLION IN NETWORK AND TWITTER, THE 2012 AND NEARLY AD WORLDWIDE SOCIAL $10 BILLION IN 2013. REVENUES NETWORK REVENUES GLOBALLY $8.04 $9.99 BILLION 2012 BILLION $5.54 2013 BILLION 2011 $3.56 BILLION 2010 $2.38 BILLION 2009 IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA $3.90 BILLION $2.74 $4.81 2012 $2 BILLION 2011 BILLION BILLION 2010 $1.44 2013 BILLION 2009 SOCIAL MEDIA GOING DOWNHILL DIGG, ONCE A PROMINENT INTERNET START-UP VALUED AT MORE THAN $500,000 $160 MILLION, WAS SOLD FOR AS LITTLE AS TO NEw YORK TECHNOLOGY DEVELOPMENT FIRM BETAWORKS. RUMOUR HAS IT THAT IN 2008 Google digg $200 MILLION. WAS NEGOTIATING TAKING OVER FOR A LUDICROUS AMOUNT OF HOWEVER, THE DEAL WAS NEVER COMPLETED. Digg is not the first case oF A TRAGIC FALL. IT FOLLOWED THE STEPS OF TWO OTHER POPULAR SOCIAL MEDIA SERVICES: FRIENDSTER AND MYSPACE. IN 2008, IN 2005, frien ster o mysace apace for riends WAS SOLD FOR WAS BOUGHT $26.4 MILLION, BY NEWS CORP $580 million EVEN THOUGH JUST A FEW FOR MONTHS EARLIER, ITS ESTIMATED AND SOLD 6 YEARS LATER FOR JUST $35million. WORTH WAS BETWEEN $98 million and $273 million. Social media change the way we communicate. This is also a whole new world of opportunities for business, especially in terms of advertising. 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