Will 2009 be the Ultimate Social Year?
The Social Media phenomenon is a topic that i really like studying. I am not really sure if the audience of this blog is interested in it more than getting products exposed, but you should know that Social Media is in the base of the internet marketing business – no matter the methods, no matter the techniques, no matter the people you target, no matter your niche. If you make any money from the Internet it is because of Social Media, if you do not make any money – it is because of Social Media again. As i have said it earlier – Social Media is what you should go into in order to be successful online.
I found an article posted on Techcrunch France in January 2009, about how social networks were used globally in 2008.
The development and growth of different networks is really interesting, especially noticing the dominance of Blogger (222 million unique visitors from around the world). These figures are followed closely by Facebook with 200 million unique visitors, Myspace (around 130 million visitors) and WordPress (144 million visitors). A bit further away in terms of figures (22% lower that its closest competitor, WordPress) is Windows Live Spaces (87 million visitors)
Bellow is a more complete list of figures:
Top Social Media Sites (unique visitors as of November 2008; comScore):
Blogger (222 million)
Facebook (200 million)
MySpace (126 million)
WordPress (114 million)
Windows Live Spaces (87 million)
Yahoo Geocities (69 million)
Flickr (64 million)
hi5 (58 million)
Orkut (46 million)
Six Apart (46 million)
Baidu Space (40 million)
Friendster (31 million)
56.com (29 million)
Webs.com (24 million)
Bebo (24 million)
Scribd (23 million)
Lycos Tripod (23 million)
Tagged (22 million)
imeem (22 million)
Netlog (21 million)
We Are Social has written a very interesting article regarding social media figures in the UK, describing how swiftly we are starting to adapt to social networks. Even cell phone companies are expanding their users’ Internet options, which strengthens even more the ever more permanent connection that cell phone users have with the social web. This is surely going to make us more dependent upon such websites and to give them an even bigger place in our everyday lives.
Here is a Forrester presentation, created after the Future of the Social Web Roundtable:
Roundtable Event: The Future of the Social Web
Further reading on Social Media from previous posts:
16 March 2009 – How has the Internet influences us to be Influencers
21 December 2008 – Social Media and Success Online
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Another excellent article on a subject that you know very well, maybe its time to focus more on Social Media then finding freebies and exposing good/bad products? Don’t get me wrong I appreciate all your efforts with the freebies – and because of your help I can now find them myself, but must admit I get paranoid when some of the sites say that they know my ip address so I run! Back to the social media keep the articles flowing or recommend further reading.
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hello :) i am very happy to see you both interested in this topic.
@Sebastian – To tell you the truth my initial intention when i started blogging was exploring social media. and that was before this blog ever existed. No one was interested in it, though, no matter the SEO, no matter the really valuable information.
Then i discovered that focusing on one serious topic can not bring you regular visitors, because most of the internet users are not focused in the first place : )
Then i decided to start this blog, i tried different types of topics so that i can study further what people are really looking for. My conclusion is that people are mostly looking for information on how to get things for free. So i started giving people this kind of information. This, however, is only the one side of the coin. The other side is that after doing a lot of research through the years, i realised that people who get scammed on the internet are A LOT! I also understood that there is no place on the internet where you can be told that whatever is sold online it can be found for free. And thus i decided that i want to tell people the truth – things sold online are available for free – not some of them – all of them (it is just that i keep it ethical and do not share rapidshare and mediafire links). Everybody is struggling to sell online, and more than a half of them do not even know what they sell (affiliates), maybe because it is kept virtual and a provider does not meet their customer face to face.
Further – exposing products brought me more visitors, a lot more, i was sure of it. Thus i now have an audience of people to whom i can share my other interests and studies – in this case – Social Media. If it were not for the exposed products, maybe you would not have been here ; )
All of this sounds like e-whoring, does not it, although e-whoring is a completely different thing;)
On another, more serious not, all these mean that the Internet gets more and more crowded with people looking for information and people giving/selling information. And it is very, very hard to get audience even if you just want to give them something for free.
Besides, do not worry about the IP’s:)