Myspace is dead, and may never be revived, despite the techno-powers of Justin Timberlake.
LinkedIn, in my humble opinion, sucks like Electrolux.
Facebook is for friends and family, not networking and marketing.
Also, while the Twitter is rising up to swallow the series of tubes and make more money than God, The Twitter, it is NOT for selling books.
HOWEVER: those are my evil opinions.
What you want to see is this spiffy chart made by Ignite Social Media.
What's really going on with social media? How about some science. I like my social media with a side of science. Also, ranch. Sometimes blue cheese. Never, never Italian, or Thousand Island.
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Reformed journalist. Scribbler of speeches and whatnot. Wrote a thriller that was a finalist for some award.
My humble opinion is you use the sites you like and connect with people on because you are on there regularly. No point having a profile for a site you don’t use just because it’s on some list of “what’s hot.”
I know many corporate friends who use LinkedIn all the time to recruit for job openings and if I were looking for a corporate job I’d be on there every day. LUCKILY it hasn’t come to that this year.
Now I’m using the Twitter more and making new friends and connections. When your focus changes you need to try new things and then stick with what works for you.
I just joined Stumbleupon but I’m not sure how that’s going to go. It’s not so intuitive to post a blog.
That’s my 2euros from abroad.
What you say is packed full of Truthiness.
Those graphs of winners and losers go up to 2011, so it’s not current. Also, Stumbleupon rising? Really?
What’s still interesting is the way overall search interest peaked in 2009 and has since levelled off. The novelty is wearing off now people are starting to realise that other ways of talking to each other are still valid.
My mileage, she is varying.
No twitter? Who the hell were they talking to?
Eh, LinkedIn is what it is: a professional version of Facebook. By definition it’s gonna be about as exciting as a bank lobby.
And being an Luddite, I did call a saturation point for social media a while ago. Social media has it’s uses but in the time I’ve been on Facebook, I’ve seen it’s usage decline in my personal circles. And I knew from my personal habits that the sky was not the limit, despite it’s portrayal during the boom. Most of us have lives to live that are not Twitter or Facebook centered. And plus, there’s the “oh this is cool – hmmm this looks the same as yesterday – I’m bored, let’s go do something else” cycle of all media.
Also, to repeat Kimberly’s point where is Twitter in this mix? And Facebook attracts alot of old farts, thanks to their grown up kids being on it. I’m really wondering about the methodology in those charts.
I’m with Kim. I haven’t heard of a lot of these.
Wow. It’s shocking to me that Twitter is not on these charts and that I haven’t even heard of some of these. (Not that I’m some social networking god. I’m not. But still, wow!)