When I put a message on Twitter (www.twitter.com) it doesn’t just stay on my Twitter page. It is transported throughout the world to currently 73,000+ other Twitter pages. If I don’t like you and I feel like saying so, then at least 73,000 other people could get to know about it with the press of [...]
But, in the recent past, social media has changed beyond all of what we would have previously recognised. It has become more “in your face”, more pertinent, more prominent and more effective. People are flocking to social media like never before and the number of participants has skyrocketed beyond all proportion. Facebook, one popular social [...]
It is not only individuals, groups and businesses that are using social media. The law enforcement agencies are too. And it may not be overt as there is evidence that they are going undercover with false profiles. This is all very well if it is to catch the scum sex pests and major criminals. But [...]
Do you use Facebook? Perhaps you think it to be about young people exchanging immature views, getting together and sharing their favorite music, photos and videos. (SIDEBAR: There is NOTHING wrong with this in any case. If you have a product or service that appeals to this particular group {read – “anything” they use, look [...]
A few statistics to whet your appetite for social media in your business: 350 million people use Facebook throughout the world and more than half of these log in every day. 55 million status updates are posted each day and more than 2.5 billion images uploaded each month. There’s more …. Twitter announced 30 million [...]