Still think social media is a bubble? Then we go to you

I found today on JumpTheCurve.net such a propaganda video. At first, I decided to just translate its text and put it in “The Future is Here”, but the translation turned out to be somewhat boring and not very clear from the point of view of the Russian-speaking user. So I had to add some comments from heterogeneous users :).




Social networks are bullshit, aren't they?
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Or is it the biggest shift since the Great October Industrial Revolution?

The revolution begins. Welcome! Welcome! Bienvenido! Bienvenu! Wilkommen! No?%; No?% ( Niasilil patamushta eroglyphs - approx. Transl. )

By 2010, the number of generation Y (we call them Yulattam - approx. Habrastasarozhil) will exceed the number of "baby boomers".

96% of them belong to social networks. (It turns out that the remaining 4% come out of social networks - approx. Little Ea)

Social media bypassed porn as a perversion of the number 1 activity number 1 on the WWW.

Every 8th family created in the past year in the United States met through social media. (and how many thanks to them they divorced! - a comment of a staunch bachelor)

Number of years before reaching a 50 million audience:
Radio: 38 years
TV: 13 years
Internet: 4 years
iPod: 3 years (similar to the authors of the video, someone paid ... - non-commentary comment)

Facebook: added 100 million users in less than 9 months

The number of downloads of applications for the iPod has reached 1 billion in 9 months. (How many unborn children are killed! - comment of potsreot)

If Facebook were a country, it would be the 4th in the world in terms of population:
1. China, 2. India, 3. USA, 4. Facebook (and here before there was the USSR - a comment of the Union of Leningrad Communists) , 5. Indonesia, 6. Brazil, 7. Pakistan, 8. and here they are not Russia, Bangladesh ... (let's move them to Chukotka, at the same time and in the rating we will advance - note of the oligarch who wished to remain anonymous)
BUT
The Chinese QZone is even bigger - the number of its users exceeds 300 million (kopets, what would happen if they simultaneously stomp their left foot ... - note of the sinophobe)

In 2009, a study by the US Department of Education showed that, on average, the success of online students was higher than that of those who had studied in the traditional way “face to face” (not to be confused with “he is behind”, “she is on top” and other Latin heresy! - O. Fedor)
1 of 6 university students are enrolled in the online form of education.

80% of companies use LinkedIn as their primary employee search tool. (urgently ran to register - approx. transl.)
The fastest growing segment of Facebook is women aged 55-65 years. (did you buy mom a separate comp,% username%? - comment of conscience translated.)

Ashton Kutcher and Ellen DeGeneres (who are they? - Wolfram Alpha) have more Twitter followers than the entire population of Ireland, Norway and Panama.

80% of Twitter use cases are on mobile devices. (I’m saying they paid for it, well, why is that “mobile device” that is meant exactly?
Update always and everywhere (for any food - approx. Transl. Ancient advertising ketchup Heinz)
Imagine what that means for bad customer reviews? (rope and soap in the locker, a chandelier on the ceiling - pessimist)

Generations Y and Z are sending email to the dustbin of history. (and spammers at her cemetery - comment of an unknown girl outfit)
In 2009, Boston College stopped distributing email addresses to new entrants. (so ended the notorious "eternal September", unfortunately, only in a single college: (- web archivist comment)

What happens in Vegas, remains in Facebook, Twitter, Orkut, Bebo, Flickr, Digg, MySpace, YouTube (TPB, Rapidshare, IFolder, Infostore - a comment conscious fighter against the tyranny of copyright)
Youtube - search engine number 2 in the world.
Youtube> 100,000,000 videos.

Wiki - in Hawaiian means "fast." (and in Russian "encyclo" - approx. transl.)
Wikipedia contains over 13 million articles.
Studies show that it is more accurate than the Britanica encyclopedia. (and the monarchy has long been in / dev / null - Prince William's comment)
78% of these articles are not in English. (here there were 128 identical comments with hieroglyphs, I had to ban IP by mask - admin comment)
If you were paid $ 1 each time an article is published on Wikipedia, you would have earned $ 156.23.
AT ONE O'CLOCK. (in shit ... - a comment of the representative of the budget segment of the sex business)

The number of blogs exceeds 200,000,000. (This is even more than 9,000 times 9,000 times - approx. Anonymous Fields award)
54% of bloggers post content or tweet daily.

OBS (the original was Word of Mouth - approx. Transl.)
25% of the search results for the top 20 global brands are links to three fun letters user-generated content (UGC).
34% of bloggers publish opinions about products and brands. (reviews of the remaining 66% do not pass profanity filters - Ed.)

Do you like what they say about your brand?

People pay more attention to the rating of products and services on social networks than their rating on Google. (well, I told you, garbage is your SEO! - comment SMOshnika)
78% of consumers trust the recommendations of colleagues.
Only 14% trust advertising. (where are they all hanging around? - comment of the head doctor of the Kashchenko hospital)

Only 18% of traditional TV advertising campaigns generate a positive ROI. (and a positive lol is only 0.18% - note of the bourgeois)
Among TiVo users, this figure is 90%. (in the sense of the first, the second over 9000 - Captain Obvious)

Hulu grew (grew, grew? - a comment ed.) A total of c 63 million flows in April 2008 to 373 million in April 2009. (and @ w m @ k vyr @ stet after taking @ n @ of our tools @ - comment, judging by the soap, by some Alenka)

70% 18..34-year-olds watched TV through this one, like his, well, which is in the computer ... - approx. happy grandmother have vacated the TV .
... and only 33% did it through DVR / TiVo (you need to shoot these perverts: (- comment of the erecting jack)

25% of Pindos Americans last month stated under oath that they watched short porn videos on the phone (well, what did I say? Exactly perverts - an ejaculating comment)

35% of book sales on Amazon are for the Kindle. (and in Iraq 100% voted for Hussein. There is something to strive for - note. alter-globalist)

24 of the 25 largest newspapers are experiencing a record drop in circulation. (and the 25th is breaking demand records due to printing on toilet paper - note of the crisis manager)

We are no longer looking for news, they find us themselves. (“Nuclear attack! Everybody take the documents, put them on the ground and lie down on top to facilitate the identification of the corpses!” - Soviet Information Bureau)
In the near future, we will no longer look for products and services - (well, yes, of course, what’s the point of looking for something that hasn’t been there for long - comment of the asshole)
they will find us through social media. (well, yes, they will get us out of the ground exactly - the comment of the conspiracy theorist)

So, love friends, social media is not a bullshit.
This is a fundamental phase shift in the way we communicate.

More than 1.5 million pieces of content
(web links, news articles, blog posts, notes, photos, etc. ) - skeptic )
laid out to the delight of voyeurs on Facebook
DAILY. (and how much every night ... - comment of a dialup operator with experience)

“It's an economy, stupid” (James Carville's longtime friend , 1992)
“The economy is driven by stupid people” ( Yoda, 20009 Erik Qualman, 2009)

Successful social media companies act more like Dale Carnegie than like Sergey Mavrodi David Ogilvy.
First listen, then sell. (otherwise, etsih with nails. - approx. Mr. RV)

Successful social media companies act like party organizers, aggregators, and content providers, rather than as traditional advertisers. (for those already pulled up - approx. transl., Ed. and all other commentators)

Still think social media is bullshit? (it’s a pity there is no friend Beria with us, would you have thought with him ... - approx. VVZh)

Welcome to the world of Socialism Socialism ™ (™, I said! Who is there shouting “netbook”? - copywriter comment)
You are ready? (judging by the state of the world economy, not yet - approx. N. Taleb and N. Rubini)

“H. s. Respect and respect for all social data! they are on www.socialnomics.com . B / n and b / ™ ”- approx. @ EqualOn