DISQUS

Ottayan · 2 years ago

Any idea why India and China were excluded from the survey?

Jeff Pulver · 2 years ago

This survey seems to be a trailing indicator of where things were rather than where they are going.

With the social media transformation which has been taking place during the Summer of 2007, a similar survey should be done again in 6 months and then again in a year. The shift in the numbers would be an interesting one to take a look at.

Richard Parson · 2 years ago

I have tried myspace and facebook but every profile is of a 23 year old doing jello shots off someone abs...this is networking for professionals? Dont drink the koolaid about facebook, there's very few profesisonals let alone employed people using that. I have only seen 2 sites that have real professionals that you would actually want to contact. There is a site called Linkedin and a site called Congoo. Both those sites have some high quality executive profiles.

Marti · 2 years ago

Hi! Followed your link on Twitter. That is a really interesting article - thank you for sharing the results and your opinions! Hope you have a wonderful day!

J Perez · 2 years ago

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blonde20 · 2 years ago

Ottayan:

I sent An an email regarding your question and will get back to you on that.

Jeff:

I completely agree. I think it would be very interesting to see the change in the numbers every 6 months. With the growing popularity of social networks, results may look very different 6 months from now. I also think, as Ottayan points out, that more countries should be included in the survey.

Richard:

Regarding Facebook, I must disagree with you. There are many professionals whom I know that have left LinkedIn and are now only using Facebook for professional networking purposes.
See this article:
http://pulverblog.pulver.com/archives/007226.html

Marti:
Thanks for your kind words

J:
I will check out your site

An De Jonghe · 2 years ago

Hi Ottayan,

China & India were in the survey but didn't make it in the chart. India ended 7th and China somewhere at the end, not because of their lack of social networking but because the websurvey was in English only I think.

Hope this clearifies it somewhat.

matt · 2 years ago

Hi,

Interesting results, its a shame you couldnt get a bigger range of people. I think if you had more people from the US and UK you may find that networks such as Facebook and Myspace rank higher, again this would depend on the age group you target.

Also would be good to see more info from China, I think Xing is the biggest for them.

What was very interesting was that 44% do social networking when they turn on their pc. And these are people aged 30-40 which means there so much potential for marketing, very interesting.

blonde20 · 2 years ago

Matt:

I agree. It would have been more accurate if there was a bigger range of people. MySpace would probably have taken the lead - again, if the age group was younger.
See An's comment above regarding China.
There is a great deal of potential for marketing and business opportunities on the web. I think companies and individuals are realizing this more and more as the popularity of social networks increases.

Brian Bru · 2 years ago

Wondering how interesting this is to many people and how they would balance it as accurate,
If we take into account that the emotional dealings of networks are being measured by frame that is scientific and management linked then many may feel that it is not correct measureing TOOL
Let us look at it spritually. Various degrees of happiness exists for people to use the networks. various convincers of sharing representational systems with each other. All great leaps of sharing brought forward.
We are like cognitive children. WE move from stages of development like a child growing .ie
Nominal, to ordinal to interval and ratio. Let me explain as we understand more of life we are in a childrens race we are 3 years of age. Did we win yes or no answer.
At eight in similiar race did we win. Well not exactly but we did beat others in race.
At twelve in race Did we win, well we were seven feet infront of last pace but nearly first and they had longer legs and better trainers.

As we mature our networks become more full of information that we use to explain ourselves.
Our emotional intelligence and dependency to share grows with our unc onscious mind exploring. Our conscious mind responds to it.

Usefull study not really. Academic understanding of a world that one day has the potential to be united.

Bru from planet Uranus out.

blonde20 · 2 years ago

Brian:

I agree with you that there are many reasons why we join social networks (such as happiness, etc.) which were not measured in this study. I also agree that as we grow older, we look for different things from our social networks. However, I disagree with you saying that this is not a useful study. I believe we can learn a lot from this study - especially about the market potential of business networking on the web. I do think, as I said earlier, that this study should be repeated again in 6 months, with a larger group - covering more countries and a wider age range. Such a study will give us more accurate results. I also think that if the study had more open questions, such as "why do you join a social network?" without listing different options, but rather, letting the participant write whatever answer best fits his situation, we could get more accurate feedback.