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Friend or foe for Cayman’s businesses?
- Social media has overtaken porn on the web
- If Facebook were a country it would be the world’s fourth largest after China, India and the US
- 80 per cent of companies are using Linked-In as their primary tool to find employees
- 80 per cent of Twitter usage is on mobile devices, so they can twitter anywhere at any time
- In 2009 Boston College stopped distributing new email addresses to incoming students
- Wikipedia has over 13 million articles and studies show it is more accurate than Encyclopedia Britannia
- The fastest growing segment of the population using Facebook is females aged 55 to 65
- Ashton Kutcher and Ellen DeGeneres have more Twitter followers than the combined entire populations of Ireland, Norway and Panama
- There are over 200,000,000 blogs and 54 per cent post content or tweet daily
- 25 per cent of search results for the world’s top 20 largest brands are links to user-generated content
- 34 per cent of bloggers post opinions about products and brands
- 78 per cent of consumers trust peer recommendations; 14 per cent trust advertisements
- 35 per cent of books sales on Amazon are for the Kindle
- 24 out of 25 of the largest newspapers are experiencing record decline in circulation
- We no longer search for the news; the news finds us
- In the near future we’ll no longer need to search for products and services; they will come to us via social media
- Social media isn’t a fad; it’s a fundamental shift in the way we communicate
- Over 1.5 million pieces of content, such as weblinks, news stories, blog posts, photos, etc, are shared on Facebook daily.