It seems like in the last few weeks I have come across a lot of interesting social media statistics and reports. I tend to share them on Twitter and save them for future reference personally, but in an effort to make sure blog readers don't miss some of the more interesting news to pop up about social media in the last few weeks, here's my mishmash of noteworthy posts and stats:
Nervous Companies Still Pursue Social Media National brands and corporations are increasingly feeling compelled to jump into social media even when they have concerns about losing control. The most most interesting sentence in the post was this: "And one thing became clear: For now, companies seem more fearful of being left behind than they do of losing control."
Yes, Your Boss Is Checking Your Facebook Updates... 8% of companies have fired employees for their behavior on social networking sites.
...Because He Suspects You're Wasting Time Companies that allow access to Facebook lose an average of 1.5% in total employee productivity. I wonder if chatting with people in the cube or office next to you has decreased though? The bottom line on this is that time wasters will do it one way or the other. Don't let this stat be used to build a case against the usefulness of Facebook in business. Especially because...
Facebook Now Allows Search I wrote about this already so I won't rehash it here.
One In Three Videos Gets Shared A recent report showed that a third of all online videos are shared. It also revealed that viewers are twice as likely to ignore TV ads as online ads, and are 28% more likely to pay attention to online advertising.
Boomers Choosing Online Over TV A new study revealed that Baby Boomers are now spending more free time online than watching TV.
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