A few years back Erik Qualman made a powerful video that put the staggering numbers of social media in a highly watchable format. Social Media Revolution is a classic.
What’s great about the video is you can show it to anyone who doesn’t comprehend the impact of social media – more specifically The Social Web – and in a few minutes after they watched it you could actually see the light bulb go on. He has since made a number of updated versions.
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★ Social Media Is About Made-Up Stats ★
The good people over at The Poke had a little too much time on their hands and had a lot of fun with Erik’s idea.
Take a look, have a laugh, and share a few fake stats with your social network.
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60% Of Under-20s Read One Book A Year – It’s Called Facebook Click To Tweet
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There are now more social media consultants in U.S. than children under five. Click To Tweet
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The world’s second most common lie after “I love you, too” is: “You have successfully been unsubscribed from our database.” Click To Tweet
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If Twitter raised it the character limit from 140 to 200 it would finally allow 90 million German speakers to finish a sentence. Click To Tweet
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Facebook has a 75% share of the market on meaningless dribble posted by people you never see anymore. Click To Tweet
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If you arranged every MySpace user in a line, it would stretch almost all the way around the Facebook campus. Click To Tweet
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1 in 3 burglars is an eBay Powerseller. Click To Tweet
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By the end of 2013 an estimated 950 children will have first names that begin with @, e.g., @teve, @lice, @hris. Click To Tweet
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In their lifetime, a web user spends 15 days deleting ‘Enter your search here’ text from search boxes. Click To Tweet
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27% of Facebook’s Server capacity is used to store the word “LOL”. Click To Tweet
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The world’s second most common lie after “I love you, too” is: “You have successfully been unsubscribed from our database.” http://bit.ly/Nc7BXf #FakeStats
Biztag
June 10, 2012
…….I see the light!! Lol thx for the link, Social Media Revolution! @biztag
Ian Hough (@IanHough)
February 17, 2013
I enjoyed the list of links there…hilarious…1 in 3 burglars is an eBay powerseller…The thing about there being more social media experts than children under 5 in America made me almost believe it, because the “gurus” have truly taken over the asylum. On Friday I wrote a review of BJ Mendelson’s “Social Media is Bullshit” which you can read here: http://www.ticketliquidator.com/livetoast/2013/02/Book-Review-Social-Media-is-Bullshit-by-BJ-Mendelson.aspx if you’re interested. Articles like this, whether joking or not, are a breath of fresh air. I urge you to turn your assault onto SEOs next, for they are surely even more full of bullsh*t than the social media ninjas. Or is it sherpas, I forget…?