Matt+Dimmock's+Social+Media+Is+About+Notes

Know -Facebook has effected the world in a huge way, positive and negative, people thrive around what people put on it -Facebook is taking over what social media is and is becoming an obsession in people's eyes

Want to know -Why is social media such a big part of business these days? -And how did it get this way? -How did social media sites get so big so fast and have so much publicity -Why doesn't China allow social media networks? -Why do over 6 times as many people trust peer recommendations over advertisements?

Learn -50% of population is under 30 years old -1 in 5 divorces blame facebook -Kindergardners learn on ipads nowadays -If Facebook were a country it would be the third largest country in the world -Most social medias not aloud in China -Ads on Facebook generated more then some of the super bowl ads during super bowl -Social gamers will buy 6 billion in virtual goods by 2013, movie goers buy only 2.5 blillion in real goods -If wikipedia were made into a book it would be 2.25 million pages long and would take you over 123 years to read -Youtube is the 2nd largest search engine in the world -93% of marketers use social media for business