Recently a few reports have surfaced with some interesting facts on social networks. These stats depict the importance of social media and how it will and is changing the world of job-hunting and recruiting:
- Average ages of social media users Twitter 31, Facebook 33, LinkedIn 39, MySpace 26
- 226 million job related searches on Google EACH MONTH
- 2/3 of the global internet population use social networks today (just recently eclipsed email as the top activity online)
- 300 million user profiles on FB (100 million new profiles in 6 months)
- 45 million user profiles on LI (1 million new users in 12 days)
- 200 million blogs on the internet (1 new blog every second)
- YouTube is now the #2 search engine on the web behind Google (not Bing, Yahoo, AskJeeves)
- 100 million videos viewed on YouTube every day (each person watches about 5 videos per month)
- 11% of the US population uses Twitter (3 million "tweets" per day)
- 100k+ employment websites on the internet
