This eventually translated and graduated into Facebook statuses

[zihadhasan019]

You’ve taken these huge networks and made them quality, productive tools for advertising, corporate networking, and conducting business. That’s impressive. What we used to use for expressing our emotions through tortured song lyrics, you’ve made a legitimate business. And it’s brilliant. However. . . A few recent articles have brought to my attention the idea of “surprise” when it comes to the fact that people ages 18-29 use status updates more than any other age group.


Really? That could surprise anyone? I know that Twi uk email address list tter is growing for business right now, but we started updating statuses, or AIM away messages, at around age twelve. It’s been a part of growing up for us. It defined or demolished our social lives IRL (that’s “in real life,” fyi) from middle to high school. Going into adolescence, we’ve always had the need to know where and what our friends are doing at any given time.





Graph via eMarketer , which don’t forget, was only available to us college students for a while. And honestly, though we’re glad to welcome everyone into our Facebook networks now (including businesses, moms, and even you, grandparents), we really appreciated our own private niche online while it lasted. Oh well. Now that we’ve moved into the corporate world, we totally recognize the possibilities here. This shouldn’t come as a surprise, though.