October 23rd, 2008
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(Cross-posted on my fellowship blog - How International Values Shape Communications Technologies)
I had earlier used data from the Wave 3 of the Power of the People Social Media Tracker by Universal McCann to do a comparative analysis of social media usage in BRIC countries.
Now Universal McCann has published some more findings from the same study in another report titled When did we start trusting strangers? How the internet turned us all into influencers. The report is a treasure trove of interesting findings on how digital media is changing how we look at relationships and influence and I’m sure that I’ll return to it often in subsequent posts.
However, in this post, I want to focus on Universal Mccann’s findings on how we stay in touch with our personal contacts –
The evolution of the web as a social platform and primary communication channel has had a dramatic impact on the scale and nature of our friendship networks. Figure 8 shows the global average number of friends and personal acquaintances we maintain via different forms of communication including face to face, digital and letters.
October 23rd, 2008 |
Posted in Culture, Flat or Not, Internet, Mobile, Noteworthy, Social Media
| Tagged with Brazil, BRIC, China, Communication Channel, India, Instant Messenger, Introvert, Personal Blog, phone, Social Circle, Social Network, Text Message, United States, Universal McCann, Wave 3 Report |
August 17th, 2008
Pete Cashmore at Mashable raised an interesting question today when he asked if the leading proponents of social media are, in fact, social media introverts —
Wouldn’t it be a great irony if the leading proponents of the “it’s about people” mantra weren’t so enamored with meeting large groups of people in real life? Or, perhaps…fitting. Perhaps social media affords us the control we lack in real life socializing: the screen as a barrier between us and the world.
I had always thought of myself as a loner until I realized that people have different social styles –
Everyone has a different social style, so, understand yours and start from your comfort zone, before you challenge them.
Some people like meeting new people at parties where they can look beautiful, click pictures of each other on their camera-phones, get drunk and dance late into the night, and become lifelong friends without even saying a full sentence to each other (because the music is too loud to talk).
Other people like to meet new people one on one — over coffee, let’s say — so that they can talk to each other, get to know each other.
August 17th, 2008 |
Posted in Social Media
| Tagged with Conversation, Extrovert, Introvert, Mashable, Pete-Cashmore, Social Media Introverts, Social Style |
