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What's more interesting on that graph is that Facebook is not the sausage fest that AZ is... :lol:
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What's more interesting on that graph is that Facebook is not the sausage fest that AZ is... :lol:
Women are naturally chatty... just not necessarily about skiing.
I assume that's the same age group that balked when internet first became available in homes, as well as when home computers became the norm.
The data you quoted is almost a year old. I'm not saying there are necessarily 5m people in your age bracket using FB, but a lot can change in a year.
Newsflash: Most of us grew up communicating by letters and payphones.
Yep, we're growing, but it's hard to tell how many of these are new versus a statistical transition to a new bracket.
Source Although most of you won't have access.Online baby boomers are a cohort of online consumers who are now between the ages of 44 and 64. Currently, there are 64.8 million baby boomers online, representing 37% of the overall online population in the US.
Looks like a good place to meet women. Here's a piece of info from my companies research for comparison's sake:
Source Although most of you won't have access.
So your age group needs to reach approx 37% of the fb population to be fully represented.
semi-serious question.. i FB but don't twitter.. how does AZ integrate with that? if a thread is tweeted does every new entry end up on subscriber's phones?
I don't see how I've contradicted myself - anecdotal evidence of insufficient sample size is statistically invalid. I indicated that most people I know don't do Facebook, which was a response to an assertion that another person knows more people who are. My point is that neither of us has enough data to draw a conclusion unless our sample size is broad enough.
except for grandpa powhunter. he grew up with the pony express and telegrams....
If a thread is "tweeted", a link is added to that Twitterers (a word?) page and anyone following them can see it. It's not dynamic enough to update each time a new post is added to a thread.
All new threads and news articles are already tweeted to the AZ twitter account here:
http://twitter.com/alpinezone
The current 590 followers will then see it. I don't Twitter personally either. Kinda think it's too simplistic, but I guess people enjoy it.
I know a lot of people that scoffed at Facebook before they started using it (myself included), and now enjoy it.
Just getting to this thread though this is a topic I've been meaning to raise, as I've been fairly active in social networking for a while now and even make some consulting coin analyzing social media. Apologies in advance for the length ...If a thread is "tweeted", a link is added to that Twitterers (a word?) page and anyone following them can see it. It's not dynamic enough to update each time a new post is added to a thread.
All new threads and news articles are already tweeted to the AZ twitter account here:
http://twitter.com/alpinezone
The current 590 followers will then see it. I don't Twitter personally either. Kinda think it's too simplistic, but I guess people enjoy it.
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The automated tweets of new threads do convert the links to bit.ly though ... not that I want to encourage automated tweeting ;-)I haven't figured out a way to auto-shorten the URLs in the Twitter feed through bit.ly or something.
And because it doesn't use a URL-shortening service it chews up 51 out of the available 140 characters, whereas something like bit.ly would get it down under 20...
Valid point; in fact some viruses have been spread via Twitter this way.I don't twitter, or tweet, or whatever it is, no need for me. One thing I hate are those URL shortening services, I never click on them. If I can't see where the link is going to take me then I have no interest in clicking on it.
Exhibit A for inappropriate use of Twitter-to-FB auto-relay.One of my facebook friends is constantly posting his twitter posts to his facebook page, aside from the fact that they're full of all sorts of abbreviations and other crap I have no interest in figuring out, they always have all these shortened links in them.
On Twitter, it will (well, it can break a tweet). That doesn't make Twitter bad, just different. It's not for everyone but I've gotten some good value from it.If I'm going to converse on the internet I'm going to use full and real words, for the most part, and regular old links. A few extra characters isn't going to kill anyone.
On Twitter, it will (well, it can break a tweet). That doesn't make Twitter bad, just different. It's not for everyone but I've gotten some good value from it.