Life and pondering the merits of a NO REFUND CULTURE
Modern living: Times they are achangin’
I had a discussion today with about 10 other healthcare communications folk. I asked them about their social media use – pretty much all of them had a:
- LinkedIn profile and some were actively engaging in group discussion
- Facebook profile (no one admitted to playing one of those annoying farming games!)
- Twitter account and were actively tweeting and retweeting
- Google reader and actively followed blogs
Nearly all of them had an element of social media strategy in their communication programmes. Most had an avatar and a couple had a personal blog.
The interesting thing is that if I had asked this question two or more years ago virtually none of the above would be the case. The popularity of social media and therefore its influence is growing massively. Check out this amazing video from Socialnomics - have your sound on for a bit of uplifting Fatboy Slim…
Crazy stats or what!
So a quick question for you to answer by leaving a comment…
How many hours so you think that you spend engaging in social media in a typical week?
November 18, 2009 - 9:50 pm
I average about 30 hours a week on social media – mainly blogging and reading blogs.
November 19, 2009 - 1:12 pm
5.25 hours, I reckon
November 19, 2009 - 8:50 pm
Hmmm, a conservative estimate of 25 hours
November 19, 2009 - 10:37 pm
Now NW1er – is that just 5.25 hours on twitter?
November 21, 2009 - 12:50 am
I don’t know how to tell. Facebook and LinkedIn and blogs I could probably measure, but if you include Twitter and texting… that’s just part of the regular day. How do you split it apart?
My friend Amy recently did a 30-day fast from Facebook and Twitter. I think it’d be a really interesting experiment! (Not sure I want to do it, though.)
November 21, 2009 - 9:37 am
Sarah: I tried an off-line holiday in the UK – and other than having a holiday from writing my blog I couldn’t stop everything else. I think that the iPhone might make this worse! Social media use does integrate into the day (but try and work it out). I was really shocked when I worked out more than 4 hours a day.