2010 in words & pix
Wow I love 2010
“… we are in the early stages of yet another far-reaching revolution. This revolution is being driven by people and enabled by social media.”
“If Facebook were a country it would be the third largest country in the world behind only China and India.”
“Why is there even a need for social media? in less than three years it became the most popular activity on the Web, supplanting even pornography for the first time in Internet history. Even search engines weren’t powerful enough to do that.”
“As human beings, we have the dichotomous psychological need to be an individual, yet feel connected to and accepted by a much larger social set.”
“Being social animals by nature, we were highly receptive when social media came along.”
“… by seeing a few updates from various social media or from an aggrogator, your friends probably have a good idea about where you were, how the weather was where you were, if you had any travel complications, whether you got a new puppy…”
“We No Longer Search for the News - It Finds Us”
“You don’t need to ask them how the weather was on their trip or what their new puppy looks like…”
“For Those Who Think This Will Never Work… Surprise, It Already Does”
“This allows for the establishment of a quicker and more profound connection between individuals.”
“As people continue to microblog, and update their status via social media, it often becomes a competition of who’s doing the coolest thing. What once took place only around the watercooler is now happening in real time.”
“Out: Reality TV.
In: Reality social media.”
“What happens in Vegas stays on YouTube.”
“Social media is helping to drive the transformation of mobile devices to being the dominant Internet access point instead of computers.”
“Of Apple’s projected sales in 2010, only 4 percent were desktop computers and 6 percent were laptops. The remaining 90 percent were mobile devices… “
All quotes from Socialnomics (2010), Erik Qualman.
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