{"id":385,"date":"2007-12-17T14:57:00","date_gmt":"2007-12-17T21:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/paulgillin.com\/2007\/12\/report-half-of-online-adults-85-of-online-kids-to-use-social-nets-by-2011.html"},"modified":"2007-12-17T14:57:00","modified_gmt":"2007-12-17T21:57:00","slug":"report-half-of-online-adults-85-of-online-kids-to-use-social-nets-by-2011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gillin.com\/blog\/2007\/12\/report-half-of-online-adults-85-of-online-kids-to-use-social-nets-by-2011\/","title":{"rendered":"Report: Half of online adults, 85% of online kids to use social nets by 2011"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.emarketer.com\/Report.aspx?code=emarketer_2000478\">eMarketer says that 37% of online adults use social networks<\/a> at least once a month and that the figure will grow to nearly 50% by 2011. Among teens, usage is already well over half and will near 85% by 2011. Social nets clearly offer value that conventional news and information sites don&#8217;t.<\/p>\n<p><img src=\"https:\/\/www.emarketer.com\/images\/chart_gifs\/090001-091000\/090149.gif\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img src=\"https:\/\/www.emarketer.com\/images\/chart_gifs\/090001-091000\/090148.gif\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Allan Cattier, Director of the Academic Technology Group at Emory University gave a mind-blowing statistic in his presentation to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.communitelligence.com\/blps\/blg.cfm?bid=73\">Communintelligence Executing Social Media conference<\/a> in Atlanta last month. He said Emory had surveyed its freshman class and found that more than 80% of the students log on to Facebook <i>18 or more times a day<\/i>. Imagine how our institutions will be shaped by this trend in coming years. He also showed a compelling video called &#8220;A Vision of Students Today&#8221; created by Michael Wesch in collaboration with 200 students at Kansas State University. See below.<br \/><object width=\"425\" height=\"355\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/dGCJ46vyR9o&#038;rel=1\"><\/param><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\"><\/param><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>eMarketer says that 37% of online adults use social networks at least once a month and that the figure will grow to nearly 50% by 2011. Among teens, usage is already well over half and will near 85% by 2011. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gillin.com\/blog\/2007\/12\/report-half-of-online-adults-85-of-online-kids-to-use-social-nets-by-2011\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":""},"categories":[12,28,32],"tags":[110],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pTy95-6d","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gillin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/385"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gillin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gillin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gillin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gillin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=385"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gillin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/385\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gillin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=385"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gillin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=385"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gillin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}