Mobile Social Media Is The Way We Stay Social
Social media is a booming business. In fact, it’s very much becoming a way of life. Recent studies have revealed a rising trend that shows everyday people on-the-go have a new way of staying social.
The leader in measuring the digital world released some interesting study results on mobile social media usage.
72.2 million Americans access their social networking sites or blogs via their mobile devices in August 2011. That equates to a 37% increase in the past year. The study has also proven how mobile users interact with their preferred choice of social media; this could be by reading a post from an organization or about an event.
Facebook mobile has reached 60 million users, 70% of those users updated their status while on their mobile device.
Nearly one third of all mobile users access their preferred choice of social media from their mobile device.
It can be said that this is very much becoming the preferred method of communication and/or being social. If you call your friend or send them a text, you might not get an answer. When that is the case, just send a Facebook message or tweet them and you’ll more than likely get a response within seconds.
While this is a great way to keep in touch with old high school friends or people you wouldn’t talk to everyday, what about those you see and talk to everyday? Will this be the primary way to communicate?
It kind of looks eerie when one gazes upon the site once stepping onto a BART or a subway train. Everyone is wearing their ear buds and listening to their iPods, while switching back and forth between their iPhones and their iPads. They are receiving Facebook messages and texts on their iPhones, reading the New York Times or the San Francisco Chronicle on their iPads, and listening to Pitbull and Neyo on their iPods.
The question is rhetorical but can always be asked; is the technology that we use to be social really making us a more introverted society?
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