Tuesday, March 23, 2010

Social Media Addicts

With Facebook being the largest social network, more people are feeling the urge to constantly update their status and make more people aware of their daily activities. Forty eight percent of users update their status as the last thing they do at night or the first thing they do in the morning. Some users even check their Facebook pages if they happen to wake up in the middle of the night. Some users wouldn't even mind checking their pages during a date or even an intimate moment. Experts say that this is all motivated by the newness of the social networking craze.

Tuesday, March 9, 2010

Internet is the New Newspaper

Americans are reading just not the newspaper. The Interent soars to the top 3 spot for being the third most popular vehicle for getting daily news updates. Local and national news channel are first and second while newspaper came in fifth behind radio. The interent is more accessible and waste much less paper than the traditional newspaper. This goes to show that we are truly in the "computer age."