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This is not as true for Pinterest, which has a standalone use as a nice visual bookmarking tool - my wife uses Pinterest heavily (mostly for cooking and fashion) and isn't engaged in the social aspects at all.
BAM! :-)
(Not that anyone cares, but:) I'm a 23 year-old without social media or smartphone. I consider myself a science experiment. The world is looking more alien to me every single day. For example: last night I was watching the Vergecast [1]. The last episode is literally 90 minutes of four adult men bitching about social media smartphone apps! It's insane. [1] http://www.theverge.com/2013/12/12/5204758/the-vergecast-105.…
If you're watching the Vergecast and posting about it on HN then you're not that much of an outsider as you think you are. No one of my friends or family your age are on Twitter or Pinterest and maybe half are on Facebook. It's easy to think the whole world is into social media when you're reading about it every day, but the majority of people have no idea what any of this means or are even remotely interested in it.
Pinterest is actually a fantastic resource for finding visual inspiration e.g. illustrations, graphic design, typography, product design, app design etc. A lot of people think it's filled with mostly cupcakes and kitten pics (I used to think that too), but it's actually one of the best places to visit online if you're doing visual research. If you're interested in the above design topics, here are some example boards…
(Not that anyone cares, but:) I'm a 23 year-old without social media or smartphone. I consider myself a science experiment. The world is looking more alien to me every single day. For example: last night I was watching the Vergecast [1]. The last episode is literally 90 minutes of four adult men bitching about social media smartphone apps! It's insane. [1] http://www.theverge.com/2013/12/12/5204758/the-vergecast-105.…
(Not that anyone cares, but:) I'm a 23 year-old without social media or smartphone. I consider myself a science experiment. The world is looking more alien to me every single day. For example: last night I was watching the Vergecast [1]. The last episode is literally 90 minutes of four adult men bitching about social media smartphone apps! It's insane. [1] http://www.theverge.com/2013/12/12/5204758/the-vergecast-105.…
(Not that anyone cares, but:) I'm a 23 year-old without social media or smartphone. I consider myself a science experiment. The world is looking more alien to me every single day. For example: last night I was watching the Vergecast [1]. The last episode is literally 90 minutes of four adult men bitching about social media smartphone apps! It's insane. [1] http://www.theverge.com/2013/12/12/5204758/the-vergecast-105.…
Don't people bug you about having no way to contact you without a phone? I'm in no social networks currently either, but had to keep my phone..
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If you're watching the Vergecast and posting about it on HN then you're not that much of an outsider as you think you are. No one of my friends or family your age are on Twitter or Pinterest and maybe half are on Facebook. It's easy to think the whole world is into social media when you're reading about it every day, but the majority of people have no idea what any of this means or are even remotely interested in it.
That would be good news. (Although I'm pretty sure almost every 23 year-old here has Facebook.)
This sounded... difficult to believe, so I thought I'd read the actual report on the Pew website.[0] They seem to use "social media website" interchangeably with the actual apps in question, and their methodology writeup doesn't mention the actual questions they asked in their telephone surveys. I wouldn't be surprised at all if more people used the Pinterest website more than the Twitter website, as the latter seems…
I'd suspect a much larger proportion of Twitter users are things like RSS feed bots, though.
"It is an advertising-based business. Twitter also sells data. It will generate about $583 million this year. Twitter is expected to generate a little less than $1 billion in 2014, according to eMarketer.
Most of Twitter's revenue comes from three types of ads, although it plans to have a more robust advertising offering next year."
Aha!