{"id":3856,"date":"2009-05-19T00:13:30","date_gmt":"2009-05-19T00:13:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/publicityhound.com\/blog\/?p=3856"},"modified":"2025-06-05T16:37:28","modified_gmt":"2025-06-05T16:37:28","slug":"hate-social-media-this-may-change-your-mind-and-the-bosss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/marketing\/social-media\/hate-social-media-this-may-change-your-mind-and-the-bosss\/","title":{"rendered":"Hate social media? This may change your mind&#8212;and the boss&#8217;s"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-3873\" style=\"margin: 5px 10px;float: left\" title=\"crowd\" src=\"https:\/\/www.publicityhound.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/crowd-300x189.jpg\" alt=\"crowd\" width=\"300\" height=\"189\" \/>Do you hate Twitter and refuse to use it because &#8220;who cares what I had for lunch?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Do you abhor Facebook and predict it will be passe by next year, so why go through all the trouble of creating a profile?<\/p>\n<p>Does your boss prohibit people from using Facebook at work? And nix your budget requests for social media?<\/p>\n<p>If so, read this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.copyblogger.com\/why-social-media-marketing\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">quick explanation<\/a> by Brian Clark of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.Copyblogger.com\">Copyblogger <\/a>about why not participating in social media is a huge mistake and could be costing you dearly:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;text-align: center\">\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;text-align: center\"><span style=\"font-family: arial black,avant garde\"><span style=\"font-size: large\">&#8220;Smart marketers participate in social media<br \/>\nbecause that\u2019s where the people are.<\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-size: large\">&#8220;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;text-align: center\"><span style=\"font-size: large\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p>How many people?<\/p>\n<p>Here are some stats that should convince you and your boss, courtesy of Adam Singer&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/thefuturebuzz.com\/2009\/01\/12\/social-media-web-20-internet-numbers-stats\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Social Media, Web 2.0 and Internet Stats:<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>346 million &#8212; The number of people globally who read blogs<\/li>\n<li>77% &#8212; The percentage of active Internet users who read blogs.<\/li>\n<li>200 million &#8212; The number of active Facebook users.<\/li>\n<li>100 million &#8212; The number of users who log on to Facebook at least once each day<\/li>\n<li>100 million &#8212; The number of YouTube videos viewed per day.\u00a0 (This stat is from 2006!).<\/li>\n<li>77% &#8212; The percentage of active Internet users who read blogs.<\/li>\n<li>1,111,991,000 &#8212; The number of tweets to date (see Twitter&#8217;s up-to-the-minute count)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Many of those people have problems, ailments and dilemmas&#8212;and are looking for free advice. Others are <strong>willing to pay<\/strong> somebody to make things better.<\/p>\n<p>I like Brian Clark&#8217;s solution for the boss: Stop debating the premise that social networking does or doesn&#8217;t work &#8220;and start fixing the problem.&#8221;\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\">\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Do you hate Twitter and refuse to use it because &#8220;who cares what I had for lunch?&#8221; Do you abhor Facebook and predict it will be passe by next year, so why go through all the trouble of creating a profile? Does your boss prohibit people from using Facebook at work? And nix your budget\u2026&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/marketing\/social-media\/hate-social-media-this-may-change-your-mind-and-the-bosss\/\" class=\"rmlink\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","iawp_total_views":3,"wds_primary_category":638,"footnotes":""},"categories":[638],"tags":[607],"class_list":{"0":"post-3856","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-social-media","7":"tag-promotions","8":"entry"},"featured_image_src":null,"featured_image_src_square":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"Joan Stewart","author_link":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/author\/jstewart\/"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3856","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3856"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3856\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42095,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3856\/revisions\/42095"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3856"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3856"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3856"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}