Updated stats on the Social media Revolution from Video:

1. Over 50% of the world’s population is under 30-years-old
   
2. 96% of them have joined a social network
   
3. Facebook tops Google for weekly traffic in the U.S.
   
4. Social Media has overtaken porn as the #1 activity on the Web
   
5. 1 out of 8 couples married in the U.S. last year met via social media
   
6. Years to Reach 50 millions Users: Radio (38 Years), TV (13 Years), Internet (4 Years), iPod (3 Years)…
   
7. iPhone applications hit 1 billion in 9 months.
   
8. We don’t have a choice on whether we DO social media, the question is how well we DO it.”
   
9. If Facebook were a country it would be the world’s 3rd largest ahead of the United States and only behind China and India
   
10. 2009 US Department of Education study revealed that on average, online students out performed those receiving face-to-face instruction
    
11. 80% of companies use social media for recruitment; % of these using LinkedIn 95%
    
12. The fastest growing segment on Facebook is 55-65 year-old females
    
13. Ashton Kutcher and Ellen Degeneres (combined) have more Twitter followers than the populations of Ireland, Norway, or Panama. Note I have adjusted the language here after someone pointed out the way it is phrased in the video was difficult to determine if it was combined.
    
14. 50% of the mobile Internet traffic in the UK is for Facebook…people update anywhere, anytime…imagine what that means for bad customer experiences?
    
15. Generation Y and Z consider e-mail passé – some universities have stopped distributing e-mail accounts
    
16. What happens in Vegas stays on YouTube, Flickr or Twitter
17. The #2 largest search engine in the world is YouTube
    
18. While you watch this 100+ hours of video will be uploaded to YouTube
    
19. Wikipedia has over 15 million articles…studies show it’s more accurate than Encyclopedia Britannica…78% of these articles are non-English
    
20. Because of the speed in which social media enables communication, word of mouth now becomes world of mouth
    
21. If you were paid a $1 for every time an article was posted on Wikipedia you would earn $156.23 per hour
    
22. 25% of search results for the World’s Top 20 largest brands are links to user-generated content
    
23. 34% of bloggers post opinions about products & brands
    
24. Do you like what they are saying about your brand? You better.
    
25. People care more about how their social graph ranks products and services than how Google ranks them
    
26. 78% of consumers trust peer recommendations
    
27. Only 14% trust advertisements
    
28. Only 18% of traditional TV campaigns generate a positive
29. 90% of people that can TiVo ads do
    
30. 24 of the 25 largest newspapers are experiencing record
31. 60 millions status updates happen on Facebook daily
    
32. We no longer search for the news, the news finds us.
    
33. We will non longer search for products and services, they will find us via social media
    
34. Social Media isn’t a fad, it’s a fundamental shift in the way we communicate
    
35. Successful companies in social media act more like Dale Carnegie and less like Mad Men Listening first, selling second
    
36. The ROI of social media is that your business will still exist in 5 years
    
37. Bonus: comScore indicates that Russia has the most engage social media audience with visitors spending 6.6 hours and viewing 1,307 pages per visitor per month – Vkontakte.ru is the #1 social network

Stats courtesy of www.LinkedIn.com

10 passwords you should never use on Facebook—or anywhere

Password change not successful.

You may not use a dictionary word as your password. Please choose a more secure password.

Below are 10 that I was able to use, even though Facebook rated all of them as “weak”:

1. circus
2. orphan
3. better
4. higher
5. medley
6. valued
7. secure
8. social
9. hijack
10. victim
    

To find out how strong or weak a password is, try Microsoft’s password checker.

—Jeff Fox, www.ConsumberReports.org

Yahoo! HotJobs Worst-Paying College Degrees

-by Charles Purdy, Yahoo! HotJobs senior editor

There's no denying the value of a college education: According to recent U.S. Census surveys, the median salary for college grads is more than $20,000 higher than that of people with only a high school diploma. And the unemployment rate for people with bachelor's degrees is almost half the rate for people without.

But some degrees are worth more than others, as PayScale.com shows in its 2010 report on the earning power of bachelor's degrees.

No surprise, engineering degrees continue to be top earners--and (also no big shocker) you have to go pretty far down the list before you see the liberal arts well represented.

But there's more to choosing a major than comparing dollar amounts. We salute and congratulate the graduates whose interests (and hard work) have led them to the following degrees--the lowest-earning degrees on PayScale's list.

10. Drama (starting annual salary: $35,600; mid-career annual salary: $56,600)

9. Fine arts (starting annual salary: $35,800; mid-career annual salary: $56,300)

8. Hospitality and tourism (starting annual salary: $37,000; mid-career annual salary: $54,300)

7. Education (starting annual salary: $36,200; mid-career annual salary: $54,100)

6. Horticulture (starting annual salary: $37,200; mid-career annual salary: $53,400)

5. Spanish (starting annual salary: $35,600; mid-career annual salary: $52,600)

4. Music (starting annual salary: $34,000; mid-career annual salary: $52,000)

3. Theology (starting annual salary: $34,800; mid-career annual salary: $51,500)

2. Elementary education (starting annual salary: $33,000; mid-career annual salary: $42,400)

1. Social work (starting annual salary: $33,400; mid-career annual salary: $41,600)