Okay, so I realise that my thoughts have been changing a little since leaving a rather well-respected furniture company and heading over to another well-respected furniture company but with a very different business model, but I have always been very keen on people experiencing design through the web and the industry that I inhabit has not yet caught on to the power of the world wide web for this.
Mashable (I am a broken record for how much I love Mashable) posted an article on Social Media in UK, which apart from being very nicely presented, poses an interesting set of numbers which should show that design should really catch up and get online…
“The social media and networking phenomenon is growing extremely fast in the UK. Eighty-five percent of the population is online; they spend more than six hours on social media sites every month, nearly 60% of them read blogs and 64% have their own profile on a social network.
The numbers come from Simply Zesty, an Ireland-based online PR and social media firm that has put together a nifty video with many interesting social media-related figures.
The facts and numbers in the video are based on UK’s online population, but many of them ring true for most parts of the online world. Check it out below.”
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