A recent research involving U.S college students from Anderson Analytics revealed that “Facebook is cool and other social sites are lame.”
A significant percentage of college students (both male and female) have ruled other social sites like MySpace, Windows Live, Twitter, LinkedIn, Hi5 and Friendster lame.
Seems like MySpace has made it as the “lamest social site” with 31% of the respondents’ votes.
Facebook, on the other hand is getting all the love from college students with 82% of males and 90% of females voting it as ‘cool.’
The only social site that matters?
Each social site has its own beauty, allowing us to consume information and connect with the world differently. For example, LinkedIn is a great place for professional networking, Twitter provides us with real-time bite size information and Facebook seems to have a little of what every site has, and more.
Facebook is doing so well, it might be catching up with Yahoo very soon. Being Jack of all trades might be what made Facebook cool.
Nonetheless, it leaves room for other social sites to thrive with a different social networking experience. LinkedIn has generated more than $100 million in revenue and we hope Twitter can do the same soon.
Via: marketingcharts
