How To Start A Social Networking Site

Today social networking does not look anything like it did 10 years ago. With the explosion on the Internet and the growth of Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and many other sites, the term social networking means something altogether different. Facebook recently reach the 350 million subscribers and is the biggest social networking site. I know that seams hard to believe but yes there are more people on Facebook then there are in the US. It was also reported that Youtube, the leader in online videos, served over 100 million videos a day in the month of January 2009 just from its US viewers. I know that it hard to believe but it is correct. 100 million videos per day. Twitter, a new commer on the block, has also grow but there growth is nowhere near that of YouTube.

To me the real news worthy item is the demographic of that growth. Facebook had a 276% growth in the age group 35-54 in 2009. That is not to say that there are more people 35+ on Facebook than under 35 because that is just not the case. 18 million of the 20 million US citizens on Facebook fall into that 35 and under crowed. What it does mean is the there will be continued growth in the 35+ age group because there is so much room to grow.

With Twitter things are indead different in that the majority of users are the 35+ age group where they make up 66% of the Twitter users. This means that as many of these users have come on to the Internet for the first time have also started using Twitter. Youtube is more balanced. About 52% of the users on Youtube are 35 and under and 48% are 35+. Youtube also has a higher demographic of males as compared to Facebook has a higher demographic of females.

As a network marketer, this means that there are going to be more and more people that are coming on line in the 35+ age group.Since the 35+ age group is also the group that has more financial resources then the under 35 group, there is going to be a further explosion of marketers that will be focused on the 35+ age group that is trying to get their hands on those financial resources. At the same time this age group is least educated on how to use a computer let alone social networking.

As you can see, with this kind of growth that there is much more to come in the future. I think this is a perfect storm for someone who can take the right approach. A wise internet network marketer would focus on this demographic and also focus on the need for training and education of how to use social networking sites as well as other commonly used web sites. The growth could be even more exposive if the correct approach is used and is easy to use and focuses on education and training.

Bottom line is the future looks very good for this industry.

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