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EthicsStat …Now You Know Addressing Social Networking Ethics Resource Center April 22, 2009. Recent Facebook Statistics: How Much of This Occurs at Work?. Global internet usage surpassed 1 billion unique visitors in December 2008.
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EthicsStat …Now You Know Addressing Social Networking Ethics Resource Center April 22, 2009
Recent Facebook Statistics: How Much of This Occurs at Work? Global internet usage surpassed 1 billion unique visitors in December 2008 Source: http://www.comscore.com/press/release.asp?press=2698 • General Growth • More than 200 million active users • More than 100 million users log on to Facebook at least once each day • More than two-thirds of Facebook users are outside of college • The fastest growing demographic is those 35 years old and older • User Engagement • More than 3.5 billion minutes are spent on Facebook each day (worldwide) • More than 20 million users update their statuses at least once each day • Mobile Users • There are more than 30 million active users currently accessing Facebook through their mobile devices Source: http://www.facebook.com/press/info.php?statistics
What Are You Doing to Promote Productive Internet Usage in Your Organization? Social networking through Facebook or Twitter can be beneficial to organizations if managed correctly, but a true productivity killer if abused by employees. To What Extent Have You Observed the Abuse of Internet by Other Employees At Work? 20% 16% 11% Percent Agreement 10% 0% NBES 2007 ERC 2008/09 Client Database Survey Population