There seems to be this incredible misconception that Social Media a la Facebook is for the younger generation. I spoke with a number of media Bureaus last week and surmised that this notion was prevalent in the minds of creative advertising people. Somehow it is like the misconception that mostly young people SMS each other and we adults don’t. This is not the case. Social Media and SMS may have commenced life with the tweens and teens, but evidence now suggests that these social activities are becoming more mainstream. This is the first example of young people bringing their behaviour with them into adulthood, and not as psychologists would have us believe, shedding ‘childhood’ habits. The ‘net generation’ is now mainstream and social media is proof of this!
November 11, 2008 at 5:00 pm |
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November 12, 2008 at 7:19 am |
Hi Edward – well as a social marketing professional myself, I would say they are wrong. it’s a fine balance though – Social media is incredibly hard for companies to grasp because it consists of groups of people and interaction – and basically looks more like a company turned up-side-down than an actual company. It’s no more business as usual =) and making the business of business more than business.
But they will come around eventually. A scary thing is to what extend that danish companies has already grasped social media – which isn’t much at all… =)