impressive statistics about social media use and impact

A friend pointed me to a really nice youtube arguing for the importance of social media using a lot of interesting statisitics (from the US).



you can read all the stats (and links to their respective sources) on his blog.

I love these Statistics

I usually argue for qualitative analysis, because i believe that statistical data might be good in describing trends, but it does not determine the individual case (which is what is IMHO most relevant most of the time).

In this TED video Hans Rosling presents some amazing data very nicely animated and passionately commented:




http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hVimVzgtD6w