20Nov/120
Breaking down social media by age
The Future Journalism Project posted a fantastic graphic this morning, which breaks down the usage of 19 popular social networking tools (like Facebook, Twitter, Friendster and Stumbleupon) and shows the demographics for each site through color-coded bars.
Five things I noticed:
-- Most popular with the 17 and under crowd? Bebo.
-- Most popular with the 45 and up demographic? Classmates.com.
-- Facebook has a broad appeal among all demographics.
-- Sites with the broadest appeal to general adults (25-44) include Reddit, Friendfeed and Slashdot.
-- Myspace still exists(?).
From a journalism perspective, it's interesting to see who's using what in terms of targeting a news audience.
About the author:
Tom D'Errico has been a professional journalist for more than 13 years, most recently as the executive editor of the Brattleboro Reformer in Brattleboro, Vt. Contacts:
Want to share? Go ahead:
Recent Posts
- Budget for June 20, 2013 edition
- Leaving a legacy [an editorial]
- Budget for June 19, 2013 edition
- Budget for June 18, 2013 edition
- Budget for June17, 2013 edition
Archives
- June 2013
- May 2013
- April 2013
- March 2013
- February 2013
- January 2013
- December 2012
- November 2012
- October 2012
- September 2012
- August 2012
- July 2012
- June 2012
- May 2012
- April 2012
- March 2012
- February 2012
- January 2012