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Blogs and Cell Phones

Social Media. One item of note today is the great preponderance of cell phones, blogs, twitters, and Facebook.  There are a dozen or more others, as you know.  The question I pose here is why?

The Worldwide Data.  All numbers given are estimates, as there is no clear methodology for such data collection ('cept maybe cell phones) as there is for medical conditions, educational information, voters, religions, and the like. 
  • Cell phones: There are  an estimated 5,980,000,000 mobile accounts worldwide, greater than the world population. Mobile accounts out number land lines 5:1. India and China account for at least 30% of this business. 
  • Blogs: There are more than 160,000,000 blogs and 75% of that number are blog readers.  Some estimates are vastly higher.
  • Twitter: There are at least 500,000,000 accounts, with more than 170,000,000 tweeting daily. The average visit time is more than 11 minutes.  People tweet, organizations tweet, religions tweet, even governments tweet.
  • Facebook: There are 850,000,000 accounts, with more than 240,000,000 checking in daily. 
Forget the commercialization.  Forget the technology. Look deeper.  Something is happening!

The Conclusions.  This is an explosion of a fully new type in the history of mankind.  Innate in us there seems to be a need for a deep and unfulfilled sense to communicate with others.  This is beyond any reason, except perhaps we are looking past the only five we have of hearing, sight, touch, smell and taste for a new sense, a sense of frequent and constant communication. With Twitter, the communiques are quick and short with little long term value.  With the cell phone, it seems that many of us (like all of us) have a need to talk with others. With Facebook, we see the need to broadcast personal information to followers, things that would hardly be brought up in conversation or possibly things that might only be brought up in personal conversation. Do you know?  With Blogs, like the others, there is in many a need to send a message to friend, to family, and more generally to the world population at large.  Some blogs are deep philosophical discourses, many on politics, many more on religion; others are newsy day-to-day happenings.  The latter is sort of a distributed personal or phone conversation to a great many, all at the same time.

The explosive preponderance of these social media express an internal social desire of man never before witnessed on earth.  There is some thing within us we haven't seen before that  I do not understand. 

Yet I blog about it.  :)

References:
Mobile phoneshttp://mobithinking.com/mobile-marketing-tools/latest-mobile-stats/a#subscribers
Twitter, Facebook, etchttp://thesocialskinny.com/100-social-media-mobile-and-internet-statistics-for-2012/
Blogs: http://blogandretire.com/blog/tag/how-many-blogs-are-there

See: used-ideas.blogspot.com
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