Social Media Revolution – Unbelievable Facts and Figures

There's no way that married couples in, say, China, or (an example I know better) Brazil, met via social media. Only about 1 in 4 people use Internet worldwide ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_Internet_usage ) and of those, about 50% use social media ( http://randomthougts101.blogspot.com/2009/06/social-media-ne... ), so, even if all of the social media users matched up, I doubt it would come up to 1 in 8 !!! (yes, I know I made some dubious assumptions along the way, but I hope you get the idea)

I also expect less than 10% of companies worldwide to use social media for recruitment currently, not to mention less than 1% of governments! (made up figures, but along the lines of what I'd expect)

BTW, from "real" figures, it seems about 12% of the population worldwide works in the public sector:

http://unpan1.un.org/intradoc/groups/public/documents/un/un-...

I can also blame them for adding a sensationalist headline which promises "Unbelievable Facts And Figures" and then follows it up with a combination of a few completely boring facts (omg half the world's population is under thirty as you might have suspected if you thought about it for a moment!) and some statements which are unbelievable only in the rather trivial sense that they're almost certainly complete bullshit (one out of eight married couples met via social media? I imagine at least seven out of eight couples married before there was such a thing as "social media")

So in conclusion, I do blame them for putting together a link-whoring, sensationalized, extremely dull blog post based on someone else's work for the purposes of attempting to drive traffic to their site under false pretences.