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  BBC NEWS | Technology | Firms 'miss' social site success 

  http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7501073.stm

  Businesses are missing out on the huge potential that social networks present, a leading information technology company has warned. Researchers for Gartner found that huge opportunities for improving the ... management of large firms exist. "Businesses which harness how employees use these sites stand to increase savings, productivity and profits," said Gartner researcher Jeffrey Mann. He told the BBC the challenge was how to apply this to the corporate world. The Gartner survey discovered that social networking sites, instant messaging email, chat and file sharing are attracting significant levels of interest online. Their work was undertaken across 18 countries and territories between October and December of last year. It found that 38% of more than 4,000 PC and mobile phone users connect to sites like MySpace and Facebook via PCs. Single people and teenagers and more men than women came top in terms of usage. The survey revealed that in large part they went online for entertainment purp   [More...] [Less...]

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  Study: Women Outnumber Men on Most Social Networks - ReadWriteWeb 

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  Online reputation company Rapleaf has released a new study of 49.3 million people, revealing gender and age data about social network users. On most of the main social networks - including MySpace, Facebook, ... Bebo, Hi5 - women outnumber men by a considerable amount. On Facebook, the 18-24 age group is largest, with 1,685,029 women in that age group compared to 977,753 men. In MySpace, the same age group dominates, with 7,091,214 women and 5,226,788 men. The only social networks studied that didn't have more women than men in the 18-24 year old group were venerable old LinkedIn (where incidentally the 25-34 age group was tops) and a site called Perfspot. Other highlights: Women ages 14-24 dominate activity on social networks and have more friends than men of the same ages. Men ages 35+ are more active and have more friends than women of the same ages. The average social network user has 2-25 friends. There are a disproportionately high number of 69 year olds across various social network   [More...] [Less...]

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  Should Social Networks Be Regulated? - ReadWriteWeb 

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  UK Says Yes, EU is Considering, is US Next? A recent study in the UK showed that most Britons have a strong desire for the regulation of social network sites like MySpace and Facebook. In fact, 9 out of ... 10 people said there should be tighter regulation and, according to today's The Guardian , 89% said there should be a set of widely accepted rules to help prevent personal information from being abused. The survey was performed by the Press Complaints Commission (PCC), a British regulatory body for printed newspapers and magazines that consists of representatives from all the major publishers. Since the PCC has been expanding their role, now monitoring internet and video content produced by newspapers, one wonders if they now want to dip their fingers into social network regulation as well. Sir Christopher Meyer, the PCC chairman, warned of the dangers of posting content online to these sites, saying , "there is a need for public awareness about what can happen to information once it is   [More...] [Less...]

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