newsflash – my dinner party survey shows social technologies NOT mainstream in UK yet
16 September, 2009 at 6:33 pm Leave a comment
Just in case you were under the impression that everyone in the UK with a degree and an internet connection must surely ‘get’ social media, I had a very enlightening conversation with a bunch of (normal, female, early thirties) accountants at a dinner party last Saturday night.
They asked me to explain what ‘blogging’ was, what did a ‘blog’ look like and what was twitter? Was twitter the same as a blog?
I did my best, but it was a real wakeup call. On the basis of this (admittedly small) sample, social technologies have NOT gone mainstream properly yet.
On Forrester’s Social Techographics Ladder these ladies would be classed as ‘joiners’ as they use facebook – but they’re really ‘inactives’ – not only do they don’t know about blogging, twittering and uploading, they don’t care much either.
Entry filed under: social media, social media trends. Tags: Forresters, social media adoption, Social Technographics ladder.
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