Who Are The Most Active Social Networkers?

The picture you've just seen above already gives you hint to answer the title of this article. That's right! Women are nonetheless the most active social networkers as of today!

On a latest study reported, females ages 18-34 years old are the most engaged in social networking and which make up the majority of visitors to social networks and blogs. Aged 35-49 are also avid visitors: 4 percent are more likely than average to visit social networks and blogs than they do in any other site and 27 percent of these sites’ audience. The next paragraphs will get you into details about them.

Related: The Rise Of Mobile Social Media Use

These women are likely came from New England as the report suggests, with an average of 102 unique women who visit social networking sites and blogs. Not so far behind are women from South Atlantic and East South Central both has the same figure of average of 101 visitors who are also active in social networking. Women from Pacific and both of East and West North Central though are the third visitors likely to land on the sites mentioned.

As mentioned earlier, these active women who engage a lot in social networking are between ages 18-34 years old which has an average of 108 visitors. They are educated,  highly reputable women as the study indicates that these women has attained a bachelor's degree or even post graduate degree. There is no report on what particular field these women are into but I would like to think that they are involved in either SEO, content management, technical support or BPO or even testers. 

In terms of ethnicity, Asian/Pacific Islander women are the most active social networkers. About 103 in average of social networking and blog sites visitors are Asian while an average of 102 are either American Indian or Alaska Native. White and Hispanic women are also active with an average of 101 and 100 unique visitors respectively.

Indeed, women conquers social networking! To show this, here is a picture showing how women are active and even influential to both men and women online. Britney Spears is the most circled people in Google+ only followed by four other powerful and popular men despite the fact that the current percentage of gender who use Google+ is 69.0% men and 29.8% women.

The Rise Of Mobile Social Media Use

Year 2011 has been dominating for smartphones and tablets. In fact, more than half of all mobile phone sales are occupied by smartphones already. It is the year where consumers sought and realized that the use of these devices can bring yet another effective and convenient way of computing.

Powerful mobile OS (Operating Systems), highly interactive and useful applications, increased phone memory and the ever-powered storage over the cloud which allowed users flexibility to access files wherever, whenever! These are only among of a hundred reasons why smartphones and tablets are overtaking feature phones.

Related: Top Social Networking And Blogging Sites Of 2011

MOBILE SOCIAL MEDIA USE IS ON THE RISE

Whether it is a feature phone or a smartphone, the ability to access social media is a commonly used feature among mobile owners. About 43 percent of users access the web through mobile device such as mobile phones, iPad, e-reader and handheld music player. In the figure below, the 97 percent for computer use only suggests that still, computer is the most convenient way to use and access social media contents.

How do consumers access social media (Source:Nielsen)

SMARTPHONE FEATURES AND HOW USERS HAVE VALUED THEM

With wide capability ranging from the basics of making and receiving calls to checking out different places nearby down to mobile payment transactions and updating social status and news feeds plus the practicality of use over other devices, smartphones continue to be the most preferred gadget. The next figure below lists down the features commonly available in a smartphone device and how these features have valued by users.

While downloading and playing music is the most available feature for smartphones and global positioning system (GPS) is the most valued feature, applications for social networking has been the second available and most valued feature.

How does social networking compare to other features consumers have on
their phones? And what features do they value most?

MOST USED APPS FOR SMARTPHONE USERS

The on-the-rise popularity of smartphones and tablets which allow users install a wide variety of applications also made it possible for mobile social networking apps to be the third most downloaded app and used by smartphone owners. The most popular app for social networking across all operating system is Facebook  while Twitter is the number five most used app on Blackberry and Windows mobile operating systems.

Gaming apps (the most popular of which include Angry birds, Fruit Ninja and Tiny Tower) are still the most downloaded and used applications for smartphones While Weather applications are also highly in demand. Other categories for the most downloaded and used applications by smartphones users include music (Google Music is the most popular) , news, entertainment, banking/finance and dining/restaurant.

Top 10 Categories of Apps Used by Smartphones Owners Who Downloaded Apps

USERS WHO ENGAGED IN MOBILE SOCIAL NETWORKING

As teeny as thirteen (13) and eldest as fifty five and over (55+) years of age have installed apps for mobile social networking. The most highly downloaded app of which is Facebook followed by twitter with LinkedIn, a site preferrable for professionals, as the least most downloaded app. Ages twenty five to thirty four (25 - 34) have the highest percentage of social networking app users.

Percentage of Social Networking App Users by Age

Pinoy Meets Siri

The advent of iPhone 4S in the Philippines has received an overwhelming acceptance and appreciation to many. Me myself have tried the gadget and I've been wowed by the handset especially when I tried to take that shot from it's 8MP camera - digicam can just be thrown away now and talk to Siri to search in the web and send a message.  However not everything is really incredible especially when it comes to Siri. She cannot understand some of the words you say to her and she will lead you to ridiculous actions if not horrible!

Talking about Siri, I tried to search on the web about some of the useful tips or vids on how to get with her, so that one day when I got my own iPhone 4S (whew!), I won't lose my nerve talking to her and she will follow actions as instructed. Eventually this brought me to unexpected while some are totally ridiculous results. So I thought to post it here so that I have my own collection of Pinoy videos with Siri.

If you don't know Siri yet, she is the most  'intelligent' (so far) virtual assistant of iPhone (available on iPhone 4S only) that allows you to do things on your phone such as sending and reading text messages, calling, setting up a schedule, send emails, search on the web, setting up an alarm, unit conversion etc.

Here are some of the videos of Pinoy dealing with Siri.

SIMPLE INQUIRY USING SIRI - In this vid, the pinoy user is asking simple inquiries to Siri and Siri will try to search it on the web and immediately display the answer on the screen

SETTING UP A SCHEDULE, REMINDER AND NOTE USING SIRI - This video is showing how Siri would set you up on a schedule and properly put your appointments in order. She would even tell you if there are conflicting schedules and ask you some confirmations. Siri seems easily got the Pinoy user talking to her in this vid.

SIRI READS TAGALOG MESSAGE - This is quite hilarious as Siri reads tagalog words. What's in the message is actually the 'bahay kubo' lyrics.

Okay, moving away from the serious vids, I went to this really funny and trending video of Filipino version of Siri - Vangie. The crafting of this video is indeed impressive that it was even featured in a national news  program in TV but this one is a total joke.

MEET VANGIE THE PINOY VERSION OF SIRI

VANGIE CHECKING THE LOCAL TRAFFIC CONDITION - A short clip of one of Vangie's feature - checking local traffic.

Going back, I found this video of ashleyslips and I was like, Woah, really? They are giving away an iPhone 4S?

GET A CHANCE TO HAVE SIRI BY WINNING IPHONE 4S - Yes! Globe Telecom is actually promoting their iPhone 4S offering and you have the chance to win iPhone 4S by joining this contest. watch this video of ashleyslips  to know the mechanics and as she nosebleed when she asks Siri to define the word 'life'!

That's all for now, I wish I could add some more videos in this post later.

Admit It, You Hate Them!

A funny checklist but somehow true to the statement that "YOU HATE THEM!" Can you add some more?

☑ Kim Jong Il
☑ Khaddafi
☑ Osama Bin Laden
☑ Saddam Hussein
☐ Internet Explorer

Philippines Holds Guinness Record For 'World's Biggest Secret Santa'

Globe Telecom in partnership with Overseas Workers Welfare Administration (OWWA), brought a new Guinness record to the country as the collaboration for the attempt to break the record for the World's Biggest Secret Santa gathering also known as "Kris Kringle" was successfully achieved today, December 18, 2011, Philippine standard time.

The big event which was participated in by Filipino families and Overseas Filipino Workers (OFWs) across the four countries including Philippines, Taiwan, Singapore, and Hong Kong became a big accomplishment after surpassing the current record with an outstanding 3,500 OFW families who partook in the said event.  

United Kingdom was the current Guinness record holder of  the “kris kringle” with 1,562 participants only which was dethroned now by the Philippines. 

Prior to the event, Ms. Rizza Maniego Eala, group head for International Business of Globe Telecom said “The project was made because many of them have been away from their families for several years so thought of a simple, yet meaningful way to bond, stay connected to loved ones in the Philippines and celebrate Christmas even from thousands of miles away.”

Globe Telecom received the Guinness World Record certificate  after representatives from Guinness Book of World Records finally verified the official count.

Memorable pictures in the said event are shown below:

Sources: Gulfnews.com, Manila Bulletin, Globe Telecom Facebook, Globe Telecom Twitter

Freeze Your Monitor With Google's "Let It Snow" Effect

It's Christmas and Google has always got to share with us in this one of the most celebrated event of the year! We've been flabbergasted by this powerful search engine before by adding cool effects in Google search like the "Do a barrel roll", "Google Sphere", "Google Gravity" and many more and this time, it's time to do the "Let it snow"!

Go to Google.com and key in the words "let it snow" (without the quotes) in the search bar. After the engine displays the result, snowflakes will start to fall on your screen. Your monitor then will start to frost until the display is almost completely covered. You may noticed that the search button before becomes the defrost button which you can click to go back to the normal view. Don't click this yet as there is one last step to enjoy this effect. While your monitor is still frozen, click and drag your mouse on the screen. See what happen. The images below are screenshots of my own trial of this awesome effect!

"Let It Snow" by Google

Click and drag mouse while the whole screen is frozen

Globe, Smart Set To Release iPhone 4S Tomorrow

Two of the biggest telecommunication networks in the Philippines, Globe Telecom and Smart Communications are set to release the much anticipated smartphone, iPhone 4S, tomorrow, December 16, 2011 in their respective stores nationwide.

iPhone 4S

iPhone 4S is the latest smartphone version released by Apple after iPhone 4 with not so much difference in terms of functionality to the latter model. It's main features include the dual-core A5 chip which brings optimum power, an 8MP camera with all-new optics that can shoot an 1080p HD video, the iCloud that lets you store your music, photos, apps, mail, contacts, calendars, documents, into the 'cloud' and the intelligent assistant named Siri who can make phone calls, sends messages, schedules meetings, sets reminders, and more by simply talking or making direction in a conversational way.

Both networks will be offering the gadget in prepaid and postpaid plan. Interested customers who want to get the said phone can have reservation and know more about the pricing by redirecting to:

Globe: http://iphone4s.globe.com.ph/
Smart: http://www1.smart.com.ph/postpaid/iphone4s

Can Social Media Land You A Job?

Apparently, the growing community of people who goes online is dramatically increasing each year and there is no doubt that more and more people are using social media not just for communication but also for looking opportunities and careers. On the other hand, most popular companies especially those involved in business process outsourcing are utilizing social networking sites to get their target employees. So can the social media get you a job? The answer is YES!

And Facebook as the largest community on the web with over 800 million active user, leads in those social media that many users used to seek and successfully get their career although other social media platforms like Linkedin and Twitter are not left far behind.

See the infographic below as published in jobvite.com to learn more the statistical data on how social media strategy worked for getting and landing a job. 

Top Apps and Games 2011 for iPhone | iPad | iPod Touch

Apple's annual year-end retrospective for apps and games revealed that Instagram made it to the top and be heralded as defenitive 'top iPhone application of 2011' while Tiny Tower is this year's 'Top iPhone Game of 2011'. For iPad, Snapseed held the 'top iPad application for 2011' while Angry Birds HD earned both this year's 'top paid selling and top grossing' tablet app.

Instagram is a free photo-sharing application that allow users apply different effects and filters to captured photos and share it on different social networking sites including Twitter, Facebook, Tumbler, Flickr, Foursquare and Posterous. Its major update included more features like instant tilt shift, four new filters, high resolution photos, optional borders, one click rotation, an updated icon and use of hashtags for user and photo discoverability, The app has already reached an outstanding 14 million+ users who posted about 400 million photos online.

This year's apple game of the year Tiny Tower is a freemium, highly engaging and addictive game. It was released to iTunes on June 22, 2011 and the game was well-received by users and was even featured as game of the week. The goal of game is to upgrade a small building into a skyscraper, brimming with both residential and commercial establishments. The game requires a sense of strategic thinking, cost and time efficiency and a decent amount of commitment which made this game a winsome.

Snapseed has some similarities to Instagram that let's you add flavors to your photographs but more features to offer. Snapseed enhances your photos with one tap, tweak photos to perfection with Tune Image or selectively adjust only a part of your photo with revolutionary Control Points. User can also add incredible effects with innovative filters like Drama, Vintage, and Grunge and share photos with friends and family with social network support, or print photos directly in Snapseed.

Other categories in the 'iTunes Rewind 2011' include 'Artist of the year' which was took by Adele with her song 'Rolling in the deep' also as the top-selling song and her '21' as the best selling album.

The top-selling movie of 2011 was the Oscar winner 'The Social Network.' Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - Part 2 was also awarded 'Best Blockbuster', while 'Bridesmaids' was named best comedy. Woody Allen's 'Midnight in Paris' was best indie, and 'Beginners' took best romance. 

"Steve Jobs", an authorized biography by Walter Isaacson was this year's best-selling nonfiction title of 2011 while other books that also made it in the market include 'The Tiger's Wife' by Tea Obreht (best novel), 'The Help' by Kathryn Stockett (best-selling fiction novel) and 'Boomerang' by Michael Lewis (best nonfiction).