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It’s really not a surprise when you’re told that people spend a lot of time on social media. We all know that Facebook has over a billion users, and that all these statistics that get thrown around of how many photos users share on social networking sites are just a fancy way of saying, “people are using social media.” However, it turns out that Americans are collectively spending over two billion hours on social media, every month.

In its annual Social Media Report, Nielsen says that Americans spent a collective 121 billion minutes on social media websites in July alone, which is up from 88 billion the year before. 121 billion minutes equates to just over 230,000 years, which means if we split that time equally amongst every American, that would be about 13 minutes per person per day.

Of course, not everyone in America uses social media — Facebook alone has around 150 million active users in the US according to the report, and there are a total of around 212 million Americans using social media as we speak, compared to the current total US population of 312 million. It’s also very possible that a lot of social media accounts are probably duplicates or multiple accounts for one person. So, more realistically, people are probably spending a lot more than just 13 minutes surfing Facebook and Twitter every day. Specifically, if we took those 121 billion minutes and split them equally amongst the 212 million social media users in the US, that would be approximately 19 minutes per person per day, on average.

These are just rough estimates obviously, and not every single social media user only spends 19 minutes per day browsing the sites, but the total 121 billion minutes makes sense no doubt. Furthermore, Nielsen reported that, on average, users spend roughly 20% of their time online on a computer browsing social media, while on mobile devices, users spend around 30% of their time surfing the likes of Facebook, Twitter, and Google+ on their tiny screens.

Americans spend over 2 billion hours on social media per month is written by Craig Lloyd & originally posted on SlashGear.
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When TwitWit, who goes by the handle @MWadeNC
tweeted Newark Mayor Cory Booker that "nutrition is not the
responsibility of the government," a gauntlet was laid that is now being
played out in Twitterville as well as the real world. Booker (@CoryBooker),
a prolific member of the Twitterati has amassed celebrity status with a
Twitter following of over 1.2 million, while TwitWit whose profile
describes herself as a "Daughter of the American Revolution" has only
1008 (as of this posting).

Spilled Pepsi (or worse) on your keyboard again? No need for a China Crisis if you’re rocking the Logicool model k310 washable keyboard. This good-looking peripheral can take a wiping and keep on typing while other keyboards snap, crackle and pop their way into meltdown mode.

If you’ve been a long-time Facebook user, then you know how controversial some of the privacy updates have been on the social networking site. The company launched its current site governance model in 2009, which gave users the right to vote on privacy policy issues. However, Facebook is now proposing to get rid of that system, saying that Facebook has outgrown the old model.

Facebook wants to replace the system with one that solicits high-quality feedback instead of just votes. This would also prevent votes from being triggered by copy-and-pasted comments from privacy activists. Currently, if a proposed change gets 7,000 “substantive comments,” Facebook users can vote on the change and the vote will be binding if more than 30% of all Facebook users vote.

Facebook says that it’s doing away with the voting system because it “resulted in a system that incentivized the quantity of comments over their quality.” Therefore, the social network is “proposing to end the voting component of the process in favor of a system that leads to more meaningful feedback and engagement.”

Facebook is also proposing changes to its Data Use Policy, which explains how the site collects and uses user data. In the coming weeks, Facebook will roll out new ways of responding to questions and comments from its users, and they’ll be launching a section on Facebook where you’ll be able to submit questions about privacy to the company’s chief privacy officer of Policy, Erin Egan.

[via TechCrunch]

Facebook to end user voting on privacy issues is written by Craig Lloyd & originally posted on SlashGear.
© 2005 – 2012, SlashGear. All right reserved.

We’ve all heard stories about people losing jobs over their Facebook activity, but the Social Jobs Partnership is an initiative aimed at achieving the reverse. The project sees the National Association of Colleges and Employers (NACE), the DirectEmployers Association and the National Association of State Workforce Agencies working with Facebook to launch the Social Jobs Application today. The app helps recruiters reach Facebook’s considerable audience, while also introducing a professional stream to the site. Prospective employers can list vacancies by industry, location, and skill, and there’s already a bunch of recruitment sites on board, including BranchOut, DirectEmployers Association, Work4Labs, Jobvite and Monster.com. At launch, there are 1.7 million jobs up for grabs. A NACE survey recently highlighted that many recruiters are already leveraging the social platform to find staff, so a partnership to further facilitate the process seemed a natural progression. Missing the daily challenge of a 9-to-5, or just fancy a different one? Head down to the source, and update that resumé (but be sure to check your photo privacy settings first).

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