EthicsStat

…Now You Know

Addressing Social Networking

Ethics Resource CenterApril 22, 2009

Source: http://www.facebook.com/press/info.php?statistics

General Growth• More than 200 million active users • More than 100 million users log on to Facebook at least once each day • More than two-thirds of Facebook users are outside of college • The fastest growing demographic is those 35 years old and older

User Engagement • More than 3.5 billion minutes are spent on Facebook each day (worldwide) • More than 20 million users update their statuses at least once each day

Mobile Users• There are more than 30 million active users currently accessing Facebook through their mobile

devices

Recent Facebook Statistics: How Much of This Occurs at Work?

Global internet usage surpassed 1 billion unique visitors in December 2008Source: http://www.comscore.com/press/release.asp?press=2698

What Are You Doing to Promote Productive Internet Usage in Your Organization?

16%

11%

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10%

20%

NBES 2007 ERC 2008/09 Client Database

To What Extent Have You Observed the Abuse of Internet by Other Employees At Work?

Percent Agreement

Survey Population

Social networking through Facebook or Twitter can be beneficial to organizations if managed correctly, but a true productivity killer if

abused by employees.