This seems highly ironic, so we need to qualify that we’re getting it second-hand: The bank that led a $1.5 billion investment in Facebook, Goldman Sachs, says in a report released in March that social media doesn’t have much influence upon online shopping activity.
Only five percent of the respondents surveyed by Goldman ranked social networks as a leading influence upon their online shopping activity. The infographic reproduced below shows that “none of these” got more response than any of the named choices.

