Four out of every five affluent Generation Y adults logs on to Facebook daily, and many of them go to the site to engage with brands, according to L2 Think Tank.
Generation Y Likes Facebook More Than Television
Reports
Facebook Boosts Fitness Through Positive Social Pressure
Facebook can help motivate fitness seekers to perform better, according to a research study by Derek Foster, Conor Linehan and Shaun Lawson at the U.K. University of Lincoln’s Social Computing Research Center.
Are Clickthroughs Not Suited To Facebook Pages?
If clickthroughs are a marketer’s end goal, then Facebook postings need more Twitterification, according to a study by Social Twist. Either make links a greater proportion of page content or revamp your whole online game plan.
REPORT: One In Ten Of Your Friends Will Not Be Human By 2015
One out of every ten Facebook friends could be a bot within five years, predicts the Gartner Group.
Report Claims Facebook Could Result In Asthma Attacks
The Lancet medical journal published a case study suggesting that Facebook triggered an 18-year-old man’s asthma attack.
REPORT: 50 Percent Of SMBs Block Facebook At Work
Do you have access to Facebook at work? If you do, you might be one of the lucky ones. Research by Internet security company, Webroot, found more small to medium-sized businesses are creating Internet policies to prevent workers from going on social media sites during the 9-to-5 slog.
Study: Facebook increases face-to-face socializing
Researchers at the Australian Psychological Society (APS) polled 1834 adults to see how they used social networking sites. The survey found “online social networking increases, rather than reduces, face-to-face socializing.”
Facebook Study Reveals Why We Friend Each Other
Why are you friends with your friends? Is it because they share the same racial background as you? Or because they are of the same ethnicity as you? Or is it for an entirely different reason? With the help of Facebook, researchers have found a new way of looking at frienships, and their findings may surprise you.
Study Reveals What Times Facebook Users Are Most Active
A new study finds the times that Facebook users are most active on the site.
Report: Millionaires Love To Use Facebook
Millionaires love the idea of social networking sites but it seems they rarely have time to use them once they sign up.
