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Social Media Fact Or Fiction
Study: Online Content Creators Outnumber Consumers 2,000 To 1
WASHINGTON — According to a study published Monday by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, for every person who reads, listens to, or watches some form of media on the internet, there are approximately 2,000 individuals engaged in creating new online content.
“In terms of web-based entertainment, journalism, and personal opinion pieces, creators now outnumber consumers by a factor of several hundred thousand percent—meaning that for every one viewer, there are dozens of fully staffed companies churning out articles, videos, blogs, vlogs, and countless social media posts hoping to lure that person to click,” said bureau commissioner Erica Groshen, adding that during each minute of online video streamed by a consumer, another whole lifetime’s worth of video content is uploaded.
“Furthermore, our analysis found that the massive increase in internet usage over the past two decades was due almost entirely to people going online to publish text or images they themselves had produced and then repeatedly hitting the refresh button to see if anyone else has looked at their work.”
Reports later confirmed that the six people who worked on this article are the only ones currently reading it.
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Our grandfathers made cars, appliances, and durable goods; we now make apps and hyperlinks
We are so fucked
+19 billion
I think that's also the correct ratio of individuals padding the advertising metrics versus actual consumers for said social media companies.
2,000 to 1?
So there are 7 billion content creators (everyone on earth) and... 3.5m internet consumers?
I call bullshit. More likely, there is 1 person who can't use Excel.
I agree OC. The numbers dont add up.
On another note however, its not just social media. Its print media too. I get calls at work all the time for "free subscriptions" to magazines all the time. Of course, those magazines just end up in the trash, but said magazines go to advertisers and tell them how big their circulation is. All of that paper advertising ends up right in the garbage. Talk about a waste!
'tis satire.
THE ONION...
Hello...
What is not satire is another JP Morgan banker dead in his 30's. Jason Alan Salais.
Missed the source. The Onion, check. However my take on print media advertising ending up in the trash isn't satire. Even at home I can't believe the little bit of stuff I buy from a company can pay for the mailbox full of junk mail I get every day.
If I see one more cat photo I'll puke! Why does everyone want to post their cat's photo online?
Please, leave your Pussy alone!
..might not be such a wacky concept in China.
I Love Onion(s)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KM-lEhhsLQw
Ah, but funny to the degree it is true!
Who said the content creators are human? :)
uh...hmmm...
maybe the numbers don't add up b/c 37 people died eating marijuana edibles after marinuana was legalized.
They might have eaten a fatty 10gram edible and comatosed themselves and stopped breathing.
mmmm....brownie....
I think it's probably accurate. They wouldn't print it if it weren't true.
lemme hit refresh and see if i got an up arrow for that
lol
Boris is return shortly and check if is people read comment. Please give Boris up arrow! Spasibo!
Leading academics and behavioral scientists are working fast to find a way to monetize the refresh button. Could bring in $billions.
Nothing important to say here, just snarkily waterfallin' Boris' comment, because he's popular, and I know he is seen, so I want to be seen too, because I think I'm cool, and I think you should think I'm cool too.
Yeah that's what I did too. It's the theme of the article. But as you and I prove it doesn't always work.
but to really trascend to the next level of vain circle-jerking douche-baggery, we'll need to have an annual awards banquet.
Awarding for Nobel Laureate is yearly event, no? Plenty circle jerk and douche is present.
You are troll, I am bridge.
People needed to READ THE SOURCE.
Of course I gave you an up arrow, Boris. Hell you could say pigs can fly and I'd give you an up arrow. (It just became habit.)
In defy of all known physical law and principle, winged porcine is levitate. You are grateful for give Boris more up vote!
I truly appreciate mangled English, check out http://www.engrish.com
Boris == Rusglish
More importantly, our grandfathers invented cars, appliances and durable goods.
Our grandfathers made cars, appliances, and durable goods; we now make apps and hyperlinks
Come on now!! We also make fake markets (Carbon Trade, for example), fake financial products AND statements, fake science, fake economic statistics, fake news, fake Presidents, fake wars, fake terrorist attacks... I know I'M real, but I'm not even sure about you, anymore, dear reader.
phew, good thing you didn't add "fake currency" to your list or fonestar would have had to ruin this thread too, with some inane bitcoin-to-the-moon-idiots comment.
Fake currency is Bitcon and the US Dollar. It is all fake.
...apps and hyperlinks,...
and everyone keeps forgeting the PORN!
Jizzmoney should have included that in first comment.
Yes, well I make really shitty music about being drunk and fat while I try to ignore the chaos around me - https://itunes.apple.com/us/artist/family-rotten/id826710005 That ought to count for something!
Defeated Imperial Japan
Defeated Nazi's Prussian military and allies.
Since...
China. Lose
Korea.....Armistice
Cuba. Lose
Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia. Hat Trick Lose.
War on Drugs. Lose
War on Poverty. Lose
Urban Renewal/ModelCities. Lose.
Iraq. 20 year delay of game.
Afghanistan. Ditto (Possible MIC equivalent of union tact of "don't kill the job")
Constitution... Lose.
Thank God that is the Onion. I almost had a heart attack.
We make something. How does it look to the guys that still live in the Amazonian rain forest. You need a car?
i was gonna ask for the onion, and there it was
Here's their best video. It's so close to the truth. Warning: Strong Content Language. Not Safe for Work.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8AyVh1_vWYQ
Touché!
I, for one, have never used that Internet thingee.....
Just as well. All the tubes are plugged filled.
www.kingoftherepublic.com
- Campaigning to sue Deutsche Bank CEOs for manipulation of the silver price.
Regards,
Mark
LOOK AT ME....Im the Pied Piper.....and ill show you where it's at!
cmon babe...follow me.....
how is it you have a picture for everything?
+1
I already have almost 12,000 and I produce about a dozen images every 25 hour cycle.
Although there is a panoply of topics for me to skewer, I pretty much know what to expect so I can plan some things in advance ;-)
You must have 2,000 individuals engaged in helping you.
The internet water army marches on!
Can I post this on facebook?
Yes
How many USB ports does that TV have? I can't find this model on Amazon. Link?
/s
Homer simpson: "I told you last night NO!"
lol
A true 1960's classic!!
Fabulous!!
Thats a lot of people working in the Porno Industry
MOst of them are "butt" ugly. If they just had a better looking butt.
It is fake Tits, fake Butt, fake Orgasms...It is all fucking fake.
You can fake orgasms? Why, goodness gracious, I've learned something new today! ;-)
Miffed;-)
Really hard for a guy to fake one, just look for the evidence...
Well -
"WASHINGTON—According to a study published Monday by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics"
this was kind of a red flag for me. Althoug, I do believe 99 % of internet content creators are posting total bs.
onion soup for dinner I see.
Crow for some.
I bet fonegox accounts for more than half the clicks on ZH BitCoin threads.
Maybe contemporary advertising schemes are destined to fail.
i have a mute button, a swivel chair, and a piece of cardboard and some tape
i cant stand advertisments being beamed at me from the moment i awake in the morning until i'm ready to sleep
i clik thru on here once in a while as a courtesy in exchange for the content
FACT, sadly
"Bureau of Labor Statistics, for every person who reads, listens to, or watches some form of media on the internet, there are approximately 2,000 individuals engaged in creating new online content."
This sounds like total BS.
Since it is coming from the "Burear of Labor Statistics", the Government agency that lies about everything that it publishes, like the "unemployment rate is 6.6%", it has to be BS.
It really does help to read all the way down to the end of the post before commenting.
You did not even have to read any of the article to know that it was from the Onion.
When the tag at the TOP, under the Title, read "Onion" I already knew that it was going to be satire.
I love Onion(s)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KM-lEhhsLQw
This article reposted from the Onion is less farsical than most of what was printed as news today.
The Onion - America's Finest News Source.
Giving a new meaning to the words "quote stuffing"
"quote stuffing"?!?
I thought that was a porn page. Oral sex for those who won't shut up.
If you got this far down and haven't realized that The Onion made this article I have some bitcoin I could sell you...
Is the offer valid if I did realize it? How much bitcoins do you have and what do you want for them?
I've come to the conclusion that The Onion, and or Fonestar, must be the federal gubbermints official source for all of its statistics.
Don’t miss this limited once in a lifetime offer to gain instant fame with 100,000 hits on your You Tube video. Act now and we’ll throw in 50,000 Likes on your Facebook page, absolutely free. Hell, we’ll even make the damn things for you.
Is it Social Networking or Social Engineering? The Shadow (and the Onion) knows.
Anthony Weiner self published?
You don't think his weiner did it on it's own do you?
Speaking for myself as a self employed leach of society, my internet contributions to the market are extremely limited. I never click on any add other than those I am actively seeking and even then 59 times out of sixty I do not buy. And I'm not being particularly productive right now either. How much productivity is lost due to the internet, or are we not allowed to ask?
I think that 2000/1 is the ratio of the people collecting/paying into social security.
But the planet is getting warmer, no wait, colder, oh, now warmer, oop, fucking colder again...
Fuck the facts, we are the planet of hyperbole and spin.
The only people I know who use Twitter are web design/marketing people and media people, period.
Refreshing to see if people have looked at their posts is so lame. Posting pictures of my cat is much better.
Satire and all, I made an opposite observation. I think that the rise of tablets, smartphones and touch-sensitive devices in general illustrates a major shift towards content consumerism. The biggest asset of such contraptions is the screen - an output device. On-screen keyboard is almost an after-thought. You point a finger or utter a phrase and absorb pre-digested material. Content creators still use mice, keyboard and big old-fashion PC's, because those prioritize input tools over the output. They make creation convenient. For an average Joe with an internet hookup, all the input devices get in the way of consumption. That Joe doesn't treat a device as an equal or as a production tool. He wants the smart-whatever-thing, to know what he wants and feed it to him in the most effortless way possible.
Sure there's a lot of machine and user generated crap on the web. As one of my IT instructors said about 20 years ago: "Computers make it really easy to manufacture vast amounts of trash in very little time". And that explains the popularity of search engines along with social networks. The days of simply "browsing" URL's are over. Being able to find useful information on the web is almost a science in itself.
You've got some nerve fouling this thread with your logic and reason.
Is FaceBook keeping track of the clicks?
/s/
Got to love the Onion -
That looks like a Benny Bufano sculpture atop the TV set.
FARCEBOOK social cloud burst 2.0.. Brought to you the same 2000 NASDAQ EBITDA Ponzi... On one of the CNBS or Bloombust there was a guy talking up the big Samsung pnone the idiot interviewer asked the Apple polisher press if it was Iphone killer? The muppet mavin was shocked when hearing samsung already outsells Apple by a large amount. THE SCRIPT IS AMAZING AND WHY SERIOUS VIEWER DON'T WATCH. Benioff CRM is the worst cloud crap around. The whole reason for personel computing WAS AND IS PERSONEL unless you decide. Cloud is NSA Farcebook is facial reconization. Farcebook and Google are stealing money from false cicks.....
http://www.businessinsider.com/salesforce-ceo-pushing-clinton-for-2016-2...
This confirms how special ZH is!!! Just one person writes all the original posts. You are so amazing Tyler!
Hilarious Satire. But on a more serious note, as long as there's porn to download there will be lots of people downloading compared to uploading files. Or, as the founder of the internet once quipped, "if we got rid of all the internet porn sites there would be only one site left and it would be called BRING BACK THE PORN"
18 votes, and how many 'reads'? on this post?
1,000's of reads, and 100's of comments,
but the same 18 people keep coming back to see if anyone read their comments,
welcome to ZH
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Let's see how accurate that means there should be 18,000 reads on this post?
But how many votes are one person one vote, me thinks given 10-20 avatars for every person, that may only 2-3 different people voted, people who care about voting.
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I never vote, and never UP/DOWN,.. so toss that into your calcs.
The problem with voting or up/down is that your running scripts when you do that, often they send your IP home or such.