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Reasons Why People Think Social Media Is Not For Them

1. Its Just a Trend:

The first Social Network Emerged almost ten years ago and today billions of people world wide use them

2. The only people on the Internet are kids:

In the six-month period ending July 2009, Facebook saw a 513% growth in 55 + users

The average age of Facebook users in SA is 33 Twitter and YouTube at 31

Where are You?

More than 1,000,000,000

So… how do we get started?