Ratio - 50:38 versus 200:1

In just 1 year, the social networking site Facebook signed on more than 200 million users while the radio took 38 years to reach 50 million people.

Humans are hardwired to interact with humans and social networking it a primal need with reasons like these:

• Education - Teachers are now using social network to effectively post messages to tell the pupils of a a task to be done. Problems face with the task is immediately overcome with answers posted as reply.
• Peer pressure - A funny look is what is receive when a choice is made not to have a social networking account.
• Convenience - Social networking is easy to keep up with friends, all at the same time, instead of dealing with them one by one like e-mailing.
• Media pressure - Having no friends is like having no life, and so if you're not networking socially, you are nothing.
• Job hunting - People looking for employment use a social network to connect with others and find a job.

This is the Social Age.