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		<title>Consumer Profiles Use of Social Media</title>
		<link>http://www.variablemarkup.com/2008/05/11/consumer-profiles-use-of-social-media/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 May 2008 02:13:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Julson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There&#8217;s a good article over at Advertising Age describing profiles of consumers who use Social Media.  Here are a couple<a href="http://www.variablemarkup.com/2008/05/11/consumer-profiles-use-of-social-media/" class="searchmore">Read the Rest...</a><div class="clr"></div>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>There&#8217;s a good <a target="_blank" href="http://adage.com/digital/article?article_id=126828">article</a> over at <a target="_blank" href="http://adage.com">Advertising Age</a> describing profiles of consumers who use Social Media.  Here are a couple of the profiles, for the rest, check out the article.</p>
<p> &#8221;<strong>SOCIALLY ISOLATED<br />
</strong>These people are generally unhappy with their lives and feel alone. Not surprisingly, they fall at average or below average for e-mailing. But that doesn&#8217;t mean they eschew social media. In fact, they&#8217;re 12% more likely than the average person to use blogs, message boards or social-networking sites. They also post comments on blogs at least twice a month; personal, music, consumer-product and video-game blogs are most visited. &#8221;</p>
<p> &#8221;<strong>BRAND-LOYAL<br />
</strong>This group shies away from buying unknown brands just for a bargain and prefers to buy brand-name goods. They&#8217;re very average social-media users, but some subjects of interest drive them to social media more than the average person: They&#8217;re 21% more likely to read environmental blogs and 22% more likely to use professional-networking sites to make new contacts. &#8221;</p>
<p>There are 9 profiles in all.</p>
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