No 14 - Journal of Social Informatics / Revista de Informatica Sociala

n.a.I often use itI seldom use it6.96.94.45.29.61519.223.228.134.840.254.9Yes, but I don't use itNo10.417.211.510.82.12.644.252.80 10 20 30 40 50 60MySpace2009 MySpace2008 YouTube 2009 YouTube2008Figure 5 - Popularity of MySpace and YouTube in 2008 (N=1086) and in 2009 (N=1123)Other sites, that often are considered in recent literature as the most advanced innovation of thesocial web, still are not so popular among our sample, even if we can find modest increases from2008 to 2009. In particular, the great majority of our sample still doesn’t know, in 2009, about theexistence of sites such as Twitter (72.8%), Friendfeed (81.5%), LinkedIn (77.3%), SlideShare(77.3%), Delicious (82.3%) and Flickr (70.2%). Data relating to the active creation of content donot show significant changes in the two surveys, too. The percentage of active and creative usersalways remains substantially low (Figure 6), ranging from the 27.2% for what concerns the creationof content on YouTube, to a negligible 1.7% if we look at the number of subjects who upload theirpresentations on SlideShare and a 3.6% of subjects sharing their photos on Flickr. It is interesting toconsider, among other things, that while Wikipedia is “often used” by more than the half of oursample, with another 32.8% declaring to use it only rarely, only the 12.1% is actively involved inthe contribution of new content to this site. All things considered, it doesn’t seem that our sample isparticularly involved in the process of creating and sharing content in the Web 2.0; with theexception of Facebook, also the use of social network sites seems to be somehow lower than mightbe expected.