[GFischer]

I'm pretty sure most of these figures refer to US only (and I wish they said so) and I still find them quite surprising.

There's no way that married couples in, say, China, or (an example I know better) Brazil, met via social media. Only about 1 in 4 people use Internet worldwide ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_Internet_usage ) and of those, about 50% use social media ( http://randomthougts101.blogspot.com/2009/06/social-media-ne... ), so, even if all of the social media users matched up, I doubt it would come up to 1 in 8 !!! (yes, I know I made some dubious assumptions along the way, but I hope you get the idea)

I also expect less than 10% of companies worldwide to use social media for recruitment currently, not to mention less than 1% of governments! (made up figures, but along the lines of what I'd expect)

BTW, from "real" figures, it seems about 12% of the population worldwide works in the public sector:

http://unpan1.un.org/intradoc/groups/public/documents/un/un-...

[rosskimbarovsky]

All good points.