The #RLTM Scoreboard:  Social Networking Stats for the Week. Tumblr: 69 million blogs. via  Tumblr. Please email marissa@modernmediapartners.com if you have additional updates, or a social network that you feel should be on the list. More than half of social media users in the U.S. social media user is just under 37 – this supports Pingdom’s assertion that “social media is most definitely not just for the young.” Social Media Statistics #RLTM scoreboard social networking statistics social networking stats MORE >>

Social networks online are fundamentally different to our offline social networks – our friends, acquaintances, colleagues and others. Offline we have distinct groups of people that we interact with in different ways, whereas online in social networks we tend to merge all of our friends into one main pool. This great presentation from Paul Adams , head of user experience at Google, looks at how we interact offline and online and takes a sociological approach to understanding how people interact in social networks and the consequences of this. MORE >>

New blogging systems like Posterous and Tumblr seem to be pretty popular, and they fill a nice middle ground: short content, easy sharing, social stuff. But he’s a bit off in portraying Tumblr this way. Tumblr, to me at least, isn’t a blog platform but something new entirely - a social network for both original and curated content that is longer than a tweet and often more visual in nature. This nuance is lost in the news that Tumblr now has more blogs than Wordpress.com. huge part of Tumblr’s appeal is its community. They’re cool. MORE >>

The #RLTM Scoreboard:  Social Networking Stats for the Week. Tumblr: 68 million blogs. via  Tumblr. Please email marissa@modernmediapartners.com if you have additional updates, or a social network that you feel should be on the list. Twitter users are 33X more active than Google+ users, according to a new study by social media research firm Umpf. Each site had to have the social sharing buttons for all four platforms. Check out the infographic: Infographic and research by Umpf social media agency. Facebook: 955 million active users. MORE >>

the big kid on the social media block is Facebook. But a look at social networks around the world shows that there are many platforms competing for niche markets. This informative infographic from Ignite Social Media offers some interesting statistics. It shows the rising stars and the fading lights of social media, as well as stats about what kinds of people are using which apps. Have you ever wondered which social networks are most popular with men? Where do the wealthiest among us go for their networking needs? Here in the U.S., MORE >>