I can also blame them for adding a sensationalist headline which promises "Unbelievable Facts And Figures" and then follows it up with a combination of a few completely boring facts (omg half the world's population is under thirty as you might have suspected if you thought about it for a moment!) and some statements which are unbelievable only in the rather trivial sense that they're almost certainly complete bullshit (one out of eight married couples met via social media? I imagine at least seven out of eight couples married before there was such a thing as "social media")
So in conclusion, I do blame them for putting together a link-whoring, sensationalized, extremely dull blog post based on someone else's work for the purposes of attempting to drive traffic to their site under false pretences.
That one surprised me - I'd love to see some numbers. I've heard for ages now that the the porn industry is the leader in creating new internet technologies. Does that mean the social media companies will be the pioneers now? I can't tell if they are actually innovating or just trying to outdo each other.
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-...
