Poll: Facebook, Twitter don't connect with hunters, anglers
While anglers and hunters have made good use of chat rooms and forums on the Internet to share information and send alerts about bad regulatory policies and actions, social networking sites are not getting much of a workout, a new poll indicates.
According to the May 2010 http://HunterSurvey.com and http://AnglerSurvey.com surveys, 64 percent of hunters and anglers report they are not using Facebook or Twitter to gather outdoor information.
The two surveys were compiled by Florida-based Southwick Associates, one of the largest pollsters of outdoors trends in the country. The fishing and hunting surveys began in 2004.
Twenty-four percent of hunters who use social media prefer Facebook, while 10.7 percent said they visit YouTube. MySpace was third (9.6 percent), followed by CamoSpace (3.2 percent), LinkedIn (2.5 percent) and Twitter (2.4 percent).
Facebook also is the No. 1 choice of anglers who dabble in social media. It led the poll with 22 percent, with YouTube coming in at half that. MySpace was in third place (8 percent), followed by LinkedIn (3.6 percent) and Twitter (2.5 percent).
