19 Millennial Generation Y Facebook Trends and Statistics

Generation Y and Facebook

A study was conducted by Millennia Banding and identified Incorporated with respect to over 50 million Facebook data points. This article summarizes the findings of the study.

Overview of Generation Y (18 – 29) years

In this group, at least 80% of the sampled population listed one school on their profile, job entries is listed by at least 36% of the sampled population with an average job tenure of just about 2 years. It was also discovered that for generation Y, the fifth most popular job title is “Owner”. 41% of millennials use Facebook every day.

Overview of Generation X, the Fortune 500

For this category, approximately 10% of those who had a job record has worked with a fortune 500 company. 7% of the sampled population still works with one of these top companies.

Top 10 Industries and Employers

Here is a list of the top industries that were included in the survey.

Industry
1. Travel & Hospitality – 7.2%
2. Consumer Product – 6.8%
3. Government Military – 4.5%
4. Technology – 4.4%
5. Education – 3.9%
6. Retail & Fashion – 3.6%
7. Finance – 3.3%
8. Media – 2.3%
9. Medical & Health Care – 2.1%
10. Non – Profit – 1.7%

Employers
1. Armed Forces – 3.2%
2. Walmart – 0.53%
3. Starbucks – 0.45%
4. Target – 0.44%
5. Best Buy – 0.38%
6. McDonalds – 0.28%
7. Abercrombie & Fitch – 0.26%
8. YMCA – 0.23%
9. CVS Caremark – 0.21%
10. UPS – 0.20%

Top 10 Job Titles

Here is a list of the top job titles and the percentage of each from the survey.

1. Server – 2.9%
2. Manager – 2.5%
3. Intern – 2.3%
4. Sales Associate – 1.7%
5. Owner – 1.2%
6. Cashier – 1.2%
7. Teacher – 1.0%
8. Supervisor – 0.94%
9. Assistant – 0.84%
10. Sales Rep – 0.84%

How Many Friends Do They Make?

It was discovered that 82% of the sampled population has at least one friend at work, 53% has more than five friends at work while 40% has more than 10 friends at work. On the average, work friends count is 16 while the average friends count is 696.