Social Media

FacebookMore than 350 million users suffer

from Facebook Addiction Syndrome. 25% of users don’t bother with any

kind of privacy control. The average Facebook user has 130

friends.You must be 13 years old to have a

Facebook account.◦Statistics from Economist, Social Times,

CNN.

Facebook1. 85% of women are annoyed by their friends (note – I don’t think this is just limited to Facebook!!).2. Links about sex are shared 90% more than any other link.3. More than 350 million users suffer from Facebook Addiction Syndrome.4. 25% of users don’t bother with any kind of privacy control.5. The average Facebook user has 130 friends.Statistics from Economist, Social Times, CNN.LinkedIn11. Two new members sign up to LinkedIn every second.12. LinkedIn has 161 million members in more than 200 countries and communities.13. Members are on track to make more than 5.3 billion searches on the platform in 2012.14. LinkedIn’s revenue has doubled every quarter for the last two years.15. There are more than one million LinkedIn groups.Statistics from LinkedIn Press Centre.YouTube16. YouTube was founded to share dinner clips of a party due to the files being too large for email.17. The most watched video is Lady Gaga’s Bad Romance, with 470 million views.18. The most watched non-commercial video is Charlie Bit My Finger Again, with over 458 million views.19. The average visitor spends 15 minutes per day on YouTube.20. It originally started life as a dating site and was influenced by the Hot Or Not website.Statistics: Techzine and YouTube Archives.Blogging21. 3 million new blogs come online every month.22. 60% of bloggers are aged between 25-44.23. 20% of bloggers have been blogging for more than 6 years.24. Professional bloggers upkeep an average of four blogs.25. 35% of corporate bloggers worked in a journalism, media or professional writing role.Statistics: Technorati State of the Blogosphere 2011..

Twitter750 tweets per second are shared on Twitter.

If Twitter was a country, it’d be the 12th largest in the world.

30% of Twitter users have an income of more than $100,000.

Twitter handles more search queries per month than Bing and Yahoo combined (24 billion versus 4.1 billion and 9.4 billion respectively).◦ Statistics from Compete, Twitter Press Centre and

BNN News.

LinkedInTwo new members sign up to LinkedIn

every second.LinkedIn has 161 million members in more

than 200 countries and communities.Members are on track to make more than

5.3 billion searches on the platform in 2012.

LinkedIn’s revenue has doubled every quarter for the last two years.

◦Statistics from LinkedIn Press Centre.

YouTubeYouTube was founded to share

dinner clips of a party due to the files being too large for email.

The average visitor spends 15 minutes per day on YouTube.

◦Statistics: Techzine and YouTube Archives.

Blogging3 million new blogs come online every

month.

60% of bloggers are aged between 25-44.

20% of bloggers have been blogging for more than 6 years.

◦Statistics: Technorati State of the Blogosphere 2011.

PinterestPinterest drives more referral traffic than

YouTube, Google+ and LinkedIn combined.Users spend an average of just under 16

minutes on the site.The most popular age group is 25-34 year

olds, accounting for 27.4% of the user base.

Pinterest receives 1.3 million visitors per day.

◦Statistics: Modea

Instagram25% of Instagram users upload more

than three pictures per day.Over 5 million images are uploaded

every day.President Obama is on Instagram,

having joined in January 2012. There are 575 Likes per second.

◦Statistics: Instagram Press Centre, ReadWriteWeb, Social Media Delivered.

Google+

“Student” is the number one occupation of Google+ users.

More than 2/3 of its users are male.38.

The Google +1 button is used more than 5 billion times per day.

Google+ is adding 625,000 new users every day.

◦Statistics: Google Blog, Techcrunch, Google Investor Reports.

The Mobile Web

42% of phones in the U.S. are smartphones, with 44% of European users on a smartphone.

More than 110 million smartphone users in the U.S and Europe access social networks and blogs on their phones.

Tablets took just two  years to reach 40 million users in the U.S. – it took smartphones 7 years to reach this figure

China is the number one country in the world for smartphone use, with approximately 1 billion users.◦Statistics: ComScore and SoMobile.

The Bottom Line…The technology Tidal Wave is here.

We need to learn to surf or be left behind.

Our children are growing up in a world that is much different than the one we grew up in.

We must prepare our children to be savvy technology users.

What are the most popular websites?10 | Twitter

250,000,000 - Estimated Unique Monthly Visitors11 | WordPress

225,000,000 - Estimated Unique Monthly Visitors

12 | LinkedIn200,000,000 - Estimated Unique Monthly Visitors

13 | Microsoft175,000,000 - Estimated Unique Monthly Visitors

14 | Ask150,000,000 - Estimated Unique Monthly Visitors

15 | Pinterest140,500,000 - Estimated Unique Monthly Visitors

What are the most popular websites?6 | Wikipedia

400,000,000 - Estimated Unique Monthly Visitors

7 | MSN 300,000,000 - Estimated Unique Monthly Visitors

8 | Bing 290,000,000 - Estimated Unique Monthly Visitors

9 | eBay 275,000,000 - Estimated Unique Monthly Visitors

What are the most popular websites?1 | Google

1,000,000,000 - Estimated Unique Monthly Visitors

2 | YouTube 900,000,000 - Estimated Unique Monthly Visitors

3 | Facebook 800,000,000 - Estimated Unique Monthly Visitors

4 | Yahoo! 750,000,000 - Estimated Unique Monthly Visitors

5 | Amazon 500,000,000 - Estimated Unique Monthly Visitors