InformatIon Upload: Accessing Web 2.0
By J. eddie smitH iV
It’s probably safe at this point to say that social networking isn’t going away. Its uses and effects
have already touched nearly everyone’s life in some way—whether you actively update your
Facebook status or simply use Wikipedia for reference. Consider these recent statistics:
social media sites are growing three times faster
than the overall internet in terms of
“time spent online,” according to nielsen in 2009
six-year-old facebook now has more than 400 million users
(exceeding the population of the u.s.). Half of them log on to facebook every day,
and 35 million of them update their status every day
As of march 2010, users of youtube uploaded 20 hours of video every minute,
a rate that equals 12 centuries of video per year
twitterers produce 50 million tweets a day,
or 600 per second. this figure increased 1,400 percent
from 2009 to 2010
it took 477 days for Linkedin to acquire its first million members.
As of october 2009, the site boasted more than 50 million users,
the last million joining in only 12 days
nielsen reports that the average social media user
spent more than 5 1/2 hours on social media sites in december 2009.
this figure is up 82 percent from the previous year
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