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The Internet is a strange, huge beast. It is getting bigger, faster and more mobile each day. Ferocious social networks fight each other to be on top and gain more of our attention and personal information. An entire economy is generated from our browsing habits.
This is the face of the Internet now.
The Internet is considered so important that access is a legal right in countries like Finland, Spain and Estonia. Countries like Egypt and Turkmenistan on the contrary are Internet black-holes, as they are censoring it at a pervasive or substantial level. In terms of quality, all networks are not created equal.
Because of ever cheaper devices, the ability to access the Internet via cellphone networks and increasing broadband reach, the actual number of people online won't plateau for decades. But the net is still mature enough for the growth in adoption to begin slowing down soon.
89% of emails
are spam
There are 152 million
blogs on the Internet
Only 20% of Individuals
in the developing world
are online
Back in 2008 MySpace and Facebook were fighting it out neck to neck for the top spot in the global race to be the top social network. Facebook is now the clear winner, but smaller contenders like Foursquare are winning more users at a steady pace. Business-oriented social networking site LinkedIn emerges as the fourth largest.
Outside the Social Network race, websites like ubiquitous Google are collecting or generating an enormous amount of data.
Lady Gaga is Twitter's
most followed user with
8,400,000+ followers
1 person out of 13
is on
Facebook
There are more searches for
Justin Bieber
than for Jesus.
Social networking sites continues to gain momentum. They are so prevalent there is almost no escape from it; we spend a ridiculous amount of time on them.
US Women spend
1 minute out of 6
on social networking sites
HULU is watched
twice as much
as the TV networks
11% of 30+ yo
Internet users maintain
a personal blog
Many social media sites are expected to launch public stock offerings this year including the professional-networking site LinkedIn and the discount service Groupon. The skyrocketing valuations in social media indicate where financial markets perceive growth and value in the Internet ecosystem these days.
Your Facebook profile
is worth $91
The online dating
industry is worth
$ 4 billion worldwide
Google's stock prices
6 times bigger
than their initial value.
