Social Media is a virtual medium that helped people to connect with in virtual communities. People share personal thought, exchange interests, ideas, pictures, videos through these platform. Now, this is the most browsed category in entire Internet. The Leader of Social Media platform Facebook holds around 1.6 Billions accounts alone. This is huge. So, Lets see some crazy fun facts about this most popular category of internet.
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It is now No. 1 online activity in the world. In 2008, Social Media passes p*rn*graphy as the #1 online activity. People are now spends more time on social networks than others and average a person spends around 1.5 hour each day on these networks.
Teens Dominate Social Media
About 90% teens has accounts on social media platform. They also spends more time on social media then adults. They spends around 27 hours each week on online social platforms.
1 Billion Photos Everyday
There are estimated 1 billion photos are uploaded on social media platform every single day.
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5 Accounts per Person
The average accounts owned by an individual is 5. That's mean, an individual might have accounts in different social platform or, have multiple accounts in a single platform.
Coolest Social Network
In 2015, a study found that, Among the crucial teenage "YouTube" is the coolest social network in the world and by adults is "Facebook".
People are Addicted to Social Media
According to 2011 Pew Research data, about 80% US adults are online and about 60% of them use social networking sites. In July 2012 alone, US spent 121 billion minutes or 230,213 years of time on this month
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In January 2016, According to the Facebook Inc they got around 4 Billion accounts on their platforms. And these platforms are Facebook(1.6B), WhatsApp(900M), Messenger(800M), Instagram(400M).
7,000 Tweets in a Second
Twitter got around 200 billion tweets each year or 500 million tweets per day and average 7,000 in a seconds.
490 Photos in a Second
Instagram got around 490 photos every seconds and around 15.5 billion photos every year.
2,100 Skypes in a Second
Microsoft's Skype got 66.2 billion Skype calls every year and an average 2,100 Skype calls every second.
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Ellen DeGeneres Create History
In 2014, on the 'Oscars' Ellen break the records of most retweeted tweet in the world. She get 1 million retweets within an hour and till today(March, 2016) it reached over 3.3 million retweets and 2.1 million Like. She took a selfie with some of Hollywood's most famous celebrities.
Instagram Selfie
In 2014, a statistic show that there were around 57 million selfies on Instagram and the most selfie uploaded by Kylie Jenner in that time.
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Social Networks paid hackers oftenly for finding their system vulnerability. Facebook paid minimum $500 to individuals who can figure out their system bugs. Also, Facebook runs "Bug Bounty" program starts in 2011 for "White Hat" hackers and paid around $2 Million dollars each year.
Twitter Takeover Indonesia by Population
If all the Twitter accounts users are counted as a citizen of a country, then Twitter will be the 4th largest country in the earth by population and take place after USA with 305 million users.
By Population Facebook is The Largest Country
Facebook would be the largest country in the world if we count their 1.6 Billion users as citizen of a country.
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Social Media Ban in Office
There are 54% companies ban social media such as Facebook, Twitter, WhatsApp and many more on their office network for their employee.
MySpace
Once it was the largest social network platform in the world. They dominate the social platform from 2005 to 2008. 2008 was the last year Myspace were able to generate their highest success in business about $800 million in revenue. Then, their success get stopped by Facebook. In 2007, Myspace was valued at $12 billion dollar and in 2011 it came down to $50-$200 million dollars. In 2013, MySpace said that, they has 36 million users.
MySpace Made Mistake Not Once, Twice
Chris DeWolfe one of founders of MySpace reject $75 million dollar offer from Mark Zuckerberg in 2005 to buy Facebook twice. Now in March 2016 Facebook's total market value are around $300 Billion dollars.
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Research show that, People who post or use social networks frequently, they risk their real-life relation more than other who don't.
Facebook Makes Divorces
In 2011, A study found that Facebook responsible for 1 in every 3rd divorce in the United Kingdom.
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