Facts about social networks
YouTube is the most popular brand with over 40 million followers
IN this day and age we are all surrounded by the buzz of social networks.
Most of us are so used to the luxury of sites such as Facebook and Twitter that we wouldn’t really know life without them.
Here are some fun facts about the Internet and social networking sites:
Internet
• China has created treatment camps for Internet addicts
• 30 000 sites are hacked daily
• High speed Internet can be accessed on the way up Mount Everest
• Researchers are debating on adding Internet addiction to the list of mental disorders
• 204 million emails are sent per minute
• 900 000 000 monthly visitors
• There are 600 000 hack attempts daily
• Users can change their language settings to ‘Pirate’
• Facebook is primarily blue because Mark Zuckerberg suffers red and green colour blindness
• The ‘like’ button was originally going to be called ‘awesome’
• Smartphone users check Facebook 14 times a day
• 100 000 000 monthly visitors
• The top 10 selfie-related hashtags cover a total of 40 million photos
• ‘No filter’ is the most popular filter
• Justin Bieber is the most followed person with over 20 million followers
• Facebook bought Instagram in 2012 for $1-billion (R 11 551 400 000)
• Originally going to be called Backrub
• If you search for the word ‘Askew’, the content will tilt to the right
• Google hopes to scan and upload 129 million unique books by 2020
• A camel was hired to create the street view of a desert
• Every day 16% of the searches that occur are ones that Google has never seen before
• Every minute two million searches are performed
• There are over 300 000 000 monthly visitors
• 300 billion tweets have been sent since inception
• Over 20 million Twitter users are fake
• China is the country with the most users – over 35 million
• 170 minutes – the average time per month spent by users on Twitter
