The State of the Internet Posted on August 02, 2011 Post a comment

The internet has become such an integral part of our everyday lives that many people don’t understand what is really going on out there in the World Wide Web. Between websites, social networks, file sharing, e-commerce, global imaging, Wikipedia, e-mail, games, videos, instant messaging and VOIP, there is an unending plethora of information being accessed by users around the world every second. It’s a true challenge to wrap our heads around the amount of internet activity going on at a given moment, but luckily Online Schools is here to help. They have built a website called The State of the Internet which shows an array of information being transmitted at any given second throughout the web. A few highlights include:

- 1/13 people in the world is on Facebook
- 119 million tweets per day
- 35 hours of video is uploaded to YouTube every minute
- Your Facebook profile is worth $91
- Hulu is watched twice as much as network television
- 2 billion YouTube videos watched per day

For more interesting facts, and up-to-the-second stats, see it all for your own eyes at http://www.onlineschools.org/state-of-the-internet/soti.html