1 is for the 1 billion+ users currently on Facebook. That is approximately 1 in 7 people on earth today.
In fact, by the time you are reading this blog post, the number in users is
sure to be much higher due to the ever-growing environment of social media!
2 is for the number of years (according to Moore’s law)
it takes for computers software and hardware to double in processing power,
memory capacity and other key measurements. Moore’s
Law is a well-known observation in the computing world and it was first
described by Gordon Moore who was co-founder of Intel.
3 is for the number of W’s in “World Wide Web” which allows us to view web pages and websites over
the Internet (please note; these ARE two different things). The web was
invented by computer scientist Tim Berners-Lee. Things like file sharing and
Skype calling are two examples of uses of the Internet which don’t use the
World Wide Web.
4 is for 4Chan, the origin of pretty-much everything
which is either funny, offensive or both online! Essentially a messaging board, 4Chan spawn the “hactivist”
board anonymous and is responsible for “memes” such as “lolcats”, “rick-rolling”
and more. The Guardian once described the 4Chan community as “lunatic,
juvenile, brilliant, ridiculous and alarming.”
5 is for the 5 million terror bytes of data that are online. A “terror byte” is a thousand times larger than a
gigabyte and a million times larger than a megabyte. There is so much data
available online that Google estimate that their search engines of index is
only 0.04% of it.
6 is for the 6 billion mobile phone subscriptions in the
world as of July 2012; with 5 million
of these in the developing world. That’s 6 mobile phones for every 7 people on
the planet! In fact, it’s common for citizens in developing countries to only
have access to the Internet through their mobile phone or device. In the UK
alone, there are more mobile phones than people with 52% of UK phone-owners
using a smartphone.
7 is for the 7 out of 10 people in the developed world
that are connected to the Internet in
some way, shape or form. Internet access isn’t just for the developed world
either; one third of the world’s entire population is connected to the Internet,
with 8 new people connecting online for the first time every single second.
8 is for the 80% of all emails that are spam. Hopefully you all have good anti-spam filters set up on
your email account so they don’t make their unwanted way into your inbox. Spam
can range from shoddy selling techniques, banking/buying scams to unwanted emails
from social networking websites. Some people say that spam actually stands for “stupid,
pointless, annoying messages”.
9 is for the 90% of companies that use social media for
recruitment purposes. And I’m not
just talking about LinkedIn; although 94.5% of recruiters say they have
successfully hired a candidate they have found via LinkedIn. In addition to
this, 42% of recruiters have also used Twitter to try and find potential
candidates and 33% have used Facebook.
10 is for the 10 minutes that it takes for one million
tweets to be posted to Twitter at any
given time. It took Twitter 3 years, 2 months and 1 day to reach their 1
billionth tweet and now, it takes less than 3 days!
Post inspired by Nobull
Communications: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0iKvP1pkN_Y
Thank you for reading! If you think I should write another
post on “The Internet in Numbers” on 11-20 (or more) please comment below.
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