Web Secret #97: Just The Facts - 2010

What are the 2010 facts about the Internet and social media?

Thank you, Jeff Bulla, for answering that very question.

Think about this:

First website - 1990
130 websites - 1993
234 Million websites - 2010

Some facts about social media:

• Facebook has 400 Million Users
  
• Facebook has grown by 100 million users in last 9 months
  
• If Facebook were a country it would be the 4th largest in the world
  
• The fastest growing segment on Facebook is 55-65 year-old females
  
• There are over 200 Million Blogs
  
• Over 30 Billion YouTube Videos are viewed every month
  
• The 2nd largest search engine in the world is YouTube
  
• Twitter received 74 Million unique visitors in January 2010
  
• Twitter passed the 10 Billion Tweets mark in March 2010
  
• 80% of companies use LinkedIn as a primary tool to find employees
  
• 2010 - Gen Y will outnumber Baby Boomers

Some facts about Gen Y (especially those born between 1985-1995):

• Almost all have a Facebook
  
• 50% have a YouTube channel (A YouTube channel is the "home page" of a user - usually displays favorite videos, comments, subscribers to the channel, and other social networking features.)
  
• They are not on LinkedIn
  
• They are not on Twitter

Think about this:

• Different generations use social media differently
  
• YouTube was founded in 2005 - five years later, it's the second largest search engine in the world. It is owned by Google, the world's largest search engine
  
• 20 years ago there was only one website, Info.cern.ch

Everything on the Internet is changing fast. Very, very fast.

JESS3 / The State of The Internet from JESS3 on Vimeo.

Do you think anyone in the world really understands the implication of this hyper accelerated change?

I don't.