Article Review: Stats on the Internet

Summary

In one second
- 1,633 tweets published on Twitter
- 2.8 million emails are sent
- 333 tumblr posts are made
In one minute
- 694,445 searches on Google
- 600 videos are uploaded into Youtube, which equals over 25 hours of videos
- 320 new twitter accounts are made
In one hour
- 10.5 million pictures uploaded to Facebook
-780,000 apps being downloaded on iPhone
- 4,200 new domains are resgistered
In one day
- 2.4 billion Internet users, which equals to 1/3 of the population of the world
- 98 years worth of Youtube videos uploaded
- 172 million people visit Facebook
- the world spends 133,333 years online

Main Concepts

• Time - In a short amount of time, so much changes in the Internet and is constantly changing every second.
• Value - So many people spend so much time on the Internet and time looses it's value from being constantly wasted in the Internet.
• Statistics - Statistics helps us look from a bigger point of view than just as a user.

Advantages

• Reading this article will help us learn the value of time. We would often waste our days on the Internet. By seeing the stats, we reflect on ourselves as one of the billion users posting on Facebook, or wasting time on Youtube.
• The article amuses it's readers because i is easy to read (Infographic).

Disadvantages

• This shows that people spend too much time on the Internet.

Questions

1. Do we really need to spend that much time on the Internet? Is the time we spend just for working or for playing too? If for playing, why don't we spend some time offline.
2. Does the Internet makes us value our time lesser, by spending and wasting away countless hours?

Sources: Bennett, Shea. "What Happens On The Internet Every Second, Minute, Hour And Day? [INFOGRAPHIC]." - AllTwitter. Mediabistro, 28 Feb. 2013. Web. 18 Mar. 2013.