Social media has become a dominant online activity, with over 1.83 billion hours spent on social networks and blogs each day, accounting for 22% of total time online. Key metrics include that 500 million people are active Facebook users, with 700,000 new users added daily. Twitter receives 800 million search queries per day and has 85 million tweets sent daily. YouTube serves over 2 billion videos each day. Social media has transformed how information spreads and has become a major force for influencing opinions, as demonstrated by Barack Obama's successful use of platforms like YouTube and Facebook to engage millions of supporters in his presidential campaign.

1. Social media It’s about making you stand out from the crowd

2. Officially, social media is “an umbrella term that defines the various activities that integrate technology, social interaction, and the construction of words, pictures, videos, and audio.” http://www.wikipedia.org

3. It’s a fancy way of describing the conversations people are having online

4. Why should I care?

5. Because Social Media is a force to be reckoned with

6. Because Social Media is like word of mouth on steroids

7. Because 90% of all internet users regularly interact with some form of Social Media

8. Because Social Media has overtaken porn as the number 1 activity on the internet

9. Because 1 in 8 of all couples married in the US last year met via Social Media

10. Because in total about 1.83 billion man hours are spent per day on Social Networks and Blog Sites by all the internet surfers of the world combined This is about 22% of all time spent online everyday

11. 500 Million active users 700,000 new users added per day

12. In 2010 Facebook accounted for 25% of all page views in the US Because if it was a country, Facebook would be the 3rd largest in the world !

13. The average Facebook user - Spends 55 minutes a day on Facebook Logs on multiple times a day Has 190 friends Creates 90 pieces of content each month

14. 190 million users 300,000 joining every day

15. Twitter’s search engine receives 800 million search queries per day 85 million Tweets per day Twitter’s 10 billionth Tweet was posted in March 2010 Stats recorded August 2010

16. 2+ Billion videos viewed every day

17. You would have to live for around 1000 years to watch all the videos currently on YouTube

19. A new member joins every second 85 million members in over 200 countries Executives from all Fortune 500 companies are on LinkedIn 12 million unique visitors every day

20. Wikipedia has 14 million articles making it the largest encyclopedia of all time.Studies have shown it to be more accurate than Encyclopedia Britannica.

21. Years to reach 50 million users... Radio – 38 Years

22. Years to reach 50 million users... Television - 13 Years

23. Years to reach 50 million users... Internet – 4 Years

24. Years to reach 50 million users... iTunes – 3 Years

25. Years to reach 50 million users... Facebook added 100 million users in less than 9 months

26. Years to reach 50 million users... iPhone application downloads hit 1 billion in 9 months

27. Blogs The word blog is irrelevant. What's important is that it is now common, and will soon be expected, that every intelligent person (and quite a few unintelligent ones) will have a media platform where they share what they care about with the world.” Seth Godin, Author

28. 200,000,000 Blogs 77% of internet users read blogs On average bloggers use 5 different Social Media sites to drive traffic to their blog

29. How can Social Media influence?

30. 5,000,000 The number of active Barack Obama supporters across 15 social networks

31. $6,500,000 The amount of money 3 million online voters contributed to the 2008 Obama campaign

32. 14,200,000 The number of views Obama’s famous “Yes we can” video got on YouTube

33. Would he have won without it? We’ll never know, but it sure helped !

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