6 Social Media Facts That Will Surprise You
So without further ado, here are 6 Social media facts that will knock your socks off:
● 3,500,000 active users
We all know Facebook, WhatsApp, Twitter, and other social media platforms. But SixDegrees.com was the first true social media website. It was created by Andrew Weinreich in 1997. On SixDegrees, a user could set up a profile page, make connections, and message within the network. It lasted from 1997 to 2001. At its peak, it had 3,500,000 active registered users.
● The only country which is still out of social media’s reach. Do you know which one?
North Korea, you guessed it.
It is the only country in the whole wide world that does not have any form of social media.
The country has some form of intranet, but the administration has strict control over the overall mass media. And even if, by some miracle, a user posts something from the country, it will go through the authorities, which will ultimately delete it.
I wonder how they live without posting a picture of their food every day?
● Do you know how much time people spend on the internet?
As of 2019, the average daily social media usage of internet users worldwide amounted to just a little shy of two and half hours per day. If added up, it results in 840 hours per year, which is almost 10% of an entire year.
It was projected that an average adult would spend almost six years and eight months of their life on social media.
Now, that’s a big commitment.
In the Philippines, this number is even higher. smm panel People there, on average, spend three hours and 53 minutes on social media each day, the highest in the world.
If we talk about specific age groups, 16 to 24 years old are racing far ahead than any other group by spending an average of three hours and 1 minute daily on social media.
● In 2020, over 3.6 billion people used social media.
926.8 billion of those were Chinese internet users and Indians standing close to 350 million current social media users.
According to a recent forecast, by 2025, there will be more than 4.41 billion users worldwide.
● 16 Billion apps
Facebook, Facebook Messenger, WhatsApp, and Instagram collectively boast a perplexing 16 billion app downloads, given only 6 billion people use a smartphone, this is a staggering number. It roughly means that, on average, a person uses more than two social media apps or platforms.
Furthermore, all the apps as mentioned earlier belong to a single giant, Facebook, and there are tons of other players. Just imagine how mind-numbingly tedious a job it is to figure out how many social media apps are out there.
● 1222.5 billion dollars
Nope, that’s not the GDP of a country. That’s the market capitalization of Just six major social media companies around the world. And this number is growing at a swift pace every year. If you want to have a picture in your mind of just how big this number is, multiply the GDP of Chile, which is 245.4 billion dollars, by 5. The resulting number will be roughly equal to the market capitalization of the behemoth social media companies.
A whopping number indeed!
At last, the facts, as mentioned earlier, are just the tip of a gigantic iceberg. Click to read more such mind-boggling facts. There’s a lot more to it which we might never know. But we can all agree this is the age of social media, and it is here to stay.
