Who says Social Media is not here to stay?

Here are some interesting statistics about the Internet that I read the other day:

• Google has recently estimated that the internet today currently contains around 5 million terabytes of data or 5 billion gigabytes.
• Google employs over 25,000 people globally
• 247 billion emails are sent daily, of this amount 81% are Spam emails!
• 87% of mobile internet users will access the internet more than once per day
• Facebook has more than 6 million pageviews per minute and 2.5 billion images are uploaded each month.
• You Tube serves over 1 billion videos per day
• There are 50 million ‘Tweets’ performed each day, thats 600 per second!
• Google is by far Australia’s most used search engine with over 87% of the AU marketshare (data is based on total number of searches performed on all search engines in the 4 weeks leading up to the 3/07/2010)
• Top Australian websites for June 2010 were, Google, Nine MSN, You Tube, ebay and Yahoo 7
• 95% of all music downloaded from the internet is pirated
• There are over 400 million Facebook members globally, 50% of them on any given day logon to Facebook!
• 25% (100 million) of those users access Facebook on a mobile device
• Teenagers spend on average 31 hours on the internet per week, this is compared to 4 hours on homework!