Interesting facts of technology #1

1) Over 3.8 billion people use the internet today, which is 40% of the world’s population.

2) 8 billion devices will be connected to the internet by 2021.

3) More than 570 new websites are created every minute.

4) There are over 3.5 billion searches per day on Google.

5) Every minute 24 hours of video is uploaded to YouTube. More video content is uploaded to YouTube in a 60-day period than the three major U.S. television networks created in 60 years.

6) By 2021, video will account for about 80% of all internet traffic.

7) 340,000 tweets are sent per minute.

8) 500 million tweets are sent per day.

9) Facebook has more than 2 billion active users who have an average of 155 friends.

10) There are more than 300 million photos uploaded to Facebook every day, 800 million likes per day, and 175 million love reactions per day.

11) Your online reputation and privacy worst enemies are WhatsApp, Snapchat, Instagram, Google, Facebook, and Twitter.

12) Facebook is a divorce lawyers best friend. In fact, 1 in 7 divorces are blamed on Facebook.

13) Over 4.2 billion data records were stolen in 2016

14) More than 88 million people will be born this year. They will be born into a data and algorithm economy.

15) We are in the age of Big Data. 16 zettabytes (16×1021) of unique new data created worldwide in 2016.

16) 99% of the world’s data has been created in the last couple years.

17) 250 million hours of TV shows and movies are watched daily via Netflix.

18) More than 56 million hours of music is streamed daily.

19) We spend more than 33 million hours playing the game League of Legends.

20)The amount of technical information is doubling every 2 years. For students starting a 4-year technical or college degree, this means ½ of what they learn in their first year of study will be outdated by their 3rd year of study.