Amazing activity in the world of social media

Extraordinary counter for social media activity around the world. 270 billion comments on Facebook in the last year. Over 1.5 million hours of video uploaded to YouTube in the last month. 16 million iPhone apps downloaded a day. About 10,000 tweets every second. Fascinating. (HT Big Bible)

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Facebook use around the world

Facebook has notched up 500 million users this week. The Guardian had data on where they all are, and a data analyst at Tableau, Ross Perez, put this into a great visualisation. Facebook500M

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Facebook infographic

An interesting infographic which was posted on mashable.com:

[Source: Online PhD Programs for MashableMashable.com]

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Do Twitter and Facebook pose a moral risk?

Daily Telegraph, 13 April 2009

Today’s fast-paced media could be making us indifferent to human suffering and should allow time for us to reflect, according to researchers.

They found that emotions linked to moral sense are slow to respond to news and events and have failed to keep up with the modern world. . [...]

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