Ever wonder what the rest of the world is up to on the internet?

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Let me show you.....

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I love a good infographic. They can capture so much data with one visual punch and when tastefully done, without cramming too much data in and using the right colours, they can offer great insights into an industry or anything really. The internet minute infographic is one that I search for each year, as I find it really interesting to see what the internet population of 4.88 billion people collectively get up to online at a Macro level. Ok, so sometimes writing million, billion or trillion can remove the magnitude of a number, so here is 4.88 billion written down 4,800,000,000.

Another interesting part of this infographic are the apps that have newly entered, such as TicTok this year and also apps that I haven't heard of before like Imgur.

So let's sift through some of the data here, since you've clicked onto this page, I'm going to say that one minute has passed, as you likely spent some time looking at some of the numbers on the wheel. In that one minute:

  • $1,600,000 has been spent on line.
  • 695,000 stories were shared on Instagram.
  • 197,600,000 emails were sent.
  • 2,000,000 people have swiped left or right on Tinder.
  • 200,000 have tweeted.
  • 500 hours of Youtube content has been uploaded.
  • 69,000,000 Whats App and Messenger messages were sent.
  • 9132 new connections were made on LinkedIn.
  • 21,000,000 text messages were sent.
  • 414,764 apps were downloaded from the App store and Play store.
  • 2,000,000 videos were viewed on Twitch.

What's hot, what's not?

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Something else that I like to do is to see what changes were seen between last year and this year. Here are just some of the noticeable changes:

  • Online purchases jumped from $1.1 million to $1.6 million.
  • Texts per minute jumped from 19 million to 21.1 million.
  • Messages sent on Messenger and WhatsApp went from **59 million to 69 million.
  • Tinder swipes are on the up, going from 1.6 million to 2 million.
  • Busy bees working from home mean that emails sent jumper from 190 million to 197.6 million.
  • Snaps created on Snapchat saw a increase of almost on million, going from 2.5 million to 3.4 million.
  • Twitch views per minute have risen from 1.2 million to 2 million.
  • Tiktok downloads per minute saw the biggest increase going from 1400 to 5,000 per minute.

Some more facts and figures

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  • Global population 7.87 Billion people
  • Global internet users Oct 2021 – 4.88 Billion (62%)
  • Unique Mobile phone users - 5.27 Billion (66.9%)
  • Average time spent on Internet devices daily 6 hours, 59 minutes
  • Revenue per minute Amazon 2021 - $837,330
  • Revenue per minute Apple 2021 - $691,235
  • Revenue per minute Google 2021 - $426,806
  • Revenue per minute Microsoft 2021 - $321,805
  • Revenue per minute Facebook 2021 - $201,936
  • Revenue per minute Tesla 2021 - $80,162
  • Revenue per minute Netflix 2021 $55,270

Data is the new gold

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I hear this said a lot recently about Data - "Data is the new gold" While I agree that it is indeed gold, I don't think it is new anymore. If you don't know that your data is valuable commodity at this stage, then you have been living under a rock. Those most likely to be reading this will be well aware of this, as fellow hivers who are already earning from their content here on Hive. Back on the web 2.0 hyper scaler systems though the funnel of wealth goes in one direction only, upwards towards the Facebooks, Googles and Tik Toks of this world. Here on Hive and other web 3.0 systems, the monetary gain is shared across the eco system, with content creators and even content consumers sharing a piece of the pie. Games like Splinterlands are paving the way here and now large gaming companies have woken up and are currently developing games to launch into the web 3.0 world.

This model will no longer be an outlier as time goes by and web 3.0 will slowly start taking over from web 2.0 and you can expect the hyper scalers like Facebook and Google to figure out a way to continue to get as much of the pie as possible, by introducing their own blockchain systems and potentially tokenising certain parts of their models.

That's it for today, stay safe

The images used are not my own and the were found on Pixabay (link below) and the Infographic was created by twitter user @lorilewis and @officiallychadd

https://pixabay.com/

Peace Out

Golf



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What a calculation these really hang my mind. Its true our life now become more virtual even we are earning money online so it become virtual office for many of us and I'm one of them. I'm a freelance graphic designer so I spend my day online almost always. I sleep after checking phone and wake up checking phone. Not sure about the future of it.

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Yes, I'm similar, I am on front of two laptop screens 5 days a week for work and my phone is constantly on front of me for one reason or another. I'd say an average week day would easily involve 12+ of screen time of some variety.... Not great really, I need to work on that and get back out into nature more, not always easy in rainy old Ireland in winter mind you! :)

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I am really surprised at the imgur one. I thought things like that were dying!

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Funnily enough, I've never actually used Imgur and don't actually know what it is other than a guy called Gary introducing himself with a mouthful of food and no punctuation :)

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I had never used it before until this site. Or rather Steemit in its more evil incarnation. They didn't have an image server so we had to post our images elsewhere on the web and link to them. It was quite shit!

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Indeed, data is the new gold👍

I love the explicit analysis of the internet use given here. This shows that technology is here to stay and will always thrive.

Awesome, my friend😍

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Thanks a lot man, yes technology has changed the world, and will continue to do so. We just have to be careful that it doesn't take over altogether, and time away from technology and screens is great too and should be celebrated and done more.

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Wow dude, this direction we're taking is pretty crazy.
Well, some of those numbers are pretty predictable, the good thing about it is how much the internet can change people's lives, but unfortunately it's not just for the better. I know people who barely had a roof to live in and now have a nice house and 2 or 3 cars, but I also followed a case where a young man commits suicide because of cyberbullying. It is necessary to filter our life.

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Yes, you're right, the internet is a double edged sword. It can be used for very good purposes, but equally some very dark and shameful things are facilitated by the internet on the dark web for example or even on the regular web when kids are bullied relentlessly on line. At least before technology the bullies could not follow the kids home, now they are in their pocket (mobile phone) 24/7.

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