By SAI KIRAN

• Over 50% of the worlds population is under 30 years old

• 1.6 billion people worldwide are connected to the internet

• 96% of the millenials have joined a social network

• The mobile device will be the world’s primary connection tool in the internet in 2020

• Facebook reached 400 million users in 5 years

• Facebook tops google for weekly traffic in the US

• If facebook were a country it’d be the world’s 3rd largest

• 60 million status updates happen on facebook daily

•1 in 5 couples meet online•1in 5 divorces blamed on Facebook

•50% of the mobile internet in the UK is for Facebook

•The fastest growing segment on Facebook is 55-65 year old females

•Wikipedia has over 15 million articles

•Studies show it is as accurate as Encyclopedia Britannica

•78% of these articles are non-english

•34% of the bloggers post opinions about products & brands

• Youtube is the second largest search engine in the world

• Youtube releases 7 hours of content per minute

• Youtube has 490 million users worldwide

• While this PPT, 100+ hours of video will be uploaded to youtube

• 60 million members at professional social network LinkedIn

• A new member joins LinkedIn every second

• Kindergartens are learning on ipads not CHALKBOARDS

• Some universities have stopped distributing e-mail accounts, Instead they are distributing:

• e-raders,ipads,Tablets

• 1 out of 8 couples married in the US met via social media

• Twitter ,Facebook,Google,Youtube are not welcome in China

• Lady gaga , Justin bieber& britney spears have more twitter followers then the populations of… Sweden, Israel,Greece,Chile,North korea, Australia

• If Wikipedia were made into a book it would be 2.25 million pages longand would take you over 123 years to read

• 78% of consumers trust peer recommendations, only 14% trust advertisements

• 25% of search results for the world’s largest brands are links to user-generated content

• Only 18% of traditional TV campaigns generate a possitive ROI…

90% of people skip ads via DVR

• 80% of companies use social media for recruitment % of these using LinkedIn…..95%

• 24 out of 25 largest newspapers are experiencing record declines in circulation

• 93% of the marketers use social media for business

• We no longer search for news , the news finds us… we will no longer search for products and services they will find us via social media