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=Social Media= Social media includes the various online technology tools that enable people to communicate easily via the internet to share information and resources. Social media can include **text, audio, video, images, podcasts, music** and **other multimedia communications**.

It is easy to confuse social media with [|social news] because we often refer to members of the news as "the media." Adding to the confusion is the fact that a social news site is also a social media site because it falls into that broader category.

**20 Social Media Statistics**
These figures reveal the huge black hole that our time disappears into when we visit Facebook, Twitter or YouTube or other social media sites.
 * 1) One in every nine people on Earth is on Facebook ( This number is calculated by dividing the planets 6.94 billion people by Facebook’s 750 million users)
 * 2) People spend 700 billion minutes per month on Facebook
 * 3) Each Facebook user spends on average 15 hours and 33 minutes a month on the site
 * 4) More than 250 million people access Facebook through their mobile devices
 * 5) More than 2.5 million websites have integrated with Facebook
 * 6) 30 billion pieces of content is shared on Facebook each month
 * 7) 300,000 users helped translate Facebook into 70 languages
 * 8) People on Facebook install 20 million “Apps” every day
 * 9) YouTube has 490 million unique users who visit every month (as of February 2011)
 * 10) YouTube generates 92 billion page views per month (These YouTube stats don’t include videos viewed on phones and embedded in websites)
 * 11) Users on YouTube spend a total of 2.9 billion hours per month (326,294 years)
 * 12) Wikipedia hosts 17 million articles
 * 13) Wikipedia authors total over 91,000 contributors
 * 14) People upload 3,000 images to Flickr (the photo sharing social media site) every minute
 * 15) Flickr hosts over 5 billion images
 * 16) 190 million average Tweets per day occur on Twitter (May 2011)
 * 17) Twitter is handling 1.6 billion queries per day
 * 18) Twitter is adding nearly 500,000 users a day
 * 19) Google+ has more than 25 million users
 * 20) Google+ was the fastest social network to reach 10 million users at 16 days (Twitter took 780 days and Facebook 852 days)


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