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Facebook User Statistics 2012 [Infographic]

Monday, February 20th, 2012

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Facebook has been causing a lot of chatter amongst its users lately for multiple reasons. The social media giant recently began rolling out the controversial Facebook Timeline update to all of its users. Facebook also recently filed for its initial public offering.

Despite all the buzz and recent changes, Facebook remains the most powerful social media platform available and in order to understand just how influential the service is, all one needs to do is take a look at the user statistics of Facebook so far in 2012.

An infographic (posted below) was recently published by Infographic Labs that provides us with a great overview of Facebook’s current user base.

The infographic includes information such as how many users Facebook has, how many user per country Facebook currently has, daily averages for user activity on Facebook and financial information regarding the company.

See also: 5 Ways Facebook Will Change After Going Public

Facebook User Statistics Infographic Highlights: Facebook currently has 845 million active users. Facebook accounts for 1 out of every 5 pageviews on the internet worldwide. Facebook users share over 100 billion connections collectively. Over 50% of the population in North American uses Facebook. 250 million photos are uploaded to Facebook daily. There are 2.7 billion likes every single day on Facebook. 57% of Facebook user are female (43% male). The social media giant has 425 million mobile users. The average Facebook user spends 20 minutes on the site per visit. Mark Zuckerburg currently has a base salary of $500,000 but is worth over $17.5 billion. Facebook nearly doubled its revenue in 2011 by making over $1 billion ($600 million in 2010).

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12 Interesting Computer Facts for 2012 [Infographic]

Wednesday, February 15th, 2012

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If you’re one of my regular readers then you know that I absolutely love statistics and facts – especially when they’re related to computers or technology.

I was recently sent an infographic (posted below) by Remark that provides us with 12 fun and interesting facts about computers in our modern world.

See also: Apple iPhone Evolution [Infographic]

The facts mentioned in the infographic range in topics from the history of the computers to statistics on human use of computers.

12 Interesting Computer Facts: Over 6,000 new computer viruses are released every month. The first computer mouse, constructed in 1964, was made out of wood. The average human being blinks 20 times a minute – but only 7 times a minute when using a computer. The first electro-mechanical computer was developed in 1939. By the end of 2012 there will be 17 billion devices connected to the internet. 5 out of every 6 internet pages are porn related. Over 1 million domain names are registered every month. With it’s 800 million interent users, Facebook would be the third largest country in the World. The first hard drive was created in 1979 and could hold 5MB of data. The nVidia GeForce 6800 Ultra video card contains 222 million transistors. 20% of online viruses are released by organized crime units. The engineers who developed the IBM PC were known as “The Dirty Dozen”.

Interesting Computer Facts 2012 Infographic

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Facebook Loading Slow 2012

Tuesday, February 7th, 2012

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Update 02/07/2012: Facebook has been rolling out a new photo viewer over the last week that may be contributing to the “slowness” of Facebook lately.

Regardless, the issue seems to be less widespread for the time being – any further developments will be added to this article.

Please inform me through the comments section below if you think the Facebook slowness issue has resurfaced.

Facebook Loading Problem:

As many of you have probably noticed, there seems to be a problem with slowness on Facebook today.

The problem is evident when both using Facebook itself or accessing a site that interfaces with Facebook’s API – any site on the web with a Facebook like button.

I have noticed on multiple pages not affiliated with Facebook, that they will not finish loading and instead, continue to display a “waiting for www.facebook.com” message in the page load status indicator at the bottom of my browser.

This problem has also been verified by some of my colleagues.

It is one thing for Facebook to be slow or have issues when a user is actually using the Facebook.com domain. It is another thing when almost every page on the internet is having trouble loading completely because it is hooked up to the Facebook API.

I will be keeping an eye on this issue throughout the day and updating this post when more information is available.

If you have any details on the issue, please leave them in the comments section below.

It would be great to hear how widespread and severe the Facebook loading issue is.

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2012 Digital Divide Statistics [Infographic]

Monday, February 6th, 2012

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As we advance further into the 21st century, our use of technology increases at a nearly exponential rate.

Due to the technological explosion, it is also important to take a look at the availability of internet use in the United States and throughout the World as a whole.

For many of us, it may be hard to believe that not everyone has access to an internet-ready computer every day.

In order to help us out with this vision, Online IT Degree recently published an infographic (posted below) containing statistics in relation to the worldwide internet and digital divide in 2012.

After reviewing the infographic it may be more evident that many people within the world have limited or no internet access at all.

See Also: 2012 Smartphone Usage Statistics

Those who do not have access to high-speed internet tend to have less opportunities for higher education, lower income levels and will have trouble competing with those who do have access to high speed internet in today's global economy.

2012 Digital Divide Infographic Highlights: The Internet is responsible for 21% of economic growth in developed nations. Over 6,000,000 students in the US are taking online classes. 80% of teachers in the US feel that e-learning increases the quality of education. 100,000,000 houses in the US still lack high-speed internet access. Almost half of the poorest households in the US do not own a computer. Only 4% of the riches households in the US do not own a computer. Minorities in the US have significantly lower rates of internet access than whites. Rural households are 2 times more likely to have dial-up internet than urban households. The United States is ranked 12th in terms of internet access penetration worldwide. The United States is ranked 14th in terms of broadband internet penetration worldwide. 96% of Americans have 2 or fewer internet service provider (ISP) choices (lack of competition). Emerging technologies are costing Americans a lot more money than citizens of other developed nations. The FCC has launched a "National Broadband Plan" to help increase interent penetration in the United States.

2012 Digital Divide Statistics Infographic

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