From The Future Buzz:

As our digital and physical lives blur further, the internet has become the information hub where people spend a majority of their time learning, playing and communicating with others globally.

Sometimes it is easy to lose sight of just how staggering the numbers are of people collaborating, researching, and interacting on the web.

I thought it might be fun to take a step back and look at some interesting/amazing social media, Web 2.0, crowdsourcing and internet statistics. I tried to find stats that are the most up-to-date as possible at the time of publishing this post.

The numbers presented below should be a close representation of today’s numbers (please correct me in the comments if you find more recent numbers somewhere and I’ll update).

Let’s break them down by section:

Listropolis’ Take:

I’m a number junkie, and a social media junkie, so this is almost like geek porn for me. It’s not going to help you live any better, but it’s an awesome list showing you the power of social media.

See the List

Related Reading:

The Social Media Marketing Book

The Penguin Book of Curious and Interesting Numbers: Revised Edition (Penguin Press Science)

Social Media Marketing: Strategies for Engaging in Facebook, Twitter & Other Social Media