The complexities of the world wide web can be likened to grains of sand on a beach, or the billions of stars in the sky.
Every day the internet produces millions upon millions of data points, from different people, networks and connections.
In fact, in just one minute the internet processes more than 204 million emails, 3.3 million Facebook posts, 4 million Google searches, and a whopping 50 billion WhatsApp messages.
These statistics, gathered by the Vocational Training Council in Hong Kong, are based on data collected in 2014.
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The Internet has been growing at a lightning-fast pace especially in these two years, with social media as a huge part.
The benefits of social media can be classified into three categories:
Community
The social media let people interact with each other in form of affinity networks, friendship groups, etc. Sharing of ideas and information is made easy with various kinds of online communities.
Collaboration
The connection of people allows pooling expertise and experience for collaboration of work. It could be as simple as information search for a commodity, or more complicated work such as encyclopedia in wiki format.
Contribution
The social media enables people’s contribution of ideas and work. The development of open source software, for example, is a result of people’s contribution online.
The dynamics of social media provide space and opportunity for creation and development in an instantaneous and engaging way. The mind-boggling data in the infographic indicate not only the popularity of individual sites or platforms, but also the stunning growth of social media.
