We all spend so much time on the internet each day. Whether with our phones, laptops or tablets, our lives seem to revolve so much around countless things on the internet. Imagine how life would be if the satellites in space had issues and Google crashed, Facebook got hacked, Twitter was shutdown, Instagram went bankrupt, BBM caught a virus……. Sigh the list is endless….that would be the end of the world I guess. Anyways, here are some fun facts about the internet
- More than one million domain names are registered every month.
- Even after you are signed out, Facebook keeps records of all other sites you visit.
- The average person blinks seven times a minute when they use a computer, that’s less than the normal rate of twenty blinks per minute.
- If you can hack Facebook’s website, Facebook would pay you at least 500 dollars. As such, 600,000 hacking attempts are made to Facebook accounts every day.
- A twitterer with a million or more followers is called a “twillionaire”.
- Twitter is now worth more than 11 billion dollars.
- Al Pacino was the first “face” on Facebook.
- Every day, 60 billion emails are sent daily, 97% of these mails are spam.
- In 2012, approximately 17 billion devices where connected to the internet.
- Facebook’s brand color is blue because Mark Zuckerberg suffers from red-green color blindness.
- More than 4 billion cell phones are used in the world today.
- Since 2008, more video games than movie DVDs have been sold.
- 340 million tweets are sent every day.
- Computer programming is currently one of the fastest growing co occupations in the world.
- There are 6.8 billion people on the planet and 4 billion of them use a mobile phone. Only 3.5 billion of them use a toothbrush.
- Every day, about 3 million cell phones are sold.
- In 2012, Twitter had more than 200 million active users.
- People have been murdered for unfriending someone on Facebook.
- About 30 million of the users on Facebook have died.
- Anyone resident in China does not have access to Facebook or Twitter. In 2009, Facebook and Twitter were blocked in China.
- The “Like” button on Facebook was originally going to be called “Awesome”.
If you have got some others, feel free to share in the comment section below.