7 Interesting Facts about Social Media

2021-10-15

Social media is everywhere, we just cannot imagine our life without it. Each of us has average 7 personal accounts in social media and visits the pages at least one or two times a day. Yeap, we might assume, that to somehow we have already got addicted to social media.

Here we are presenting a couple of interesting facts from the fast-changing world of social networks.


1. About 3.78 billion active users

How many users are there on the social platforms? You might have guessed. According to the latest data of 2021, the number of active users social websites exceeds 3.78 billion, showing a stable growth daily.

Thus, about 48% of the population of the world uses social websites and apps.


2. Facebook is the leader - 2.32 billion active users

Undoubtedly, Facebook is a leader among all social networks; from the very first day of its launch, it continues to develop, and constantly offers various features to the users.


3. The most active in social nets are users 18-29 years old.

According to the Pew Research Center, the most active age group in the social network are user of ages 18 to 29. We face a completely different picture for the most passive users - these are people over 65 years old. Apparently, they boast some other leisure activities.


4. We spend average 2 hours 25 minutes a day in social networks.

It is not a secret that our addiction to social media  grows day by day. In the course of the day we either surf the endless Facebook or Instagram feed, or the stories, or joyfully share photos of our brunch snacks.

Thus, data provided by DataDeportal 2021, shows that a person spends about 2 hours 25 minutes on social platforms a day. Agree, not a little ...


5.  91% of users of all social networks use mobile phones.

Mobile phone is our fellow traveler everywhere, and without social apps it would not be so interesting. Undoubtedly, mobile phones are a better solution for getting socialized on the net; they are comfortable, fast, and at hand, right?


6. The most popular hashtag is the word #love - 1.835 billion

Hashtags are magic words, which are marked with the sign # and are the most useful tool to get people around one theme. If you need information about something, just write its hashtag and the search engine will do its job.


7. 3.2 billion photos and 720,000 hours of video per day are placed in social networks

Every day our pages are filled with millions of stories, posts, selfies. People share their thoughts, emotions, frustration, look of the day, in a word, all their life with the help of photos and videos in social media.


Social media is a wonderful tool to communicate, work, train and discover the world.

What social platform do you prefer?