10 Reasons You Need to Get Social

Here are 10 reasons why you should be utilizing social media:

1. Social networking sites have overtaken porn as the Internet’s #1 activity.

2. Twitter has seen an increase of almost 1500% over the last year.

3. Two out of three people on the PLANET visit social networks.

4. Time spent on social networks is growing at three times the overall internet rate.

5. 100 Million YouTube videos are watched every day where every minute 20 hours of video is uploaded.

6. More than 5 billion minutes are spent on Facebook each day where more than 1.5 million pieces of content are shared.

7. If Facebook were a country, it would be the 8th most populated in the world, just ahead of Japan, Russia and Nigeria.

8. If YouTube were a country, it would be the 3rd most-populated place in the world.

9. We are at 3.8 billion tweets and counting.

10. 68% of Internet users have used social networks, while only 65.1% have used email.