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A day in the life of the internet

Ever wondered just how big the internet is? Of course you have.

Thankfully the folks at Online Education have pulled together some rather mindblowing stats about exactly what goes on on the internet on a day to day basis.

Think 700,000 new members adding themselves to Facebook, 210 billion sent emails and 900,000 blogger news articles, and you’re on the right track.

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Americans consume 34GB of info a day

The study considered information in three different ways: time spent watching, playing or reading; the number of words experienced; and the raw quantity of data consumed.

While gaming wins for sheer bandwidth, TV still accounts for the longest time absorbing information (about 5 hours a day) and nearly half of the 100,000 words heard by Americans every day.

Despite massive increases in computing power and bandwidth over the last decades, Americans only experience about 5 per cent more information each year than the year before, and most of that is coming from multi-tasking (such as browsing the web while watching TV).

Books, magazines and newspapers now account for just one fiftieth of one percent of all the data they consume but the game’s not over for old-fashioned communications yet. The authors estimate that just an hour and a half of face-to-face conversation contains twice as much data as all other information media combined.

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