I don't watch the news, I don't watch any sport games, almost I don't watch anything on TV. My whole information source is internet, if I hear something really important I fire up my favorite browser and look at one of the famous global news site. I literally remove all the existing media from my life and I am quite happy with it, and you might be doing the same already.
Why ? TV is one way. You cannot select what you want to watch if only zapping through different channels, while on internet you can choose whatever you want to with lots of opinions as well. TV channels are dead ( Where Google TV will tune in )
Facebook has half a billion users, Twitter 100 millions, Google who knows how many people uses ( A billion ? )
Here are some stats ;
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WORLD INTERNET USAGE AND POPULATION STATISTICS
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World Regions
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Population
( 2010 Est.)
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Internet Users
Dec. 31, 2000
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Internet Users
Latest Data
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Penetration
(% Population)
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Growth
2000-2010
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Users %
of Table
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Africa
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1,013,779,050
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4,514,400
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110,931,700
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10.9 %
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2,357.3 %
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5.6 %
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Asia
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3,834,792,852
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114,304,000
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825,094,396
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21.5 %
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621.8 %
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42.0 %
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Europe
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813,319,511
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105,096,093
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475,069,448
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58.4 %
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352.0 %
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24.2 %
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Middle East
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212,336,924
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3,284,800
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63,240,946
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29.8 %
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1,825.3 %
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3.2 %
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North America
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344,124,450
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108,096,800
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266,224,500
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77.4 %
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146.3 %
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13.5 %
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Latin America/Caribbean
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592,556,972
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18,068,919
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204,689,836
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34.5 %
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1,032.8 %
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10.4 %
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Oceania / Australia
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34,700,201
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7,620,480
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21,263,990
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61.3 %
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179.0 %
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1.1 %
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WORLD TOTAL
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6,845,609,960
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360,985,492
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1,966,514,816
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28.7 %
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444.8 %
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100.0 %
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NOTES: (1) Internet Usage and World Population Statistics are for June 30, 2010. (2) CLICK on each world region name for detailed regional usage information. Copyright © 2000 - 2010, Miniwatts Marketing Group. All rights reserved worldwide.
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Frankly, the growth rate of internet and the time it takes in our life is skyrocketing each year. 2 billion internet users, and within the next 10 years who is what will the numbers be. I can easily say that we are going to depend on internet and social media platforms to share our experience in this life.
Lets look at the situation of todays enterprises.
United Airlines has shaken by a single artist ( Dave Carrol ) , whose guitar was damaged during the flight. He made a song about the airline ( United breaks guitar ) and the damage he did by himself is astonishing. 10 Millions views so far.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5YGc4zOqozo
Here is the whole story: http://travel.latimes.com/daily-deal-blog/index.php/smashed-guitar-youtu-4850/
Here is the wikipedia page : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Breaks_Guitars :)
Lesson 1: Don't piss off the customers in internet age or be ready to pay back with millions of dollars
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