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1,000 YEARS OF HUMAN LIFE....

According to internetlivestats.com there are over 3 billion internet users in the world right now. This represents over 40% of the worlds population, think about it. Almost half the world is "connected" which means that a lot of other crazy statistics come to light.
A website call Alexa populates and stores these stats, they rank all the websites according to the individual or unique users who visit it and how many pages they visited it. Here is a screen shot of the top ten sites today.
Without a doubt google.com reigns supreme as the number one site accessed in the world. You wonder why Sergei and Larry are so rich, because everyone uses their search engine.As an I.T. guy I actually find it idiotic that people dont memorize URLs anymore. If you are like me you understand this, someone would rather google facebook then click on the top result which is usually the site then go to it. I have seen it a million times, its making us lazy. But I digress, so why is the ranking so important. Well , the company can actually see the demographic that access their website and tailor make their products for them. Case in point, blogger is a distant position 92 and from the statistics is mostly accessed by women. Below is a screen shot of the stats from google.com.



Those numbers don't exactly shock me, what shocks me is the amount of time people spend on the 3rd best site on the web, youtube.com. A company usually calculates how much time loss the have by man hours which is basically a total of the amount of time each individual would have spent performing tasks. Companies usually explain that loss in hours, how about explaining time spent in years. You see how you sit down after work and you are probably waiting for it to stop raining or for your ride to get there. What relaxes you, Im guessing a cat video. Like dear kitten.
Really funny stuff right, but did you know that if you put together the amount of time that people spent on just one you-tube channel it can be equated to over 1,000 years of human life. The channel in question is MKBH and the host usually reviews the latest in tech improvements, consumer advice on devices etc. The videos in his channel have been viewed in 2014 over 130 million times and people have spent over 548 million minutes watching them. He isn't even the highest ranked channel but people are on there. Just in case you don't believe me, here is a screen shot of the stats and the video that he says this.




So how long do you spend watching youtube videos.....

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