Mar 01 2010
Remarkable Internet Stats
From Mashable.com
- There are 1.73 billion Internet users worldwide as of September 2009.
- There are 1.4 billion e-mail users worldwide, and on average we collectively send 247 billion e-mails per day. Unfortunately 200 billion of those are spam e-mails.
- As of December 2009, there are 234 million websites.
- Facebook (Facebook) gets 260 billion pageviews per month, which equals 6 million page views per minute and 37.4 trillion pageviews in a year.
Learn more by watching this video right here:
JESS3 / The State of The Internet from Jesse Thomas on Vimeo.
While there’s no doubt that the power of the Internet is unfathomable, I don’t really think that Facebook fan pages are the way to go anymore. In my opinion, most social networking websites are becoming more of an annoyance than something enjoyable. MySpace used to be huge for music. I used to go on it all the time but I never do anymore because I don’t want to look at an artist’s page littered with advertisements for other artist’s shows. MySpace music was meant to create a community between artist and fans but it has become one huge advertising free-for-all and has lost all of it’s impact. Facebook is starting to become the same way. Facebook fan pages all look the same to me and it’s annoying when I get a bunch of requests to “become a fan” of something I’m definitely not a fan of. With that said, I think we need to also harness the power of the Internet in other places for music business purposes. While some social network sites may still work (like Twitter and YouTube), others are starting to lose impact. True success will come when you think outside of the box and don’t become a follower. I didn’t mean that to sound harsh at all, but that’s just my opinion.