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Harold Mansfield
05-27-2010, 10:34 PM
http://www.onlineeducation.net/internet/social-media-count_full.jpg

Spider
05-28-2010, 11:03 AM
And what is your definition of "overload?"

Spider
05-28-2010, 11:36 AM
Here's another set of statisitics that I made up pertaining to "A day in the life of an ordinary internet user."

- Of every 100 e-mails I receive, 97 are deleted without being read.

- Of every 100 status updates on Facebook, received in the two-hour period before I log on, 60 are skipped without being read.

- Of every 100 status updates on Facebook, received during the five-hour period BEFORE the two-hour period before I log on, 100 are not read.

- All 5 million tweets on Twitter every day are not read because I don't have a Twitter account!

- Of the over 210 billion e-mails that are sent every day, 185 billion are spam, none of which are read, and 15 billion are complaints about spam, none of which are read. 10 billion are "Replies to all" and are not read by most of the recipients. The only "real" messages are the amount that is "over" the 210 billion quoted.

- Of the 900,000 new blog posts that are posted every day, 9,000 get read once, 50 get read more than once. The other 890,950 never get read by anyone but the blogger.


I am still working on my calcualtions to determine if the energy and resources wasted on all this wasted internet traffic is more or less than the energy and resources wasted on junk postal mail.

More research is also needed to find out how much employers could save by firing all the people who are playing the $13 million-dollar's worth of video games and uploading those 3 million photos, instead of working.

Harold Mansfield
05-28-2010, 05:23 PM
Here's another set of statisitics that I made up pertaining to "A day in the life of an ordinary internet user."

- Of every 100 e-mails I receive, 97 are deleted without being read.

- Of every 100 status updates on Facebook, received in the two-hour period before I log on, 60 are skipped without being read.

- Of every 100 status updates on Facebook, received during the five-hour period BEFORE the two-hour period before I log on, 100 are not read.

- All 5 million tweets on Twitter every day are not read because I don't have a Twitter account!

- Of the over 210 billion e-mails that are sent every day, 185 billion are spam, none of which are read, and 15 billion are complaints about spam, none of which are read. 10 billion are "Replies to all" and are not read by most of the recipients. The only "real" messages are the amount that is "over" the 210 billion quoted.

- Of the 900,000 new blog posts that are posted every day, 9,000 get read once, 50 get read more than once. The other 890,950 never get read by anyone but the blogger.


Just my own personal stats (experience) say that these numbers must only be true in your head.:)
Just taking emails alone, I have multiple email accounts running all day long and even I only get less than 10% spam.
Sure, some emails are annoyances like who just followed me on Twitter, or wants to be friends on My Space (yeah I still have a MY Space page) but that's only because I haven't taken the time to adjust the settings.



I am still working on my calcualtions to determine if the energy and resources wasted on all this wasted internet traffic is more or less than the energy and resources wasted on junk postal mail.

More research is also needed to find out how much employers could save by firing all the people who are playing the $13 million-dollar's worth of video games and uploading those 3 million photos, instead of working.

The thing is, it doesn't necessarily mean people are wasting time at work. It takes less than a minute to take a photo on your phone and upload it to a blog, Facebook, Flickr or what ever.

The mobile phone is part of life now. Of course some places have rules..you'll never see a black jack dealer on the floor of a casino texting while dealing, but who's to say or stop what anyone does on their lunch hour or break?

Muti tasking is also a part of life today.
It's very easy for me to be talking to a client via Skype and reply to an incoming call on my mobile phone with a quick text. or browse an incoming email.

Not too many people sit at their desk doing one thing at a time.

Dan Furman
05-29-2010, 04:13 PM
Here's another set of statisitics that I made up pertaining to "A day in the life of an ordinary internet user."

- Of every 100 e-mails I receive, 97 are deleted without being read.

- Of every 100 status updates on Facebook, received in the two-hour period before I log on, 60 are skipped without being read.

- Of every 100 status updates on Facebook, received during the five-hour period BEFORE the two-hour period before I log on, 100 are not read.

- All 5 million tweets on Twitter every day are not read because I don't have a Twitter account!

- Of the over 210 billion e-mails that are sent every day, 185 billion are spam, none of which are read, and 15 billion are complaints about spam, none of which are read. 10 billion are "Replies to all" and are not read by most of the recipients. The only "real" messages are the amount that is "over" the 210 billion quoted.

- Of the 900,000 new blog posts that are posted every day, 9,000 get read once, 50 get read more than once. The other 890,950 never get read by anyone but the blogger.


I am still working on my calcualtions to determine if the energy and resources wasted on all this wasted internet traffic is more or less than the energy and resources wasted on junk postal mail.

More research is also needed to find out how much employers could save by firing all the people who are playing the $13 million-dollar's worth of video games and uploading those 3 million photos, instead of working.

heh heh - I agree that there's a lot of "noise" out there, but really Frederick, many of these are close to "get off my lawn" territory :)

Harold Mansfield
05-29-2010, 04:22 PM
heh heh - I agree that there's a lot of "noise" out there, but really Frederick, many of these are close to "get off my lawn" territory :)

Haaaa, ha ha!:D
I was thinking the same thing.

i can't believe you actually get that much spam email. You really need to make some adjustments and clean up your account ( and get another email address to use for sign ups).

100 spam emails a day is the sign of someone who uses one email address to sign up for everything, personal and business communications and doesn't unsubscribe from anything

If I got that much spam everyday, I'd be bitter too..."damn kids and their web doo-dads"