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In recent months, everyone has been a-buzz about how Facebook and texting are replacing email for the next online generation and how Facebook’s on its way to replacing Google as the most valuable and richest Internet company.
And perhaps both those things are true.
But it’s time for a bit of perspective.
Earlier, we published a chart of many of the amazing things that happen every 60 seconds on the Internet, including:
- 13,000 hours of Pandora music is listened to
- 20,000 new posts are posted on Tumblr
- 25 hours-worth of videos are uploaded to YouTube
- 370,000+ minutes of voice calls are made on Skype
- And so on…
And included in that list were three statistics that put the rise of Facebook, the plateauing of Google, and the death of email in context.
Every minute, according to this chart, there are 695,000 status updates on Facebook. 695,000!
That’s a big number.
But it’s the same as the number of searches that are conducted online every minute. And Google makes a lot more money per search than Facebook makes per status update.
And as for email…
In the same 60 seconds in which 695,000 Facebook status updates are posted, 168 million emails are sent.
That’s 240 times as many.
There’s presumably a lot of SPAM in that email number.
But it seems safe to say the death of email is not exactly imminent.
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