T E X T I N G “has surpassed email,

phone and face-to-face conversation

as the main communication vehicle for twelve- to seventeen-year-olds.”

source: mashable

REAL-TIME AD BIDDING

is expected to make up 8% of all digital ad spending in 2011.

source: iab smartbrief

At an estimated $8.5 million, Facebook’s purchase of FB.com from the American Farm Bureau Federation is one of the 10 biggest domain sales in history

source: namemon

Google processes more than

20,000 terabytes

of user data every day. source: techcrunch

Facebook bought Friendster’s entire portfolio of social networking patents

for $40 million in 2010. source: gigaom

NEARLY HALF of 25- to 29-year-old US adults

live in a wireless-only (no landline) household.

source: national center for health statistics

“About 70 percent of the Facebook userbase resides outside the USA.”

source: onlineschools.org

90 percent of American adults have a cell phone in their household.

source: pewinternet

“Every minute, 35 hours of video are being uploaded to YouTube.”

source: focus.com

Despite Facebook’s Terms of Service restricting use to individuals 13 or older, more than 5 million kids under 11

are reported to use the site.

source: consumer reports

More than 750 million photos

were posted on Facebook last New Year’s Eve weekend.

source: pixable