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Time spent on free time activities

21 October 2015 - If life seems more rushed than ever, you might be surprised to learn that we actually have more leisure time than we did 40 years ago, and quite a bit more. So why does it feel like we have so much less? It might be because we waste half of all our leisure time watching television. Globally, people devote more than 2.5 hours a day to viewing television programs despite the diversity of leisure options.  How people spend their leisure time has significantly changed and is evident even in the short period from 2003-2015 captured in the visualizations below. Men and women spend no more than one hour a day on sport activities, with men spending significantly more time on sports. Uniformly, people are spending less time reading. And as for the classic carefree afternoon teas or nights out with friends, people are spending slightly less time socializing. Discover more information on how people spend their free time through the source:  Time spent on free time activities, by sex.

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World Leaders in Social Networks //knoema.es/skajmcb/world-leaders-in-social-networks 2020-06-26T10:02:31Z Alex Kulikov knoema.es://knoema.es/user/1847910
World Leaders in Social Networks

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Global Growth of the Internet and Facebook //knoema.es/pjrbcrc/global-growth-of-the-internet-and-facebook 2019-04-23T14:33:38Z Balaji S knoema.es://knoema.es/user/1000220
Global Growth of the Internet and Facebook

           The Internet is defined as the worldwide interconnection of individual networks operated by government, industry, academia, and private parties. Originally the Internet served to interconnect laboratories engaged in government research. Since 1994 it has expanded to serve billions of users and a multitude of purposes in all parts of the world.            The Internet is changing all the time. Two things, in our opinion, were disruptive and directive in terms of the evolution of the Internet: the social web and mobile technology. These two innovations changed the way people use the Internet. In the social web, people found a new way to communicate. Since its creation in 2004, Facebook has grown into a worldwide network of more than 1 billion subscribers.Mobile technology has enabled Internet access at scale globally and driven new markets for supporting technology and market services globally.

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Top Social Media Sites, 2008-2016 //knoema.es/myqyeue/top-social-media-sites-2008-2016 2016-05-25T11:02:00Z Alex Kulikov knoema.es://knoema.es/user/1847910
Top Social Media Sites, 2008-2016

Currently in the United States 78 percent of the total population aged 12+ uses social media sites, which corresponds to about 165 million Americans. Facebook is the most visited social media site, accounting for 43 percent of all US visits. The second most popular social media site is the global video-sharing service YouTube with 22 percent of visits. Together YouTube and Facebook dominate two thirds of the American social media traffic. Reddit, Twitter and Instagram are the next most popular with 5.5, 4.9 and 1.7 percent of visits, respectively. Launched in February 2004 by Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook quickly gained popularity and transformed from a humble university network to what is now a global social media giant with more than 1.6 billion active users. In June 2009, five years after Facebook launched, it replaced MySpace as the most visited social media platform in the United States. Since then, MySpace has continuously lost market share: in March 2010, YouTube moved up to number two; in May 2011, Twitter and Yahoo! Answers surpassed it; and by July 2012 MySpace fell out of the top-10 with only 0.39 percent of visits. One of the main reasons for MySpace's decline was its aggressive monetization strategy that ran counter to user experience. Heavily advertised site space made it difficult to use, inflexible, and slow while rival Facebook offered users a clean and light site design. Yet, instead of resetting itself to improve its social-networking environment, in-house built MySpace applications and features remained shallow and often buggy unlike Facebook applications created mostly by outside developers. MySpace also stuck to a business model targeted to the music and entertainment audience. These factors contributed to a sharp audience decline and a corresponding outflow of advertisers no longer willing to commit to long-term deals with the site. While MySpace entered its decline, Facebook rapidly gained market share, increasing from 32 percent of all US visits in June 2009 to 65 percent in September 2011, an all-time high record. Since then the site's market share has gradually declined. Unlike the initial period of the MySpace decine, however, no serious competitors exist yet to displace Facebook. Even Twitter, the closest to Facebook by brand awareness, has lost 0.2 percent of visits since the start of the year giving way to Reddit.

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Need for Internet Speed: Average and Peak Connection Speeds across Countries //knoema.es/ntjuqec/need-for-internet-speed-average-and-peak-connection-speeds-across-countries 2015-10-30T18:45:04Z Alex Kulikov knoema.es://knoema.es/user/1847910
Need for Internet Speed: Average and Peak Connection Speeds across Countries

In today's Viz of the Day we present a unique interactive visualization designed on the basis of Akamai Q2 2015 State of the Internet Report, which shows the main trends in the average and peak internet connection speeds across various countries during the 5-year period from Q1 2010 to Q2 2015.  The dashboard clearly shows that the average connection speed has increased significantly during the previous five years in all countries, reaching a world average of 5.1 megabits per second (Mbps) in Q2 2015. South Korea leads the ranking with average connection speed of 23.1 Mbps. That is almost 36 percent higher than in Hong Kong, which is ranked second, and more than twice as high as the United States. Peak connection speed around the world also demonstrated considerable growth. Singapore is ranked first by Peak Connection Speed at 108.3 Mbps, which is 17.3 percent higher than in the previous quarter and almost 88 percent higher compared to Q1 2014 data.   

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What made Facebook Like WhatsApp? //knoema.es/fcuncje/what-made-facebook-like-whatsapp 2015-09-21T05:30:00Z Alex Kulikov knoema.es://knoema.es/user/1847910
What made Facebook  Like WhatsApp?

Facebook announced on 19th Feb 2014 the purchase of Whatsapp in a $19 Billion Deal. It means $42 per WhatsApp user. WhatsApp was founded by two guys Brain Acton and Jam Koum in 2008, who spent combined 20 years doing geeky stuff at Yahoo! Inc. before starting WhatsApp. Founded in the heart of Silicon Valley, WhatsApp reportedly earned total revenues of about 20 million last year. With only 55 employees, WhatsApp’s $19-billion valuation could, in an alternate universe where each employee was given an equal share, fetch $350 million per employee. This is nearly five times what employees of Instagram would have got when that company was bought out for $1 billion in 2012. New Daily Record: 10B+ messages sent (inbound) and 17B+ messages rececived (outbound) by our users= 27 Billion messages handled in just 24 hours! Source: What made facebook like whatsApp, WhatsApp Extraordinary Growth in Users  

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WhatsApp Statistics //knoema.es/ueaizjd/whatsapp-statistics 2014-12-08T05:12:08Z Alex Kulikov knoema.es://knoema.es/user/1847910
WhatsApp Statistics

                     WhatsApp is a cross-platform instant messaging service for smartphones that relies on the internet for the transmission of messages. As of April 2014, the mobile messenger has more than 500 million monthly active users worldwide and ranks as one of the most popular mobile social apps globally. Based on a low-cost subscription model, WhatsApp is a cheap alternative to carrier-billed text messaging via SMS, especially for international or group messaging. The mobile messaging app enables users to share text, image and video messages – the service handles more than 600 million photo and 64 billion overall messages every day. In the United States, the daily engagement rate among Android WhatsApp users was 36 percent.  Recent market data indicates that the majority of WhatsApp users in the United States are aged between 25 and 34 years and that the app enjoys a strong U.S. Hispanic user base.  Source : Statistics and facts about WhatsApp

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Top 10 Countries using Facebook //knoema.es/gaubefg/top-10-countries-using-facebook 2012-10-05T14:17:50Z Prashanth T.P knoema.es://knoema.es/user/1025940
Top 10 Countries using Facebook

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