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HOW AMERICANS CONSUMED THEIR BANDWIDTH:

Americans consumed 3.6 Zettabytes (see Glossary, Bytes) of Information in 2008, broken down as follows:

DATA:  University of California, San Diego Report Published 12/9/2009

According to comScore, worldwide internet searches increased 41% during the month of July 2009 over the previous year, reaching 113 billion searches (up from 80 billion).  Google accounts for about two-thirds of the searches, in increase of 58% year over year.  Regionally, Europe has the highest number of searches  (32.1), with Latin America showing the highest number of searches per searcher (130.4).  North America accounts for 22.1% of searches and shows an average of 110.6 searches per searcher.

Percentage of ALL MOTHERS IN THE US who are on MySpace

Percentage of all internet minutes spent on MySpace.

Percentage of MySpace users over the age of 35.

Interestingly, the total time on Facebook increased by nearly 700% year over year in 2008, according to Neilson, rising to 13.9 billion minutes in April, 2008.  Neilson also notes that social networking sites can quickly fall from favor, though, and that much of Facebook’s gains came at MySpace’s expense.  By 2010,  FaceBook boasted almost 500 million users.

BUT PRIVACY CONCERNS HAVE TAKEN THEIR TOLL...

Sixth most frequent auto-fill feature in Google autofill for “how do I” is “how do I delete my FaceBook account”

FaceBook was found to be one of the least popular private sector companies in the U.S., along with cable, power and other public utilities

DATA: American Customer Satisfaction Index 2010

Percentage of cases in which FaceBook is the primary evidence for divorce filings

DATA:  3/2011 American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers study