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by Kracke

Bill Kracke  //  Bill Kracke (profile) is a graphic designer and web developer (BillKracke.com), a technology coach (I am that Geek), husband and father, hobbyist, and writer.

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Dec 9 / 4:16pm

Infographics: A Day in the Internet
via onlineeducation.net

I am not sure where the data to support these claims came from, but it is certainly food for thought.

Some seem implausible, some don't:
- 210 billion emails is like 40 for every man, woman & child on the planet. Much of the planet is without an email address. But there are spammers, so who knows.
- 900,000 new blog posts seems feasible, but the data is not unique. Just today I saw 9 different blog posts referencing the same source.
- 45 million Facebook updates vs. 5 million tweets just reminds me of the fact that more people play FarmVille than use Twitter,

Certainly a whole lot of data is being flung around. I just wonder what % of it all is unique and/or useful?

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5 comments

Dec 09, 2009
Peter said...
The point being is most of the information is not useful, what did we do when we didn't have mass information overload. We thought more, read more, were more concerned with people around us rather then information or media. When is there too much information. It is a question which needs to be answered.
Dec 10, 2009
Bill Kracke said...
@Peter - I agree that a large percentage of the information that goes out every day is junk. "Tweet: I am eating a burrito!", "Buy cheap Viagra here". For me, it's been about controlling the signal-to-noise ratio: How do I find the prayer request and 2 genuine belly laughs out of the 300 status updates I see in a day?

  On the flip side, I fall with the younger generatons ... I want to drink from the firehose. Facebook and Twitter do keep me connected to people that matter to me. Where I would not make 2 dozen phone calls to just check in with my friends, I always read and send the 30 or so messages in a day that comes in digitally. It is a pale comparison to true community and face-to-face connection, but it is far superior to the lack of information I had before.

  I rely heavily on filters to cut out the noise. If you give me a dozen status updates a day that are only "I just finished my coffee", I will bump you to the B-List and read you when I am bored. If you make me think, make me laugh, or give me something real, you stay A-list and get read twice a day.  I still get the occassional "I couldn't find my socks today" update (Heck, I still send out some updates like that), but by and large, the snowball fight invitations and such are greatly diminished. 



Dec 10, 2009
Dave_Bush said...
While I'm not exactly your "generation" I follow your same basic drill. The delete button is my friend and I filter heavily. I've even gotten very selective about the things I AM interested in.

And the advantages far outweigh the disadvantages. Otherwise, I'd just drop it all.

Dec 10, 2009
Bill Kracke said...
@Dave - Amen to the power of delete! And I think "generation" was the wrong term as it connotes age, when I was trying to describe "we who embrace the internet" -- maybe the "digital tribe" better communicates what I am trying to say. (Or not.)
Dec 12, 2009
Matthew P. S. said...
"210 billion emails is like 40 for every man, woman & child on the planet. Much of the planet is without an email address. But there are spammers, so who knows."

I get 10 or more emails a day in my inbox, and lots of those are coupons and newsletters (g4, obama, borders). And some are from friends, and those conversations can get long. And then if you add in all the spam, I think it's plausible for 210 billion.

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