The Monthly Top Stats — Feb 2016
Every month we put out a blog post with interesting stats we have picked up around the web to do with family, how they social network, and how households are effected.
Mothers with children under the age of five are the most active on social media.
Of the 7.2 billion people on earth 1.7 billion use social networks from a mobile device.
3 billion have Internet access; 2.1 billion are active on social media; and 1.7 billion use social networks from a mobile device. Read more
Social media use isn’t quite universal — but it’s getting close.
70% of the U.S. population now has at least one social networking profile; more than half use two or more social networks. The number of worldwide social media users is projected to grow from 2.1 billion last year to 2.5 billion by 2018. Read more
The number of smartphone users worldwide will surpass 2 billion in 2016.
According to new figures from eMarketer — after nearly getting there in 2015. Next year, there will be over 1.91 billion smartphone users across the globe, a figure that will increase another 12.6% to near 2.16 billion in 2016. Read more
Billions of times per day, consumers turn to Google for I want-to-know, I want-to-go, I want-to-do, and I want-to-buy moments.
At these times, consumers are increasingly picking up their smartphones for answers. In fact, more Google searches take place on mobile devices than on computers in 10 countries including the US and Japan. Read more
“shopping” and “excited” are the words most used by women aged 13–65 on Facebook.
By comparison, the words most frequently typed by men were various four-letter words beginning with “f”, plus “football” and “xBox.” Read more
Originally published at www.kin2kin.com.
