The Latest 27 Social Media Facts, Figures and Statistics for 2012

Infographic by- GO-Globe.com

Facebook

• 25 percent of users don't bother with any kind of privacy control.
• The average Facebook user has 130 friends.
• More than 350 million users suffer from Facebook Addiction Syndrome.
• 85 percent of women are annoyed by their friends
• Links about sex are shared 90 percent more than any other link.

Twitter

• 750 tweets per second are shared on Twitter.
• If Twitter was a country, it'd be the 12th largest in the world.

LinkedIn

• Two new members sign up to LinkedIn every second.
• LinkedIn has 161 million members in more than 200 countries and communities.
• There are more than 1 million LinkedIn groups.

Youtube

• The most watched video is "Gangnam Style" with 532+ million views.
• The average visitor spends 15 minutes per day on YouTube.

Blogging

• 3 million new blogs come online every month.
• 60 percent of bloggers are between 25 to 44 years old.
• 20 percent of bloggers have been blogging for more than six years.
• Professional bloggers maintain an average of four blogs.

Pinterest

• Pinterest drives more referral traffic than YouTube, Google+ and LinkedIn combined.
• 97 percent of the fans of Pinterest's Facebook page are women.
• Users spend an average of just fewer than 16 minutes on the site.
• The most popular age group is 25-34 year olds, accounting for 27.4 percent of the user base.

Instagram

• There are 575 likes per second.
• 25 percent of Instagram users upload more than three pictures.
• More than 5 million images are uploaded every day.

Google+

• The Google +1 button is used more than five billion times per day.
• "Student" is the number one occupation of Google+ users.
• Google+ is adding 625,000 new users every day.
• More than 2/3 of its users are male.

Taken from Go-Globe.com