If I haven't been able to convince you yet of where our industry, the worlds technology and whether you should be apart of it or not check out these numbers!

Do you know how many blogs are on the world wide web?

Here are some facts that will help you better understand  how technology has infiltrated our lives.

Google Search Statistics:

• 2,000,000,000 (two billion) - very rough number of Google searches daily
• 24,400 - number of people employed by Google (December, 2008)
• 68,000,000 - the average number of times people Googled the word Google each month for the last year (source: keyword tool)

Wikipedia Statistics:

• 2,695,205 - the number of articles in English on Wikipedia
• 684,000,000 - the number of visitors to Wikipedia in the last year
• 75,000 - the number of active contributors to Wikipedia

YouTube Statistics:

• 70,000,000 - number of total videos on YouTube (March 2008)
• 200,000 - number of video publishers on YouTube (March 2008)
• 112,486,327 - number of views the most viewed video on YouTube has (January, 2009)

• 133,000,000 - number of blogs indexed by Technorati since 2002
• 346,000,000 - number of people globally who read blogs (comScore March 2008)
• 77% - percentage of active Internet users who read blogs

Search Engine Statistics:

• 75% -  percentage of Americans use search engines on a regular basis
• 56% -  percentage of Americans use Search Engines every day
• 40% -  percentage of all search engine searches are for local businesses and services
• 54% -  percentage of Americans regularly use the internet instead of the phone book to find local services
• 92% -  percentage of all local searches will eventually convert into a sale
• 85% -  percentage of searchers don't click on paid links.
• 63% -  percentage of links that are naturally displayed at the top of search engines get clicks

Twitter Statistics:

• 1,111,991,000 - number of Tweets to date
• 3,000,000 - number of Tweets/day (March 2008 from TechCrunch)

Facebook:

• 140 - number of new applications added per day
• 200,000,000 - number of active users
• 100 - number of friends the average user has
• 52,000 - number of applications currently available on

Now that you know how many users the virtual world is attracting - what are you going to do about it??

Thanks to Adam Singer for sharing these statistics and other great information about social networking!

You can read Adam's blog at:  http://thefuturebuzz.com