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A second on the internet can make tectonic changes

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Have a smartphone; will tweet and snap, and browse at own will. Smartphones in our pockets has made it so much easier for us to stay connected. Consider this: in the time you will read this one sentence, there will be more than 2,000 Skype calls made every second of it, and more than 700 artful shots will have been posted to Instagram. No, you are not the one who is slow!

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The fact is that the invisible internet community has blown up to accommodate 3.4 billion people online that accounts for a whopping 46.1 percent of the world's population. Naturally, the volume of internet access per second increases as a corollary! It is stated that an internet-savvy young adult spends an average of 27 hours online every week.

CIOL A second on the internet can make tectonic changes

According to 1-second page at Internet Live Stats every tick of the clock sees roughly 35,950 Gb of traffic changing hands, which equates to around 5,800 high-definition copies of the first Lord of The Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, which people who have watched will now, is by no means a short movie.

Globally, users perform 54,907 Google searches, 7,252 tweets, 1,25,406 YouTube video views and send 2,501,018 emails every second, statistics which are growing every second as you read, as more and more people get added to the world wide web.

Internet Live Stats puts the total number of websites online today at a little over 1 billion, while close to 1.7 billion of us have now signed up for Facebook. Even if we look at usage statistics from individual entities, the results are astonishing. Netflix says its users watch 125 million hours of shows and movies each day, so every second that passes is another 1,447 or so hours' worth of Netflix content is streamed across the internet.

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