In the latest issue of NextSpace, a publication sent out by OCLC, there are a number of mind boggling statistics concerning the use of several social networking sites.

Check these out--something to think about

10 hours of video uploaded to YouTube every minute
http://www.youtube.com/t/fact_sheet

278 photo uploads per second to Facebook
http://www.facebook.com/press/info.php?statistics

1,000,000 instant messages sent per second
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2,000,000 e-mails sent per second
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100,000,000,000 clicks per day on the Web
www.ted.com/index.php/talks/kevin_kelly_on_the_next_5_000_days_of_the_web.html

55,000,000,000,000 links between all Web pages