Texting has surpassed other forms of communication for teens aged 12 to 17. Real-time ad bidding is projected to account for 8% of digital ad spending in 2011. At $8.5 million, Facebook's purchase of the domain name FB.com from the American Farm Bureau Federation was one of the top 10 largest domain sales ever. Nearly half of 25- to 29-year-olds in the US live in wireless-only households without a landline.

1. TEXTING
“has surpassed email,
phone and face-to-face conversation
as the main communication vehicle
for twelve- to seventeen-year-olds.”
source: mashable

2. REAL-TIME AD BIDDING
is expected to make up 8%
of all digital ad spending in 2011.
source: iab smartbrief

3. At an estimated $8.5 million,
Facebook’s purchase of FB.com
from the American Farm Bureau Federation is one of the
10 biggest domain sales in history
source: namemon

4. Google processes more than
20,000 terabytes
of user data every day.
source: techcrunch

5. Facebook bought Friendster’s
entire portfolio of social networking patents
for $40 million in 2010.
source: gigaom

6. NEARLY HALF
of 25- to 29-year-old US adults
live in a wireless-only
(no landline) household.
source: national center for health statistics

7. “About 70 percent
of the Facebook userbase
resides outside the USA.”
source: onlineschools.org

8. 90 percent of American adults
have a cell phone in their household.
source: pewinternet

9. “Every minute, 35 hours of video
are being uploaded to YouTube.”
source: focus.com

10. Despite Facebook’s Terms of Service
restricting use to individuals 13 or older,
more than 5 million kids under 11
are reported to use the site.
source: consumer reports

11. More than 750 million photos
were posted on Facebook
last New Year’s Eve weekend.
source: pixable