Internet trends

*:* Internet trends *:*

The internet is very important to us. Because now we live in a smart world / technological world. There is no question. The mobile Internet has changed everything. Now every person has whatever mobile/fix devices which can use internet. Since 1995, the number of Internet users has risen from 35 million in 1995 to more than 3.0 billion today. The total number of Internet users at 3 billion, far less than half of world population (7.4 billion), with growth at a flat 9%. Meanwhile, global smartphone user growth was +21%, down from +31% a year ago. Now we can buy goods staying at home and we have many choises.

Messaging apps like Facebook Messenger, Facebook-owned WhatsApp, WeChat, and Snapchat have seen more consistent, sustained, and significant growth than social networks in the past few years. Rather than socialize on public networks like Facebook or Twitter, people seem to be more comfortable using private apps like Messenger and WhatsApp.

According to the reports we can see followings,

• The global internet adoption rate was flat year-over-year at 9%, reaching 3 billion users or 42% of the world’s population
• US advertising is growing, with Google and Facebook controlling 76% of the market and rising, but advertisers still spend too much on legacy media rather than new media where the audience has shifted
• About 100% of Millennials spend more than 1000 minutes a day on Facebook
• There are 7.4 billion people in the world and about 2.5 billion smartphones.
• facebook mobile daily active users was 989 million  on average for March 2016.
• Approximately 84.2% of our daily facebook active users are outside the US and Canada