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Mind-Blowing Statistics

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The amount of data that is generated every day is mind-boggling. There was an article on Forbes by Bernard Marr that blew my mind. Here are some excerpts. For the full article, go to Link

There are 2.5 quintillion bytes of data created each day. Over the last two years alone 90 percent of the data in the world was generated.

On average, Google now processes more than 40,000 searches EVERY second (3.5 billion searches per day)!

Every minute of the day:

Snapchat users share 527,760 photos

More than 120 professionals join LinkedIn

Users watch 4,146,600 YouTube videos

456,000 tweets are sent on Twitter

Instagram users post 46,740 photos

With 2 billion active users Facebook is still the largest social media platform.

Here are some more intriguing Facebook statistics:

1.5 billion people are active on Facebook daily

Europe has more…