Technology is Growing

Where were we 10 years ago with technology? Very far behind where we are today! Technology has taken over our lives and made them more complex but easier as well. The children of this time period are very comfortable with technology and use it every day. Everywhere we turn, technology is right there. But the question is, “How far have we really come?” Well, the statistics are astonishing! The following is what I found. • There were 100,000,000 new Twitter accounts opened in 2010 • 294 billion emails are sent daily • 20 million Facebook apps are downloaded each day • 2 billion videos are watched daily on YouTube • Only 4% of Americans do not have television service in their home • More than 70% of 4 year olds in the United States have used a computer • 21 year olds have played about 10,000 hours of video games • The number of text messages sent and received exceeds the population of the planet • 2.7 billion Google searches are performed each month • 10 million emails have been sent in the past 5 seconds These statistics make me feel much smaller and make me feel part of a world that is much larger than anything I can imagine. We are not going to escape technology so we must learn to embrace it. It may not always be easy, but we have no choice. Rosales, L. (2011). Internet, technology statistics and infographics. AGBeat. Retrieved from http://agbeat.com/real-estate-coaching-tutorials/tech/internet-technology-statistics-and-infographics/ Iannorris1954. (2010). Technology and the latest statistics. Retrieved from http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CvZoDRGHnxk.