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 * 50% of the population is under 30
 * 1 in 5 couples meet online
 * 3 in 5 gay couples meet on line
 * What happens in vegas stays.. on any social media sites
 * Lady Gaga, Justin Bieber, and Brittany Spears all have more twitter followers than there a people populating; Greece, Australia, North Korea, Isreal, and Chile.
 * gerenations y and z are email passe or find email to be "old school"
 * social gamers will buy $6 billion worth of __virtual__ goods by 2013
 * movie goers buy only $2.5 billion worth of __real__ goods
 * if facebok were a country it would be the 3rd largest
 * e-readers surpassed traditonal book
 * if wikipedia was a book it would be 2.25 milion pages long, and would take 123 years to read
 * 93% of businesses use social meadia to attrac customers
 * Kindergarten classes are now learning on ipads instead of chalk boards
 * Twitter, facebook, Youtube, and Google are banned in China
 * 50% of mobile usage in the UK traffic to Facebook
 * Some universites have "stopped" distrubuting e-mail accounts to their students.
 * youtube is the 2nd largest search engine
 * 90% of people trust peer recommendation where as only 14% trust ads