Social Media in 2011: Year in Review

On an average day in 2011, 250 million photos were uploaded to Facebook, 8 years of video content were added to YouTube and 140 million tweets were sent.

Social media plays a big role in our lives in 2011, but what is it that we are talking about? As the year comes to a close many social networks are giving us summary data of trends of use. Here is a run-down of our year online according to the social networks so far:

Facebook “Memology 2011”

 

Twitter “Year in Review”

 

LinkedIn “The Most Popular Stories on LinkedIn in 2011″

Google “Zeitgeist 2011: Year In Review”

YouTube “Year in Review” / “Rewind”

Flickr “Year in Photos 2011”

 

Storify “2011 Storify of the Year”

 

Instagram “Year in Review”

 

StumbleUpon – “Best of StumbleUpon 2011″

 

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If there are any reviews made after the time of posting, please note them in the comments and I will add them. Statistics cited here have been sourced directly from the social networks to which they refer (Sources: Facebook, Twitter, YouTube).