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Facebook, the largest social media platform in the world, had 2.4 billion users in 2019. Other social media platforms, including YouTube and WhatsApp, also had over one billion users each. These numbers are huge – in 2019, there were 7.7 billion people worldwide, with at least 3.5 billion online. This means social media platforms were used by ...
Daily hours spent with digital media in the United States; Landline Internet subscriptions; Landline Internet subscriptions by download speed; Landline Internet subscriptions per 100 people; Landline Internet subscriptions per 100 people, by download speed; Share of primary schools with access to the Internet for teaching
The rise of social media. Social media sites are used by more than two-thirds of Internet users. How has social media grown over time? Esteban Ortiz-Ospina. Are Facebook and other social media platforms bad for our well-being? What does the research tell us about the causal impact of social media use on our well-being? Esteban Ortiz-Ospina
Most of the news stories that claim social media has a negative impact on well-being rely on data from surveys comparing individuals with different levels of social media use as evidence. In the chart, I show one concrete example of this type of correlational analysis.
In this article, we explore data on loneliness and social connections across countries and over time and review the available evidence on how and why social connections and loneliness affect our health and emotional welfare, as well as our material well-being.
In the last few years, AI systems have helped to make progress on some of the hardest problems in science. Large AIs called recommender systems determine what you see on social media, which products are shown to you in
Average daily hours spent engaging with digital media (e.g., images and videos, web pages, social media apps, etc.) The data for 'other connected devices' includes game consoles. Mobile includes smartphones & tablets. All data includes usage at home and work for people 18+.
Technology over the long run: zoom out to see how dramatically the world can change within a lifetime Max Roser The brief history of artificial intelligence: the world has changed fast — what might be next?
During the past few years more information on information and communication technology use has become available from household and business surveys. Also important are data on actual use of telecommunications services.
This interactive chart shows the annual growth rate of energy consumption. Positive values indicate a country's energy consumption was higher than the previous year. Negative values indicate its energy consumption was lower than the previous year.