I am a big visual person whenever it comes to understanding the magnitude of anything relating to comparing numbers or data. Seeing a table, graph, chart, etc. for me just helps to understand the scope of data in relation to the comparable item numbers.
JESS3 Labs designed one of the more up-to-date and visually appealing models that I have truly seen in awhile. Per their site, "JESS3 Labs is a creative agency that specializes in data visualization" and they put together a terrific visual of the social media network database entitled "The Geosocial Universe." This infographic draws together the major hitters in the social media universe and compares them in total registered users in spherical orbit form with shading done to represent the fraction of users that access these social sites via mobile phone.
In addition to there being some new faces on this social media orbit, it should come as no surprise that the top two social sites are Facebook (629 million users) and Skype (663 million users). What is surprising data to me considering how reliant society has become on their mobile phones, I a guilty member as well, is how such a small fraction of Yahoo Mail, Hotmail and Gmail users actually check their mail via mobile. I would think that many people are like me in that I rely on my phone for talking, texting and email as the three main purposes, so how are the spheres of those three main email providers not more filled in? Regardless, JESS3 put together a great representation of our "Geosocial Universe" and the number of registered users will only increase as social media becomes more and more of an entity of its own.
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