Communication


 * ======http://www.internetworldstats.com/stats.htm====== ||
 * ======http://www.brighthub.com/office/project-management/articles/79052.aspx====== ||

**( 2011 Est.)** || **Internet Users** ====== ====== **Dec. 31, 2000** || **Internet Users** ====== ====== **Latest Data** || **Penetration** ====== ====== **(% Population)** || **Growth** ====== ====== **2000-2011** || **Users %** ====== ====== **of Table** ||
 * ~ ====== **World Regions** ====== ||~ **Population** ====== ======
 * ~ ====== **World Regions** ====== ||~ **Population** ====== ======
 * ======**Africa**====== || ====== 1,037,524,058 ====== || ====== 4,514,400 ====== || ====== **139,875,242** ====== || ====== 13.5 % ====== || ====== 2,988.4 % ====== || ====== 6.2 % ====== ||
 * ======**Asia**====== || ====== 3,879,740,877 ====== || ====== 114,304,000 ====== || ====== **1,016,799,076** ====== || ====== 26.2 % ====== || ====== 789.6 % ====== || ====== 44.8 % ====== ||
 * ======**Europe**====== || ====== 816,426,346 ====== || ====== 105,096,093 ====== || ====== **500,723,686** ====== || ====== 61.3 % ====== || ====== 376.4 % ====== || ====== 22.1 % ====== ||
 * ======**Middle East**====== || ====== 216,258,843 ====== || ====== 3,284,800 ====== || ====== **77,020,995** ====== || ====== 35.6 % ====== || ====== 2,244.8 % ====== || ====== 3.4 % ====== ||
 * ======**North America**====== || ====== 347,394,870 ====== || ====== 108,096,800 ====== || ====== **273,067,546** ====== || ====== 78.6 % ====== || ====== 152.6 % ====== || ====== 12.0 % ====== ||
 * ======**Latin America / Carib.**====== || ====== 597,283,165 ====== || ====== 18,068,919 ====== || ====== **235,819,740** ====== || ====== 39.5 % ====== || ====== 1,205.1 % ====== || ====== 10.4 % ====== ||
 * ======**Oceania / Australia**====== || ====== 35,426,995 ====== || ====== 7,620,480 ====== || ====== **23,927,457** ====== || ====== 67.5 % ====== || ====== 214.0 % ====== || ====== 1.1 % ====== ||
 * ======**WORLD TOTAL**====== || ====== **6,930,055,154** ====== || ====== **360,985,492** ====== || ====== **2,267,233,742** ====== || ====== **32.7 %** ====== || ====== **528.1 %** ====== || ====== **100.0 %** ====== ||

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It wasn't until 1984 that cellular phones were first mass marketed to the general public. It was a technical marvel by which people could reach into their pockets, then simply make a call to someone - anywhere in the world. This new wireless gadget was bulky, expensive to operate compared to nowadays and back then seemed like just another toy on the wish list of those who had money. At that time no one pondered whether these techno-futuristic gadgets could have a potential risk of causing cancer, brain tumors or any other sort of health risk. There had been no pre-market testing performed on these radiation-emitting devices, which is held next to the area of the head which is least protected by bone (skull). In fact the agency who regulates the devices in the U.S., the FCC, was much more concerned that these new devices did not cause any form of interference with televisions, radios or any other device that may be in the same vicinity. ======

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Even 10 years later, when cell phones kept gaining popularity with the general buying public and more then 15 million Americans had cell phones (not to mention worldwide), still there was no testing performed or thought given to health risks. By the end of 1999 almost 104 million people in the US (and more than 500 million worldwide) owned a mobile phone, some who even removed their physical phone line from their home opting to use their cellular number for all calls. ======

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The cell phone industry says that every phone it sells safely meets radiation safety limits set by the Government. But tests recently conducted by ABC's news program 20/20 found that some of the most popular phones can far exceed the government's radiation standards - depending upon how they are held. 20/20's report showed that government testing guidelines are so vague that a phone can pass the Federal Communications Commission’s requirements when tested in one position and exceed those maximum levels when held in a slightly different position. The signals transmitted and received by your cell phone are the same type of wave that is used in your microwave oven or by a doctors x-ray machine and although these waves are not as strong, the waves received / transmitted by your phone is strong enough to travel over 50 miles. Now even though they are not as strong, think about what you wear when you get an x-ray at the doctors office, a heavy lead vest, not to mention the technician who is taking the x-ray goes into a separate room or behind a lead screen. Even worse, is that dangerous levels of radiation build up in the human body, that is why its not uncommon for a doctor to ask how many x-rays you've had in the past year. ======

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Depending on how close the cell phone antenna is, as much as 60 percent of the microwave radiation is absorbed by and actually penetrates the area around the head. In most cases the bone of an adult skull can block most of the radiation that is created from other devices. The problem encountered with cell phones is that we hold them directly next to one of the areas of the head which have the least amount of protection, the ear canal / ear drum. The majority of the radiation passes through the soft tissue of the ear canal, some reaching an inch to an inch-and-a-half into the brain. This is also why every technical testing and report that have been conducted around the world have recommended that you refrain from using a cell phone in the immediate vicinity of a newborn or toddler as their bodies are still developing and their bones are not yet thick enough to block the harmful waves. ======

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Read more: [|http://articles.businessinsider.com/2011-09-21/tech/30183184_1_texts-cell-phone-users-pew-internet-project#ixzz1wGilPCZx] ======

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Facebook has over 500 million users according to a 2010 poll. 7.5 million users are under the age of 13. Of those 500 million users 290 million of them log on just too play games! // Farmville // is Facebook's most popular game with 75 million registered users. Facebook also has 70 different languages including pirate! ======

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Until the boom of Facebook, Myspace was the was the biggest networking site in the world. The 100 millionth Myspace account was created in August of 2006 in the Netherlands. Myspace is the 4th largest social networking site of 2012. ======

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Oovoo is accessible through your Iphone, Ipad, and all other internet accesses. There are also Oovoo video chat apps for you ipads and Facebook. The website was initially released in 2007, but was founded in 2006. Because this website does doesn't provide encryption for audio and video calling, it is, at any time, vulnerable too interception and viewing by a third party. ======

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Instagram was founded in 2010, with a parent website of Facebook, that recently bought it for $1 billion dollars cash. This is a website where you can share photos for free. You can take a picture, and then share it to a variety of social networking sites, such as Facebook and Myspace. By the month of December (2010), it had 5 million users, but in September of the same year, it passed the ten million mark. On January of 2011, Instagram was a runner-up for the award of "Best Mobile App". ======

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294 billion messages per day means more than 2.8 million emails are sent every second and some 90 trillion emails are sent per year, ninety percent is spam or junk. You can have an email on so many websites, google ,comcast, yahoo,and AOL. ======

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The emergence and growth of blogs in the late 1990s coincided with the advent of web publishing tools that facilitated the posting of content by non-technical users. (Previously knowledge of such technologies as HTML and FTP had been required to publish content on the Web.) ======

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Although not a must, most good quality blogs are interactive, allowing visitors to leave comments and even message each other via GUI widgets on the blogs and it is this interactivity that distinguishes them from other static websites.[2] In that sense, blogging can be seen as a form of social networking. Indeed, bloggers do not only produce content to post on their blogs but also build social relations with their readers and other bloggers.[3] ======

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Many blogs provide commentary on a particular subject; others function as more personal online diaries; yet still others function more as online brand advertising of a particular individual or company. A typical blog combines text, images, and links to other blogs, Web pages, and other media related to its topic. The ability of readers to leave comments in an interactive format is an important part of many blogs. Most blogs are primarily textual, although some focus on art (art blog), photographs (photoblog), videos (video blogging or vlogging), music (MP3 blog), and audio (podcasting). Microblogging is another type of blogging, featuring very short posts. ======

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This video explains digital society. It shows how social networking is changing the way people communicate. It explains how social networking works. ======

6 billion phone calls per day in the U.S

 * Did You Know **

- The average person spends 13 hours a week on the internet

- Most kids spend their time in front of a screen then they do exercising in 1 week

- Americans spend 32.7 hours online a week

- technology is effecting kids living in the real world

- kids should use the internet responsibly

- 95% of people keep online albums

- 5% of people keep non-online albums

- websites that are non-informational are Twitter, Facebook, AIM, ooVoo