How Social Media has changed over Past Five Years? [INFOGRAPHIC]

5 Years in the age of internet is a long long time. And nowhere is this evident more than in Social Media scenario. Social Media actions such as likes, tweets, photo/video uploads and other user generated contents are now counted in fraction of seconds. More than 3.8 billion users were reported to be on Social Media sites in 2013 and this figure keeps increasing day by day. Here’s an interesting infographic from HootSuite of what has changed in Social media in last five years.

Main Highlight from the Social Media infographic:

There are more than 1.7 billion ACTIVE social media users in the world.

As the infographic was created by Hootsuite, it includes milestones for Hootsuite itself.

What other changes in Social Media do you find interesting in the infographic?

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