Is The World Becoming Addicted To Gadgets?
These days, everyone knows, even if you don’t use them yourself, how massively popular social networking sites such as Facebook and Twitter are. Whether you use these sites for social networking or to help your business, the amount of time we use these sites for is increasing every day.
Internet statistics can prove just how popular these sites really are. Yesterday, 26% of global internet users visited Facebook.com, making it the second most popular site in the world. Youtube is the next most popular social networking site with 23% of internet traffic. Despite Twitter only having a mere 4%, they are looking to become one of the largest social networking sites in the near future.
Our need to talk about our lives everywhere we go has lead to the introduction of many gadgets that are targeted for social networking uses. These great gadgets allow us to reach the world wide web anywhere we go. One gadget that has move ahead in leaps and bounds recently are mobile phones, one of the most popular new ’smart phones’ being the iPhone. Some of the other devices that are becoming more popular are netbooks which are smaller laptops that are built for internet anywhere.
This requirement that we have to connect to the internet all the time supports the argument that we areally are addicted to gadgets. Even if you don’t spend your life on social networking sites, you won’t have to look very far before you see a gadget that you never leave the house without. Whether it’s an iPod or simply a mobile phone, these are the main gadgets and gizmos that we can’t live without.
Retailers have caught onto the fact that we love out little gadgets and now almost everyday a new wacky gadget is released, everything from digital photo albums to MP3 alarm clocks
With Christmas approaching, online retailers look to make a small fortune from gadget sales as customer race online to pick-up those must have novelty items. Some novalty items on the hot list this year are led shower heads, people really will buy anything these days.
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