The Internet
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Gamers spend an average of 8 hours per week playing online games, with millions of accounts registered on games like World of Warcraft and Second Life. Popular online games and social media platforms like Facebook engage hundreds of millions of active users worldwide, generating billions of dollars in annual revenues from subscriptions, virtual goods transactions, and user time spent online.
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- 2. Gamers spend on average 8 hours weekly playing online.
- 3. Young people sleep 2 to 3 hours less per night than 10 years ago.
- 4. In January 2010, 18 million accounts were registered on Second Life.
- 5. Facebook reports more than 500 million active users!
- 6. Users spend 700 billion minutes on Facebook each month…
- 7. 13 million players of World of Warcraft (WoW), the world's largest MMORPG.
- 8. MMORPGs generated $1.5 billion in subscription revenues worldwide in 2008, forecast to reach $2.5 billion by 2012.
- 9. Up to 250,000 players are simultaneously online on WoW.
- 10. Transactions and sales of virtual goods in virtual worlds were estimated at $18 billion in 2009.