The stats listed in Kip Bodnar’s 13 Mind-Bending Social Media Marketing Statistics are truly crazy when you think about them.  The full list is below.  Take a read and just think about the opportunity here.  What great times we live in!

1. 20 % of daily searches on Google have never been searched for before.*

2. There are more than 3.5 billion pieces of content shared each week on Facebook.*

3. 43 % of all online consumers are social media fans or followers.*

4. 53 % of people on Twitter recommend companies or products in their tweets.*

5. The average American internet user watches a 1/2 hour of video online per day.*

6. 35 hours of video footage is uploaded to YouTube every minute.*

7. 56 % of LinkedIn’s users are outside of the U.S.–and there are 100 million of them.*

8. Each day 2,300 new Wikipedia articles are created, adding to its 17 million articles, with contributions from 91,000 active contributors.*

9. 1.4 million new blog posts are created every day.*

10. 200 million Facebook users access the service from a mobile device.*

11. There are more than 5 billion pics on Flickr.*

12. 45 million people view SlideShare presentations monthly.*

13. $3.08 billion will be spent to advertise on social networks in 2011, a 55 % increase from 2010.*