We all know that sites such as Facebook abd Twitter are becoming massively popular on the internet. Even if you don’t use them yourself, you’ll know family and friends that do. Whether you use them for social networking, or for your business, the amount of time we spend using these sites is growing every day.
Just by looking at some internet stats, you can see how popular these sites have become. Yesterday alone, 26% of all internet users visited Facebook.com, this makes it the second most visited site behind Google. Youtube is comes in behind Facebook with 23% of the global internet users. Although Twitter isn’t as successful with a mere 4%, that has risen dramatically over the past 3 months and it looks to become one of the biggest sites in the future.
This need that’s built up over the years to be constantly connected to the world has led to the creation of many social networking gadgets. These range of gadgets allow us to satisfy out need to connect to the internet everywhere we go. One gadget that is always being improved is the ’smart phone’ which is being lead by the iPhone. Some of the other devices that are becoming more popular are netbooks which are smaller laptops that are built for internet anywhere.
So this need to be connected to the world 24/7 simply supports the argument that we are really addicted to gadgets. Even if you don’t think you’re addicted to gadgets, I don’t think you’ll have to look very far to find one that you don’t leave the house without. Whether it’s an MP3 player, such as an iPod, or just a mobile phone, these are the main gadgets 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 sunrise alarm clocks to light alarm clocks
As Christmas is getting ever closer, retailers both online and off look to make a small fortune as customers race to pick-up their must have gadgets this year. A few of the novalty items we’re after this year are candy grabbers, people really will buy anything these days.