an ultracrepidarian is someone who gives their opinion on something that they know nothing about.

facebook, skype, and twitter are all banned in china.

59% of the links posted in social media are never clicked.

according to a recent (rather small) study, the average 29-year-old who is clinically depressed spends 68 or more minutes on social media per day, and posts mostly from home. a healthy 29-year-old is on social media for 17 minutes or less per day, and posts from almost everywhere but home.

an average of 600,000 account hacks happen on facebook each and every day.

facebook tracks every website that you visit, even after you turn off facebook.

at any given moment, about 30 million facebook users are dead.

• average time per day spent reading a book or magazine by americans aged 15 - 19, other than for school: 5 minutes
• average time spent per day by this age group on a computer or video game: 1 hour

there is a rumor that bankers and stock traders are using snapchat to aid and abet insider trading. because no records of the texts are permanently saved, it is extremely difficult if not impossible for the sec to prosecute these crimes.

the united states military uses a persona management system (sometimes known as 'sock puppet software') to create fake identities on various social media platforms to spread pro-american propoganda.

many of the political pix posted on facebook, when you do a little research, are posted by an organization that's owned by another organization that's owned by another organization that's owned by yet another organization that believes in turning the u.s. into a theocracy like iran, or is owned by the koch brothers, a wing of the nazi party, or some other batshit crazy group. but when we 'like' the one sentence meme they posted, they say that 'everyone' agrees with their plan to turn us into soup. look into the groups that you support with your 'likes'. they just may want to eat you.