Graphic outlines our online lives

Its not called the information highway for nothing.

This graphic shows the astonishing amount of our lives that are now spent online.

In just one minute, 216,000 photos are posted, 278,000 tweets are sent forth, and 1.8m Facebook likes are recorded.

In that same minute, a total of €62,000 of sales take place on Amazon, and three days’ worth of video is uploaded to YouTube.

Cashback site Qmee has created an infographic that pulled information and figures from PC Mag, Business Insider, and other sites to create a snapshot of life on the craziest highway in the world.

In any minute, Google performs 2m searches.

The infographic also reveals that 70 domains are registered and 571 websites are created within a minute online as 204m emails are sent.

Go-Globe.com designed a similar graphic in June last year. However, in the year since, the amount of emails sent has increased by 36m a minute.

There are almost four times more Google searches than a year ago, and 180,000 more tweets are sent.

YouTube video uploads have increased from 25 hours up to 72 hours.

Relatives and friends now spend the equivalent of 1.4m minutes chatting over Skype, compared to 370,000 minutes last year.

Facebook figures appear to have dropped, however. This year there are on average 41,000 status updates every second whereas according to Go-Globe, this time last year the figure was in excess of 695,000.

The increase in posts across social networks has also seen an increase of what’s been dubbed “Twinglish”.

Social media monitoring company Brandwatch found that one in every 150 English words used on Twitter is spelt incorrectly.

On Facebook, one in 323 words is spelt incorrectly, on Google+ it’s one in 238, and one in 556 words is incorrect on online forums