Stunning Social Media Statistics Plus Infographic

Do you wonder why your productivity has dropped over the past 2 – 3 years?
There is a time sink and it’s not television!
Those of us who are connected to the internet and that is 2 billion of us, have been distracted by social multi-media publishing machines that are pumping out staggering amounts of content with enticing high definition images and videos!
You cannot escape their allure as they tempt you to log in when you are out and about with either with your laptop, iPad or smart phone.
These enticing, tempting distractions are robbing us of time that should be spent doing productive work like washing your car, cleaning the house or doing your tax… and I know how much you all enjoy those activities!

20 Social Media Statistics

These figures reveal the huge black hole that our time disappears into when we visit Facebook, Twitter or YouTube or other social media sites.

1. One in every nine people on Earth is on Facebook ( This number is calculated by dividing the planets 6.94 billion people by Facebook’s 750 million users)
2. People spend 700 billion minutes per month on Facebook
3. Each Facebook user spends on average 15 hours and 33 minutes a month on the site
4. More than 250 million people access Facebook through their mobile devices
5. More than 2.5 million websites have integrated with Facebook
6. 30 billion pieces of content is shared on Facebook each month
7. 300,000 users helped translate Facebook into 70 languages
8. People on Facebook install 20 million “Apps” every day
9. YouTube has 490 million unique users who visit every month (as of February 2011)
10. YouTube generates 92 billion page views per month (These YouTube stats don’t include videos viewed on phones and embedded in websites)
11. Users on YouTube spend a total of 2.9 billion hours per month (326,294 years)
12. Wikipedia hosts 17 million articles
13. Wikipedia authors total over 91,000 contributors
14. People upload 3,000 images to Flickr (the photo sharing social media site) every minute
15. Flickr hosts over 5 billion images
16. 190 million average  Tweets per day occur on Twitter (May 2011)
17. Twitter is handling 1.6 billion queries per day
18. Twitter is adding nearly 500,000 users a day
19. Google+ has more than 25 million users
20. Google+ was the fastest social network to reach 10 million users at 16 days (Twitter took 780 days and Facebook 852 days)

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E-filing of Income Tax Return

E-filing of income tax return is an easy, 15-minute job. And it is definitely smoother than finding a tax consultant, haggling for the right price and then waiting endlessly for him to do the job at his whims.
So, how do you do it?
STEP 1
Go to the website of directorate of income tax, India, and register yourself, that is if you are not registered already. As you register, you need to fill in your PAN number and other details in order to set your login and password.
STEP 2
Once you are done with registration, log out and log in again with your PAN number as user ID and the new password you have set earlier. Click on e-filing A.Y. 2010-11 on the left side and download the e-filing form for INDIVIDUAL, HUF (HUF stands for Hindu undivided family)
STEP 3
The form comes in a ZIP file. Save it to your desktop and extract the Excel file from it to a new folder. Open the excel file and enable macros. Mind you, you have to enable macros in order to complete the process.
STEP 4
Fill in details like Name, Address, City, State, Pin Code in the sheet for INCOME DETAILS; fill in your PAN number wherever required and then fill in details of your income, investments and tax paid as provided to you in the Form 16 as per the instructions on the sheet. Then click on the VALIDATE button to check. If the details are correct. It will show the sheet is ok. (That is if no errors are found).
STEP 5
The next sheet of the file is TDS. Fill in the details for No 23 only if you have income only from salary. If you have income other than salary, fill in details for No 24 also. Fill in details of TAN number, name of company, address, city, state, pin code as given in form 16.
STEP 6
Fill in details of income charged under salaries, deductions from Chapter VI-A, tax payable and tax deducted. All these information is found on your Form 16. Click on VALIDATE button to check for correctness.
STEP 7
Next sheet is taxes paid and verification. Fill in details of name, father’s name, place, date and PAN number under the VERIFICATION section shown in RED. Click validate once again. If all the three sheets are shown OK on validation, you are ready to generate an XML file of the details.
STEP 8
Click on Generate XML and it will ask you to save the file. Once saved, go back to the website and log in (if you are logged out) with your user name and password. On the left side, click on submit return with 2010-11 as assessment year. Upload your generated XML to the site. Your e-filing is done.
STEP 9
It sends you a copy of acknowledgement to your email ID and also allows you to download the acknowledgement by clicking on blue link. The acknowledgement again comes in a ZIP file. Extract the file, take a printout of the PDF file and sign it manually.
STEP 10
Send a signed Acknowledgement to Income Tax Department address shown at the bottom of the PDF file by ORDINARY POST only. You will get a confirmation from IT department within one week.

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