By the time I finish this blog and you read this blog, the numbers would have changed! The amount of data which is available on the net and otherwise is so vast that you cannot even imagine! It is of course akin to the fact that human population reached 8 billion on November 15, 2022 according to the latest United Nations estimates and in your lifetime, there is no way you can meet or see all the people of the world!
An approximation of the number of people an average human would meet in his or her life time would be 80,000! That’s just 0.00102% of the world population. You never meet the remaining 99.999% of the population! That means that your generalization and conclusion of human actions and emotions is based on you meeting 0.001% of the world population!
It is of course understood that your behavior is based on the interaction with a limited group of your close circle! You can also add videos and social media to that list! But even here the data is so vast that you can never see everything online ever in your life time!
As of February 2024, there are almost 4 billion videos on YouTube, 20% of which are YouTube Shorts. Not to mention that 2,500 videos are uploaded onto YouTube every minute!
In fact, just to keep up with YouTube in real-time, taking the same average video length of 11.7 minutes, you’d need around 29,250 people watching simultaneously!
But stop everything for now and if we watch the videos continuously then how long would it take to get through everything on there?
A calculation done for just around 800 million videos on the site with an average video length of around 11.7 minutes it was found that it would take approximately 9.36 billion minutes to watch!
That’s 156 million hours, 6.5 million days, or a whopping 17,810 years of just watching YouTube videos! And that is for 800 million! Do not even bother to calculate for the 4 billion!
Now you like multitasking and can handle more than one screen or maybe two and ok, for now lets assume you are a Brainiac and you can simultaneously watch at least 100 screens going at the same time it would still take over 178 years to get through it all without any breaks in between!
Do not get disheartened by the mind boggling numbers! Just like how you can select only a limited number of people to meet, you can select a limited number of websites to visit or limited number of videos to watch! Especially the ones those are special in both people and video! A very special person also was Puneeth Rajkumar who was gone too soon. He will be missed.
Now you have doing a task which you cannot finish so stop scrolling and sleep!
Shubh ratri…
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