Email more popular than beer…and other fun facts


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As I close down for the holiday break, I though I’d leave you with some lighthearted statistics about email. Something to impress the relatives with.

Ready?

beer 1. According to Google Trends, email is more popular than Elvis, the Beatles, chocolate, beer, Justin Bieber and Harry Potter…but not sex.
globe 2. Say you printed out each non-spam email sent in the world on a single piece of standard A4 copy paper:

  • One day’s worth of emails would produce a stack of paper 2,159 times taller than Mt. Everest
  • It would take just over 20 days for the stack to reach the moon
  • In just under 2 hours, you would have enough paper to cover the continental USA
  • Around 4 days later, you could cover the earth’s entire surface area
china 3. If email accounts were people, the email population would be:

  • 2.3 times the size of China
  • 9.9 times the size of the USA
  • 38 times the size of Germany

Happy holidays and thank you so much for blessing me with your attention in 2011. See you next year!

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10 comments on “Email more popular than beer…and other fun facts”

  1. Remy Bergsma says:
    December 22, 2011 at 12:06 pm

    Awesome! This is going to be a big hit at Christmas and New Year’s Eve party’s Mark ;)

    Happy Holidays to you and your family!

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  2. Robin C Kennedy says:
    December 22, 2011 at 3:59 pm

    I notice the number of friends and relatives prepared to tolerate my company is inversely proportional to the number of email anecdotes I share.

    But I am pleased email made it through another year.

    Pleasing infographic from Visible Gains
    http://bit.ly/uqyb8w

    All the best for the holidays. Robin

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    • Mark Brownlow says:
      December 22, 2011 at 6:31 pm

      And happy holidays to you, too, Robin. Thanks for all the wise contributions through 2011!

  3. Jim Ducharme says:
    December 23, 2011 at 6:00 pm

    Hi Mark,

    More popular than beer? If email is also more popular than hockey, we Canadians are in real trouble. ;)

    Merry Christmas Mark and all!

    Regards,
    jim

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  4. Robin C Kennedy says:
    December 28, 2011 at 11:03 am

    Wow Mark! So kind of you to allow dsfsf to convey the benefits of Canada Geese – do you think they may be becoming more popular than email? (I expect this to be deleted…)

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    • Mark says:
      December 28, 2011 at 6:06 pm

      Well, it is the season of goodwill.

      Besides, I think what he is saying is that if emails were geese, you’d soon have a very sticky messy front lawn.

      Almost a shame to delete it. Almost.

  5. Dave Alcock says:
    January 26, 2012 at 11:14 am

    Nice to see you are taking a light heart approach to this. I like it. I still don’t believe it’s more popular than beer though.

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    • Mark Brownlow says:
      January 26, 2012 at 11:23 am

      I have to admit, when someone asks if I’d like a beer or another email, there can only be one answer.

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