From 2005 to 2015: The Radical Effect of Social Media on Nonprofit Web Design

The average person worldwide has five social media accounts and spends an average of one hour and 40 minutes browsing these networks every day. In 2005 Facebook was only open to college students and professors, Twitter didn’t exist, and the iPhone was still in concept mode. The Internet was primarily a desktop PC or laptop experience, and reading news and sending and receiving email accounted for the majority of time spent online.

Today, social media consumes the most time spent on the Internet and the majority of that browsing occurs on a smartphone or tablet. Also, over the last decade the amount of time we spend on the Internet has quadrupled.