The Attack Democrat--Nothing Conservative Here: Social Media—The mind-boggling facts and an equally mind-boggling must-see video.

Here are some mind-boggling facts about social media usage today followed by a link to a video you must see about our changing world.

Did you know?

1 in 5 couples now meet online
Lady Gaga, Justin Bieber and Britney Spears together have more Twitter followers than the entire populations of Sweden, Israel, Greece, Chile, North Korea and Australia
If Wikipedia.com were made into a book, it would be 2.25 million pages long and would take about 123 years to read
Social media has overtaken pornography as the top activity on the Internet
An education study revealed that online students out performed those receiving face-to-face instruction
Kids in kindergarten now are starting to learn on iPads, not chalkboards
Facebook tops Google in weekly U.S. traffic, and if the social networking site were a country, it would be the third-largest behind China and India
69 percent of parents are "friends" with their children on social networks
A new member joins LinkedIn every second
Gen Y and Gen X consider e-mail so passé that some universities have even stopped distributing e-mail accounts
In April 2011, E-book sales surpassed print book sales in all categories. February 2011 ebook sales were 202.3% higher than in February 2010.
A baby in Egypt has been named Facebook to honor the social networking site's role in the country's revolution
Groupon will reach $1 billion in sales faster than any company in history
24 hours of video is uploaded to YouTube every minute
The average kids receives their first cell phone by age 8
42% use their phone primarily for texting
31% of teens send and receive more than 100 messages per day or more than 3,000 messages a month.
15% of teens who are texters send more than 200 texts a day, or more than 6,000 texts a month.
Boys typically send and receive 30 texts a day; girls typically send and receive 80 messages per day.
Older girls who text are the most active, with 14-17 year-old girls typically sending 100 or more messages a day or more than 3,000 texts a month.