Social Media Statistics: How Social Media Had Reached Almost Every Aspect in Australians Nowadays

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More than three in five Australians now use social media. Smartphones and tablets have overtaken the laptop.

A growing number of the Australians are using social networks wherever they can: workplaces, schools, bedrooms, and even the toilet cubicle. A new study of Australian internet users found more than three in five now use social media, with almost half of users logging on daily and some more than five times a day.

Australian Facebook users are spending more than seven hours on the site every week, and the smartphone is now the most popular way to access social networks, taking over from the laptop computer.

Is this a sign that many Australians has became addicted to social media?

 

Australian Social Media Statistics

  • 65 per cent of online Australians use social networks
  • 45 per cent log on daily
  • 17 per cent log on more than five times daily
  • 76 per cent log on from a smartphone
  • 37 per cent view social networks first thing in the morning 42 per cent use social networks last thing at night
  • 34 per cent log on at work
  • 6 per cent log on in the toilet
  • The typical Facebook user spends 7 hours on the site weekly
  • Average number of friends, followers and fans is 258