With Vine, Instagram video, and the ever-increasing popularity of YouTube, video is dominating the social media landscape in 2013.

Uberfip’s latest video infographic provides interesting facts and figures about the growth of social video, and what these numbers represent for marketers.

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Do we share too much online?

Nine in ten adults think we do, and when you look at the statistics it’s hard not to agree. Millions write status updates each and every day about their health, love life and alcohol use, and a startlingly high number of folks tweet and Facebook whenever they leave their house.

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UK humor website The Poke produced a hilarious short video parodying social media, and we want to share it with you.

Follow The Poke on Twitter for more “time well wasted” (that’s their motto).

And check out the video, below.

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Did you know that teenybopper music superstar (and worldwide global irritant) Justin Bieber has more followers on Twitter than the entire population of Canada?

Yep. Bieber’s more than 36 million Twitter fans means that essentially everybody from the Canadian’s homeland has signed up to be a willing participant in the Terminator-like unstoppable rampage of the pint-sized monstrosity, with a couple of million extra folks from around the globe thrown in on top.

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Erik Qualman, author of the website and book Socialnomics, has updated his popular YouTube video about social media for the fourth time.

The video, a roughly three-minute look at stats related to the digital age, is a really interesting and digestible snapshot of social media and its impact on our daily lives.

We’ve pulled out 11 of the most surprising fact mentioned in the video:

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It’s been a heck of a year for social media, but which social networks had their best-ever season? Which laggards have suddenly found themselves filling the role of benchwarmer?

Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and Pinterest all made the starting line-up in 2012, while YouTube, LinkedIn and Reddit provided strong support. But what about 2013 – is there ever going to be room on the team for Foursquare, Path and born-again Myspace… or even (gasp) Google+?

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Social media has quickly established itself as a pivotal and integral part of our everyday personal and business lives, but it’s easy to forget that Twitter and Facebook aren’t everything, particularly when it comes to marketing.

Search remains of paramount importance to the majority of brands. For local business visibility, customers are far more likely to use search engines than they are social media. And while social media excels at brand awareness and consumer interactivity, search marketing has been shown to be more effective for lead generation.

So, which is better?

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Did you know that Twitter now has over 140 million active users who tweet 340 million times every day? Or that the average Twitter user has 126 followers, 40 percent of Twitter users never tweet at all and 0.05 percent of Twitter’s total population attract almost 50 percent of all users?

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During a job interview, a man is grilled about what he posts online. He must respond to questions about his seemingly innocent behavior on multiple social networking websites. What begins as employees asking questions of a prospective candidate slowly evolves into a personal battle between the existing employees, as a result of these websites. The question everyone must ask is, “Have I Shared Too Much?”

That’s the description and title of a new film by writer and director Sameer Acharya, who takes a look at the growing obsession with social media in this hilarious and brilliantly-insightful comedy short.

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