The mobile, social, increasingly Chinese Internet, in 10 charts

The Internet is changing. It’s getting more social, more mobile and more deeply integrated into our lives. And it’s increasingly dominated by Chinese people.

That was the message Mary Meeker, a venture capitalist at the firm of Kleiner Perkins Caufield Byers, delivered at last week’s D11 conference. Here are 10 charts from her presentation that illustrate the Internet’s transformation into a global, mobile and pervasive medium.

Photo and video sharing explodes

User-generated content sites like Flickr and YouTube have been around for the better part of a decade. But only in the last few years have ordinary users had devices in their pockets powerful enough to share compromising photos of themselves with the world at 2 a.m.

In the last four years, the number of photos shared online has exploded, from fewer than 100 million photos per day in 2009 to more than 500 million today:
(Mary Meeker)

(Mary Meeker)

The growth of photo-sharing on Facebook actually began to slow a couple of years ago, as users flocked to newer services such as Instagram and Snapchat. Perhaps a chart like this scared Facebook into paying $1 billion to buy Instagram earlier this year.

YouTube videos have had a similarly exponential pattern of growth. People now upload 100 hours of video to YouTube every minute, up from less than 20 hours a minute four years ago.
(Mary Meeker)

(Mary Meeker)

Facebook’s slowing growth can also be seen in this graph, which compares the popularity of a broad range of online services. But it’s hard to take this graph too seriously, given that it shows MySpace making a comeback.
(Mary Meeker)