These days, everyone knows, even if you don’t use them yourself, how massively popular social networking sites such as Facebook and Twitter are. Whether you use them for social networking, or for your business, the amount of time we spend using these sites is growing every day.

Reading some internet statistics will show you really how massive these sites are becoming. Yesterday alone, over a quarter of all internet users visited Facebook.com, this makes Facebook the second most popular site in the world, sitting right behind Google. Youtube comes in just behind Facebook with 23% of internet users. Despite Twitter only having a mere 4%, they are looking to become one of the largest social networking sites in the near future.

Our need to talk about our lives everywhere we go has lead to the introduction of many gadgets that are targeted for social networking uses. These range of gadgets allow us to satisfy out need to connect to the internet everywhere we go. One gadget that is always being improved is the ’smart phone’ which is being lead by the iPhone. Other devices include netbooks which are designed for on-the-go working and social networking.

Our need to connect the internet 24/7 supports the claim that we actually are addicted to gadgets. Even if you don’t spend your life on social networking sites, you won’t have to look very far before you see a gadget that you never leave the house without. Whether it’s an MP3 player, such as an iPod, or just a mobile phone, these are the main gadgets that we can’t live without.

Retailers have caught onto the fact that we love out little gadgets and now almost everyday a new wacky gadget is released, everything from digital photo albums to binary clocks

With Christmas approaching, online retailers look to make a small fortune from gadget sales as customer race online to pick-up those must have novelty items. Some novalty items on the hot list this year are indoor skydiving, people really will buy anything these days.