According to a forecast by the consulting and technology firm Gartner, the metaverse, just like today's internet, will take over a major part of people's lives. Given its capabilities, including time limitation in the digital world and its constant dynamism, this prediction is not far-fetched.
As you know, there are now more than 5 billion internet users in the world. Alphabet (Google's parent company) ranks first in Iran and second in the world in terms of internet traffic.
There are about 4 billion and 330 million users on social networks worldwide. Facebook (Meta), with 2 billion and 850 million people, is the world's most-used social network. Second place in global internet traffic has also gone to the metaverse.
In Iran the situation of social networks is somewhat different. The social network WhatsApp (a Meta subsidiary), with more than 50 million users, is the most-used social network, and Instagram, with more than 47 million Iranian users, ranks next.
Amir Mohammadzadeh Lajevardi, a member of the board of directors of the Telecommunications Infrastructure Company, had previously pointed to this, noting that fifty-six percent of internet traffic is allocated to WhatsApp and Instagram.
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Machine-translated from Persian by Namafar; the Persian original is authoritative. Read the original in Persian