A whole lotta sharin' going on

An article on mashable.com, a social media news site, published an infographic created by AddThis, a sharing application that is installed on more than 7 million domains and used by more than one billion users per month, with some figures about recent user sharing habits.

Sharing takes place when a user clicks “Share This” within an article or other item on a Web page and can then share the content through his or her own various social media profiles, such as Twitter, Facebook or e-mail. Notably, Gmail outpaced StumbleUpon, Facebook and Twitter, increasing by 395 percent. Facebook sharing increased by 44 percent in 2010, up 33 percent from 2009.