The United Kingdom is known best known for its Royals, football, bad teeth, bad weather and the Beatles.

Now a video produced by UK social media firm Simply Zesty shows how the phenomenon has spread across the masses in the monarch.

In the last few weeks, the world saw Facebook users reach 500 million in population, meaning 1 in 14 people globally maintains an active Facebook account.

More locally for UK audiences, as well as Commonwealth folk like us down here in Australia, Queen Elizabeth herself became a member of a social network - in her case, photo sharing website Flickr.

It is little wonder when you see the stats revealed in the video below. Most astoundingly, 64% of Brits have Social Media profiles while 60% admit to reading blogs. Enjoy all the numbers!