The old saying that a picture is worth a thousand words holds true—pictures offer so much more than just words. For this reason, it is important to utilize infographics on your social media pages.

There are many benefits to using infographics. Firstly, images are memorable. Man understands reality chiefly through images. Pictures stick in people’s heads more so than words. And with the rise of up-to-the-minute technology, it has become harder to hold a person’s attention with text alone. A visual aid alleviates the need to pay close attention to words and actually is more engaging than text.

Hard data confirms that people like infographics. In April 2015, Google reported 62 million searches containing the term, “infographic.” Also, a One Spot report shows that people are 30% more likely to read an infographic than just text alone. Furthermore, infographics are easy to share—they are flashy, and thus like eye-magnets.

If you want to make infographics for your own social media sites, check out these pages: Slideshare, Piktochart, Google Fonts, Visual.ly, Infogr.am.

See Unspoken for more on infographic benefits!