Ram all used up?

So about a month ago, i started noticing that all of my ram was used up. I have 8 GB, and i have like 1% available at all time.
I today decided to format my 256 SSD harddrive, and reinstall Mavericks - and i then installed "Memory Clean" from App Store, and it tells me the same. As soon as i launch the program, it tells me i have about 10-300 MB Memory available.
What can this be? I'd rather try and fix this problem my self, as the nearest authorised Apple store is a very far away.
The computer can actually be used pretty normally, but as soon as i launch Netflix, Youtube videos in full screen etc. it just starts lagging really bad.
Programs open when i took the screenshots were Mail, iTunes, Chrome, Calender and Notes.. Nothing else
It looks like Google Chrome is taking up a ton of activity on my computer - what can it be?
After re-installing my computer, i restored all my Chrome extensions, bookmarks etc.
EDIT: I just tried closing chrome and it immidieatly gave me more GB. So what do i have to clean out in Chrome? Right now i have Chrome open with hthis forum, and i still got like +3GB available..

From what I read, this is normal for Mav OS. Just because it is using this ram, doesn't mean it isn't free to be allocated somewhere else.
Mav uses ram better than any other Mac OS previous. It does however appear to allways run you low on ram but in fact, its the opposite. It pumps ram into the apps you currently have open becuase it knows you will be swapping back and forth.
Once you open another program, tab in chrome, etc the allocation will be there. Mavericks now has a memory compression feature that will compress the memory occupied by applications that aren't being actively used and give the freed up RAM to the application that needs it the most. The result is a much more responsive system and less memory being dumped to a swap file to the HDD which is what reduces the performance of your Mac.
http://www.apple.com/osx/advanced-technologies/
Resources:
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/5470580?tstart=0
https://discussions.apple.com/message/23749393#23749393
http://arstechnica.com/apple/2013/10/os-x-10-9/17/#compressed-memory

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