According to USA Today, Facebook.com signed up its 500,000,000 member this week.
I know its a lot of zeros but Facebook.com now has 500 Million members.
For those keeping track that is up from about 100 million members just two years ago.
Facebook added 100 million new members since just February 2010.
On an average day 115 million “friendships” are confirmed, members post about 400,000 events.
About 70% of Facebook’s users now live outside of the United States, with the Middle East, Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, India and Brazil becoming some of the fastest growing regions.
So based on USA Today’s figures if 70% of Facebook users live outside the US that means 30% of 500 Million, or 150 million live in the US.
As of 2009 the estimated population of the US is 309 million meaning that almost 1 out of every 2 people, that would be every man, woman and child as they always say has a FaceBook account.
Pretty impressive stuff.
FOX must be hating that…their 500+M investment of MySpace is sinking everyday.
If each user is valued at just $4.00, then $2 billion give or take.
Guys, do you think there is space for new social network website ?
Or it’s hard now because facebook out there?
I have profile (dot) com domain name, don’t know what is the best use for this name, free dating website like plentyoffish or social network website?
I’m HAPPY for Facebook..The person who is celebrating this the most is, Paul Ceglia of NY. Who is claiming 80% of Facebook’s stocks 🙂
This is awesome and somewhat predictable. Facebook has completely changed the manner in which we look at social networking. I suppose this can cause concern for growing too big, too fast but I suppose we will have to wait and see what happens next.
The fact that Facebook began the way it did, and now has an incredible following is truly something to celebrate, whether you like Facebook or not.
For many though, this truly could mean some bad news. Many people have boycotted Facebook simply due to the incredible amount of security risks involved.