Facebook surpasses about 1/7 of the world's population in users
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[quote]Facebook now has more than one billion people using it every month, the company has said.
The passing of the milestone was announced by founder Mark Zuckerberg on US television on Thursday.
The company said that those billion users were to date responsible for 1.13 trillion "likes", 219 billion photos and 17 billion location check-ins.
The site, which was launched in 2004, is now looking towards emerging markets to build its user base further.
"If you're reading this: thank you for giving me and my little team the honor of serving you," Mr Zuckerberg wrote in a status update.
"Helping a billion people connect is amazing, humbling and by far the thing I am most proud of in my life."
Statistics released to coincide with the announcement revealed there were now 600 million users accessing the site via a mobile device - up 48 million from 552 million in June this year.
Since its early beginnings at Harvard University, Facebook users have befriended each other 140.3 billion times.
Sustained growth is seen as crucial if Facebook is to maintain its value - the company has seen its share price drop to about $22 (£17) from a starting price of $38.
Investors will expect the company to look at ways to make more from the users it already has as well as seeking to attract new users in areas of the world where it does not yet dominate.
"For Facebook the main challenge is not just to grow in terms of numbers, but more importantly to deepen and enrich engagements," said Eden Zoller, principal analyst at tech research firm Ovum.
TV chat show
Although the service is by far the world's biggest social network, there are key areas, such as China and Russia, where local competitors still remain the online networking tool of choice.
Last month, Mr Zuckerberg visited Moscow, where he made his first TV chat show appearance, as well as a highly publicised meeting with the Prime Minister, Dmitry Medvedev.
It was a public-relations exercise designed to unsettle VKontakte - a network that boasts in excess of 100 million members, compared with Facebook's seven million, in the country.
In the same trip, Mr Zuckerberg made a "surprise" visit to one of the company's arranged hack-a-thons to meet local developers.
Other trips include to China, where the company said it was busy "watching and learning" from other internet firms.
Google, which launched in China in 2005, faced fierce criticism when it agreed to allow censorship of search results. It later changed its stance, and now directs all of its traffic through its Hong Kong-based site.
Success for Facebook in China would mean unseating RenRen (more than 30 million users) and possibly the Twitter-like service Sina Weibo (more than 300 million users).[/quote]
This is just a half of the article, the other half is in the source.
[url=http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-19816709]Source[/url]
[QUOTE=Flicky;37912110]This is just a half of the article, the other two thirds are in the source[/QUOTE]Hold on...
1/2 article + 2/3 article = 7/6 article.
[QUOTE=Bumbanut;37912211]Hold on...
1/2 article + 2/3 article = 7/6 article.[/QUOTE]
Already fixed that before you posted, before I put ~1/3 in the post but I cut it down a bit.
Yay facebook counts my imaginary profiles as real people!!!
The only thing that would be significant is the amount of ACTIVE users.
Yay, one seventh of the world is inundated with pointless drivel, asinine bullshit, and has every piece of their private info in the hands of multi-billion dollar international corporations hell bent on squeezing every cent they can through a deluge of ads that makes the 2004 tsunami look like a damn ripple.
So glad I'm not on there. There's only so many poorly made demotivators and 'Like dis or die" slacktivism campaigns I can stand.
Considering how there's hundreds of millions of fake accounts that's highly exaggerated
[QUOTE=TestECull;37912448]Yay, one seventh of the world is inundated with pointless drivel, asinine bullshit, and has every piece of their private info in the hands of multi-billion dollar international corporations hell bent on squeezing every cent they can through a deluge of ads that makes the 2004 tsunami look like a damn ripple.
So glad I'm not on there. There's only so many poorly made demotivators and 'Like dis or die" slacktivism campaigns I can stand.[/QUOTE]
wow, jesus christ dude
if you're going to trash talk facebook don't make stupid generalizations about the entire userbase
[QUOTE=leontodd;37912372]The only thing that would be significant is the amount of ACTIVE users.[/QUOTE]
First line in the article "Facebook now has more than one billion people [B]using it every month[/B], the company has said."
[QUOTE=TestECull;37912448]Yay, one seventh of the world is inundated with pointless drivel, asinine bullshit,
So glad I'm not on there. There's only so many poorly made demotivators and 'Like dis or die" slacktivism campaigns I can stand.[/QUOTE]
Sounds like it's your "friends" who are the problem...
I find Facebook really useful and I'm glad it exists.
These are great news.
[QUOTE=Echidna666;37912489]Sounds like it's your "friends" who are the problem...[/QUOTE]
Actually I don't use it for those reasons. I value my privacy and my sanity so I don't have an account. Most of my family does, however, and when I look over their shoulder that's what I see. Everyone's status updates are absolutely asinine bullshit nobody cares enough about to say with real words, but because it's facebook suddenly it's kosher. And then there's Facebook's legendary lack of giving a damn about user's privacy, they sell absolutely everything to anyone willing to toss a few greenbacks their way, which makes me leery to even use a pseudonym.
I see no benefit from Facebook. Only annoyance. It manages to annoy me [i]even when I actively avoid using it[/i]. If it can do that there's no telling how much it would drive me nuts if I actually joined up.
Of course a bunch of idiots are going to rate me dumb and say I have no friends because of this, regardless of how wrong they are. I have plenty of friends. I just choose to keep in touch with them using methods that don't sell my information to every corporation in the world.
[QUOTE=TestECull;37912448]Yay, one seventh of the world is inundated with pointless drivel, asinine bullshit, and has every piece of their private info in the hands of multi-billion dollar international corporations hell bent on squeezing every cent they can through a deluge of ads that makes the 2004 tsunami look like a damn ripple.
So glad I'm not on there. There's only so many poorly made demotivators and 'Like dis or die" slacktivism campaigns I can stand.[/QUOTE]
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[QUOTE=TestECull;37912538]Actually I don't use it for those reasons. I value my privacy and my sanity so I don't have an account. Most of my family does, however, and when I look over their shoulder that's what I see. Everyone's status updates are absolutely asinine bullshit nobody cares enough about to say with real words, but because it's facebook suddenly it's kosher. And then there's Facebook's legendary lack of giving a damn about user's privacy, they sell absolutely everything to anyone willing to toss a few greenbacks their way, which makes me leery to even use a pseudonym.
I see no benefit from Facebook. Only annoyance. It manages to annoy me [i]even when I actively avoid using it[/i]. If it can do that there's no telling how much it would drive me nuts if I actually joined up.
Of course a bunch of idiots are going to rate me dumb and say I have no friends because of this, regardless of how wrong they are. I have plenty of friends. I just choose to keep in touch with them using methods that don't sell my information to every corporation in the world.[/QUOTE]
wow so you hate facebook because your family can't figure out how to filter out bullshit from their news feed
also not saying this is justification for using facebook but if you don't think your information is being sold around the world as we speak...
So how many of those are spam accounts?
[QUOTE=TestECull;37912538]Actually I don't use it for those reasons. I value my privacy and my sanity so I don't have an account. Most of my family does, however, and when I look over their shoulder that's what I see. Everyone's status updates are absolutely asinine bullshit nobody cares enough about to say with real words, but because it's facebook suddenly it's kosher. And then there's Facebook's legendary lack of giving a damn about user's privacy, they sell absolutely everything to anyone willing to toss a few greenbacks their way, which makes me leery to even use a pseudonym.
I see no benefit from Facebook. Only annoyance. It manages to annoy me [I]even when I actively avoid using it[/I]. If it can do that there's no telling how much it would drive me nuts if I actually joined up.
Of course a bunch of idiots are going to rate me dumb and say I have no friends because of this, regardless of how wrong they are. I have plenty of friends. I just choose to keep in touch with them using methods that don't sell my information to every corporation in the world.[/QUOTE]
you don't need to write a college eng 101 essay on why you don't like facebook dude
there's nothing wrong with people using facebook as an electronic commnication medium, don't be a nitpicky sperg about it
[QUOTE=TestECull;37912448]Yay, one seventh of the world is inundated with pointless drivel, asinine bullshit, and has every piece of their private info in the hands of multi-billion dollar international corporations hell bent on squeezing every cent they can through a deluge of ads that makes the 2004 tsunami look like a damn ripple.
So glad I'm not on there. There's only so many poorly made demotivators and 'Like dis or die" slacktivism campaigns I can stand.[/QUOTE]
you just mad cause you don't have any friends.
[QUOTE=TestECull;37912538]Actually I don't use it for those reasons. I value my privacy and my sanity so I don't have an account. Most of my family does, however, and when I look over their shoulder that's what I see. Everyone's status updates are absolutely asinine bullshit nobody cares enough about to say with real words, but because it's facebook suddenly it's kosher. And then there's Facebook's legendary lack of giving a damn about user's privacy, they sell absolutely everything to anyone willing to toss a few greenbacks their way, which makes me leery to even use a pseudonym.
I see no benefit from Facebook. Only annoyance. It manages to annoy me [I]even when I actively avoid using it[/I]. If it can do that there's no telling how much it would drive me nuts if I actually joined up.
Of course a bunch of idiots are going to rate me dumb and say I have no friends because of this, regardless of how wrong they are. I have plenty of friends. I just choose to keep in touch with them using methods that don't sell my information to every corporation in the world.[/QUOTE]
go use friendster silly.
[QUOTE=TestECull;37912538]Actually I don't use it for those reasons. I value my privacy and my sanity so I don't have an account. Most of my family does, however, and when I look over their shoulder that's what I see. Everyone's status updates are absolutely asinine bullshit nobody cares enough about to say with real words, but because it's facebook suddenly it's kosher. And then there's Facebook's legendary lack of giving a damn about user's privacy, they sell absolutely everything to anyone willing to toss a few greenbacks their way, which makes me leery to even use a pseudonym.
I see no benefit from Facebook. Only annoyance. It manages to annoy me [i]even when I actively avoid using it[/i]. If it can do that there's no telling how much it would drive me nuts if I actually joined up.
Of course a bunch of idiots are going to rate me dumb and say I have no friends because of this, regardless of how wrong they are. I have plenty of friends. I just choose to keep in touch with them using methods that don't sell my information to every corporation in the world.[/QUOTE]
i think this is actually because you don't have any friends, the fact that you're being a huge sperg over how you think your details are going to be sold to evil companies leads me to believe this
it's the internet dude, nothing is private
[editline]4th October 2012[/editline]
[QUOTE=SPESSMEHREN;37912617]So how many of those are spam accounts?[/QUOTE]
probably at least a third of them, I get around 2-3 friend requests a week from random indian people with 4 friends
[QUOTE=SPESSMEHREN;37912617]So how many of those are spam accounts?[/QUOTE]
I've heard they've been cracking down on those.
[QUOTE=TestECull;37912538]Actually I don't use it for those reasons. I value my privacy and my sanity so I don't have an account. Most of my family does, however, and when I look over their shoulder that's what I see. Everyone's status updates are absolutely asinine bullshit nobody cares enough about to say with real words, but because it's facebook suddenly it's kosher. And then there's Facebook's legendary lack of giving a damn about user's privacy, they sell absolutely everything to anyone willing to toss a few greenbacks their way, which makes me leery to even use a pseudonym.
I see no benefit from Facebook. Only annoyance. It manages to annoy me [i]even when I actively avoid using it[/i]. If it can do that there's no telling how much it would drive me nuts if I actually joined up.
Of course a bunch of idiots are going to rate me dumb and say I have no friends because of this, regardless of how wrong they are. I have plenty of friends. I just choose to keep in touch with them using methods that don't sell my information to every corporation in the world.[/QUOTE]
Yeah mang what gender I am is so valuable to me. It's not like any other companies do this.
[QUOTE=sp00ks;37912643]you just mad cause you don't have any friends.[/QUOTE]
Is this the standard ironic response to anyone who criticizes Facebook now?
[QUOTE=sixtyten;37913048]Is this the standard ironic response to anyone who criticizes Facebook now?[/QUOTE]
depends on how serious the criticism is
[QUOTE=sixtyten;37913048]Is this the standard ironic response to anyone who criticizes Facebook now?[/QUOTE]
but he's just being massively over-reactive about it in general dude, not offering any valid critique
[QUOTE=Ownederd;37913068]but he's just being massively over-reactive about it in general dude, not offering any valid critique[/QUOTE]
This is Testecull we're talking about, he does this in every FB related thread.
Barge in and spew some stuff about how FB is useless and terrible with a level of tin-foil hat to rival your average conspiracy theorists and how he's actually proud of not having an FB account.
Somewhere out there, Barbra McTits lives on through facebook
[QUOTE=TestECull;37912538]Actually I don't use it for those reasons. I value my privacy and my sanity so I don't have an account.[/QUOTE]
OH NO! A random company knows that a random user likes a random movie!
OH THE HORROR.
[QUOTE=leontodd;37912372]The only thing that would be significant is the amount of ACTIVE users.[/QUOTE]
Sick of assholes not reading the articles, and commenting. -.-'
[QUOTE=TestECull;37912448]Yay, one seventh of the world is inundated with pointless drivel, asinine bullshit, and has every piece of their private info in the hands of multi-billion dollar international corporations hell bent on squeezing every cent they can through a deluge of ads that makes the 2004 tsunami look like a damn ripple.
So glad I'm not on there. There's only so many poorly made demotivators and 'Like dis or die" slacktivism campaigns I can stand.[/QUOTE]
What the fuck are you on about, I don't give enough information for shit to be damaging to me and the lyk tis if u cri erytime shit can be easily filtered by just scrolling your mouse wheel
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