Social networking sites up to this point seemed to be either full of Brazilians (Orkut), people trying to get headhunted for a new job (LinkedIn) or 13 year old girls with awful camera phone pictures and a talent for writing with non-alphabetic symbols (Bebo/MySpace). You may have gladly let those pass you by, but if you haven’t joined Facebook already then perhaps it’s time to jump on to its massive wave. For me at least Facebook seems to be somewhat less of a place for meeting new people than restoring a loose link with friends I had almost lost touch with. The statistics on FB are phenomenal – these are from Trendcatching last month:
- 25m users, growing 3% per week, which is 100,000 new users per
day (up from 7.5m users in July 2006), projected to reach 50m by end of
2007 - The fastest growing demographic is the 25 and over age group
- 1% of all time spent on the internet is facebook
- 50% of registered users come back to the site every day.
- 60 billion page views per month, 50 pages per user every day
- 6th most trafficked site in the U.S
- 1 bn photos hosted on the site, 6m uploaded each deay, 70k photos
served per second, making facebook the biggest photo sharing site on
the web - 1-2 m people are on facebook simultaneously at any one time
- $100m per year advertising deal with Microsoft
- Internal valuation of $8bn, based on projected revenues of $1bn p.a. by 2015
If you have already jumped on, let’s reconnect .