Comments on: How many people are there on Facebook?

By: Dave

Dave — Sun, 13 Jul 2008 21:54:13 +0000

Thought this may be of interest as to the reasoning of facebook and where it may be backed up? http://www.albumoftheday.com/facebook/

By: Tyler

Tyler — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 17:21:06 +0000

Didnt Facebook start out as a mainly high school and college student user base? You may should your under 18 bracket to show its not a teen fad but really it never was because the majority of people that started using it were college age students. 18-24. So showing the 18+ stat doesnt prove its not a teen fad only that there are a lot of older/young adults on. Just my 2cents worth.

By: John

John — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 17:32:18 +0000

That is some very interesting research you have provided here for the numbers of users.

By: Charlie

Charlie — Sun, 25 Nov 2007 22:05:59 +0000

Facebook is still fairly new so I imagine that a good percentage of these people are still active users. Over time I suspect that a lot of these ‘users’ will become inactive. Myspace still touts the $170m number which clearly isn’t a fair reflection of the actual number of active users.

One interesting thing I’ve found about Facebook is that it is now my only link to certain people. When I left my old work I didn’t bother collecting email addresses from people because I knew that I could contact them through Facebook. I’ve now resorted to looking up people’s email addresses on Facebook and then emailing them.

By: Jon

Jon — Sun, 25 Nov 2007 14:07:32 +0000

Elias,
This is very interesting (and sneaky). Good work!