Wednesday, July 23, 2008

2% of the world now on Facebook

Facebook's unique views for this month equate to over 2% of the world's population. Somehow, TechCrunch failed to note the figure framed in such a way. Just think, over the entire world, 1 in 50 people spent time in facebook this month. When you consider those stubborn people you know who won't join (not to mention a ton of parents and older folks who haven't been encouraged to join), the third world countries who have bigger problems to solve like worrying about clean water (though some of them do have internet access in one form or another), and all of the language barriers involved (though Facebook's translation efforts are pretty neat), it's amazing.

We can only hope Facebook uses the great power it has for good and not evil.

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