For all you facebook haters: Zuckerberg Makes It Official: Facebook Hits 500 Million Members
This is no surprise to anyone even remotely following the company, but Facebookfounder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg just made things official on the company’s blog: the social network is now 500 million members strong.
According to Zuckerberg, the milestone was hit this morning, which I suspect may be disregarding the exact time just a little.
Either way, Facebook has put together a collection of stories (that page / app is down for me, but is likely being slammed right now) that users have shared with the company, detailing the impact the social network has had on their lives.
In addition, Facebook has put together a photo album with messages of thanks.
Zuckerberg will be making an appearance tonight on ABC’s “World News” in an interview with anchor Diane Sawyer to talk more about the impressive milestone. What, you don’t think going from a couple to half a billion active users in six years counts as an impressive feat?
To put it in perspective: it was only five and a half months ago when Facebook celebrated its sixth birthday and hit 400 million active users – about as long as it took them to go from 300 million to 400 million. Does that mean Facebook will grow to 600 million members by the end of the year, or could it possibly be peaking?
Zuckerberg is actually quite confident they’ll hit 1 billion active users at some point – just last month, at the Cannes Lions International Advertising Festival, he argued that it is “almost a guarantee that it will happen”.
But wait, don’t you all hate Facebook so much you were quitting soon?
I don't hate Facebook. I like it. How many here actually hate/dislike Facebook? It's a useful way to keep in contact with friends & family.
Mike Zuckerberg is the smartest person in earth.
Is he under the crust?
About FB, does anyone else think there is an inverse relationship between how many friends someone has on facebook and how many friends they have in real life
lol that is true, it often comes to my mind when i see who of my facebook friends has 500+ facebook friends...
cool man..now tell him to stop changing the layout and maybe just maybe i'll upgrade my opinion of him from gigantic douche to just a regular douche.
^^^ hahah that
Mark Zuckerberg... as usual 5 % intelligence + 5% hard work + 90% luck
I don't hate Facebook; I hate Zuckerberg. I find this post confirms that inclination, if for no other reason than that the op's s/n is LBJ.
well he would easily have another fucking billion users if China would unblock Facebook.
Whoever creates the "Chinese" version of Facebook is going to be a billionaire like what Robin Li did with Baidu.com. He pretty much straight up copied Google and brought it over to China because he had family connections to the govt
renren.com :)
I used to enjoy Facebook, not I pretty much dislike it. Let me list why:
1) I hate Myspace. I love Facebook. Myspace is where little kids and morons go. Facebook used to be for college kids and professionals. So what do they do? Lets make Facebook even worse than Myspace so now I have to spend 20 minutes sorting through farmville and mafia wars shit.
2) Change. I like change, it forces you to adapt. It is good. Not in Facebooks case. Every time they change the site it blows more and more.
3) Privacy. I realize this is the internet, but Zuckerberg literally rapes privacy. Holy shit.
My facebook is not just bare bones so I can keep in contact with my friends. I get much more use out of LinkedIn.
Facebook Lovers Hate Facebook: http://techcrunch.com/2010/07/20/facebook-survey/
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I like Facebook. It allows me to keep in touch with friends and casual acquaintances. With close friends, I keep in touch via phone and such, but Facebook allows me to keep closer contacts with dozens of people whom otherwise I would hear from once every month.
While I don't keep it at bare minimum, I have opted out of any external website usage of facebook, and every facebook app, and the only things that are viewable for not-friends is basically my profile photo and education history.
I don't like Zuckerberg's idea about privacy. I understand his vision of a flowing info-facebook acting as a collector of your interests and with tight linkages to other websites, but I don't subscribe to it. Therefore for me Facebook is just an enhanced communication device.
I'm not on Facebook. Useless crap.
If I want to keep in touch with friends I send e-mails/I call them. I don't feel the need to lose 20min a day clicking dumb applications to "keep in touch".
Privacy is very important. Anyone wants to contact me can do so through mail. I don't have to hand every piece of laundry for the public to see. And if I have lost contact with old friends from kindergarten thats because they were not worth my time to hang out and keep in touch with.
How many of those 500 million users are phantom user accounts with names like Snardle Chuckston created by uneducated Russian spammers and hackers?
if only China didnt block fb...
People need to remember that facebook users rarely go down. American Airlines has probably also served its 2 Billionth customer. That doesn't mean they're doing well or that they provide great customer service...
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/38324957/ns/technology_and_science-tech_and…
Hate Facebook and wish I'd never signed on. Removed everything remotely personal that was up on my profile. It's for stalkers and attention whores largely.
Ding! Ding! Ding!
Regards
I like it. You have to admire Zuckerburg's vision... the guy was offered like 8 million after a years work on the project (back in like 05 or something), and he declined. He knew how big this thing is. FB gets tons of hate everywhere I go. But after you read this article you'll go to the top of the page and see the like button. And then you'll see the big fb logo in the top right corner. And then you'll see a like on every other thread. Oh, and on every other legitimate website. Try escaping this behemoth, you cannot. FB is here to stay.
is there even 1 billion people with internet access?
Can't believe how quick we are to forget multiple account users, a proper spammer will have hundreds.
Also, the real question is, "how will he actually monetize to anything better then the $2.5 billion he was offered?".
Yeah, there are some cool things about it, but I go back to a time when Friendster was the hottest thing going...
Fizzle fizzle...easy come, easy go...
^^^^I agree. It's easy to get to the top. The challenge is staying there. With that being said, Zuckerberg is a year younger than I and at least half a Billion richer, so he's doing something right. Of course a filthy rich 27 year old is going to have haters. I'd be more worried if he didn't have criticism and people suing him for $.
Facebook is what you make it and that's what I like about it. I use it to keep in touch but don't have anything personal or incriminating on my page.
Off topic... but does anyone know how to delete a friend on Linked In? I tried for 20 minutes and can't find the button. Or is this not possible...?
Do 1 Billion people even have daily access to the internet? Prob not.
quick google search: http://www.internetworldstats.com/stats.htm
Look, I don't want to get into a whole debate about this. I'm not sure if a lot of you older guys use facebook regularly or what. I'm still in college, and trust me, compared to other things I've seen, facebook is not some fad. This isn't beanie babies or pokemon cards. This is a real value-add product. It might not have a great revenue stream. But the site is big, and enduring. I do not know a single person at my college without a facebook. Let me repeat that: of all the people I know at my school (I do know a lot of people, you wouldn't find me on a wall street forum if I wasn't a people person), all of them have a facebook. People use it for everything: keeping in touch, planning events, posting articles, etc. And the site is now so intertwined with the rest of the web, its impossible to visit a web page that is not within the reach of facebook. Perhaps it is an age thing, or perhaps I'm just young and don't know shit about fads, but I've never seen anything like this. Saying facebook is a fad is the equivalent of saying that email is a fad.
Anyone who complains about getting farmville/annoying app updates on the news feed needs to learn to use the "Hide" function that shows up when you mouseover the top right corner of the post. I literally have not seen Farmville/Mafia Wars bullshit in about a year.
http://www.businessinsider.com/facebook-is-not-worth-33000000000-2010-9
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