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Facebook Overtakes MySpace as Most Popular Social Networking Site

by Lee Bains on January 27, 2009 at 03:35 PM


At year-end (2008), Internet traffic figures file into newsrooms, social networking site Facebook stands victorious over its peers, according to BizJournals.com.

Undergoing a growth spurt of 127-percent over the course of 2008, Facebook finally overtook social networking giant MySpace by drawing 222 million users to Facebook.com in December. Facebook's first month to beat out MySpace was last April.

Not limited to the social networking arena, Facebook's success is impressive even in the most general category; Facebook.com registered as the Internet's seventh most popular destination in December, trailing only Web giants Google, Microsoft, Yahoo, AOL, Wikipedia and eBay.

Let's just hope that Facebook can learn a lesson from MySpace and implement stronger security; few things chase away business like spammers and scammers. [From: BizJournals]

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