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Most Facebook Users Out of College

by Kaiser Hwang on February 9, 2009 at 08:15 AM

For a site that began as a student project at Harvard, and later expanded to only college students before fully opening its doors to the public, it's pretty ironic that the majority of Facebook's users are older than the 18-24 year old demographic. To give you some context, during the four weeks ending January 26, 2008, 42-percent of Facebook users were between 18-24 years old. In that same time period this year, that percentage dropped to 24-percent.

So what's going on here? Well, as Silicon Alley Insider notes, Facebook users are aging with the site. Also, opening registration to the public had a huge impact on its growth. And then there's the fact that social networkers migrated from other sites like MySpace and Friendster. The fact is, every little change can have a chain reaction effect on Facebook's growth. Now at an estimated 160 million users, the question is, how will Facebook make money from it all? [From: Silicon Alley Insider]

Tags: facebook, social networking, social-networking, SocialNetworking

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