Facebook More Popular than eBay, Wikipedia, and U.S.
It's only been a couple of days since Facebook revealed that it had topped 350 million users -- exceeding the population of the United States. But that wasn't the end of the shocking statistics about Facebook usage. While speaking to journalists at the social network's U.K. headquarters, Facebook revealed that its 350 million members were producing 200 billion page views per month and uploading 2.5 billion photos (about 1,000 per second).Facebook has become so huge that even some of its applications are drawing more traffic than many major Web sites. For instance, the addictive (and annoying) online game 'FarmVille' boasts 69 million players -- making it more popular than Twitter.
The stats place Facebook firmly in the top five most heavily trafficked Web sites. Its exact placement, and estimated unique visitors per month vary depending on whether you trust Alexa, Nielsen, or Compete (or in our case, none-of-the-above). But what is clear is that Facebook now draws almost as many visitors as Yahoo!, more than eBay or Wikipedia, and is gaining on the reigning king, Google.
Will Facebook every surpass Google? Not likely. But what it may miss in quantity it makes up in quality -- according to Nielsen, visitors to Facebook spend twice as much time there as viewers of Google. [From: TechRadar, Via: Download Squad]
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Trudy L. Jackson said 6:47PM on 12-06-2009
I don't play Farmville, but I think the most annoying game is Farkle. It is all luck and no skill and makes me crazy.
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geneskillet500 said 8:31PM on 12-06-2009
farmville rocks btw!!
tfallison said 8:31PM on 12-06-2009
Trudy, I agree about Farkle. It messed up constantly on me. I play FarmVille and I find the people on Facebook act a little more "grown up" than the people I meet on MySpace. They are all time wasters though. What ever happened to good old fashioned SUNSHINE!?
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RYAN said 8:34PM on 12-06-2009
If it werent for my wife Id have no idea what face book even was......Ive seen her looking at it and there were some photos and little comments but that about it.To same Im not interested its about like me a full grown man loving peter pan or something.She says this and that about it from time to time but I know I just dont get it at all,like its meaningless as hell to me...good luck to face book or whatever its called...........
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joleea3 said 9:04PM on 12-06-2009
I like to play math marbles on fb. It drives me crazy because my mind does not work fast enough to advance in the game., but I keep trying.
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jon said 9:52PM on 12-06-2009
Ive had a Facebook page for about a year and a half. I havent been on it in about 7 months. Its a waste of time. Go outside and do something productive rather than sitting at the PC and getting fat as a pig. No wonder why Americans are getting fatter and fatter. Soon our cars will begin to be made to fit fat people with larger seats and doors. Its disgusting.
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nanny2sophia said 11:27PM on 12-06-2009
To Jon: I've been using Facebook for almost a year, playing Farmville and quite a few other games, in that time I've lost 26 lbs. Also, haven't you heard of wireless internet? I sit outside in the sun with my laptop playing these games therefore your theory of a fat blob indoors is incorrect! Through these games I've got in touch with a college friend, also the husband of my best friend (from school 40 years ago) and the brother of someone else I went to school with, and my brother's ex girlfriend of 26 years ago, so I think they have served me well.
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Jackie said 12:28AM on 12-14-2009
What I love about facebook is I reconnected with a lot of my childhood friends that I hadn't talked to or seen in over 35 years...with some of them it seems like it was only last month...Yes, I play the games and they are very addictive.. I get mad at myself..I can be doing so much more but for some reason, I am drawn to them and waste so much time..but it can be fun sometimes..
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MAW said 11:55PM on 12-06-2009
totototototo001 And you are going to stay lonely. Hopefuly.
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otrpu said 12:44AM on 12-07-2009
Never been to facebook, prolly never will
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