My Dad now has a Group on Facebook.
Tuesday, March 10th, 2009Talk about an inverse generation gap when it comes to technology! Not only is my dad on Facebook now, probably spending way more time on a social network than I would bother to, but he’s also beaten me to creating a Facebook group. Not that I was in any such race, but it is anecdotal evidence of the amazing reach that Facebook is commanding around the globe. If you know my Dad, it wouldn’t be too hard to guess his group has something to do with Maritime Shipping.
Social networks are successfully adding (active) members from demographics that, until recently, were not even considered a target market. Facebook, of course, is quickly headed towards becoming the 800 pound gorilla in this domain with an estimated 175 million profiles (and growing). That is about 1 in 34 people on the planet, which is pretty impressive for a website that has only been around for around 5 years, even if you discount for the number of inactive and duplicate profiles.
Facebook maintains general statistics on their press page, if you would like some more numbers.
