Facebook closing in on 700 million friends

By on Jun 1, 2011 at 6:18 AM
social June 1, 2011

Facebook continues to be an overwhelmingly dominant force in the social space and according to Facebook stat tracker Socialbreaker, the massive social network is rapidly approaching 700,000,000 users worldwide. Emerging markets are showing the most growth by far, lead by Brazil, which grew by 11.4% in May of this year alone as it added nearly 2 million users. Indonesia added 1.5 million users, the Philippines added 1.3 million and Mexico and Argentina closed out the top-5, adding 1.1 million users each. The U.S. is still the top country in terms of volume of Facebook users with a staggering 149.4 million users, and Indonesia sits at a distant second with 37.9 million according to Socialbreaker. Turkey, the U.K. and India round out the top-5 with 28.9 million, 28.6 million and 26.6 million users, respectively.

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  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_ZX7I3VN423YBFEWTEQOQ5JR5ME Retro

    Good on the foreign country FB membership increases. Maybe now these countries will be less competitive as they waste their time on FB as well.

  • http://twitter.com/RobJae1 Robert J

    socialbaker not Socialbreaker

  • Drew

    As a percentage of polulation there is stands as: US, 48%; UK, 46%; Turkey, 39%; Indonesia, 16%; India 2%.

    Population figures from Wikipedia.

  • Anonymous

    Too crowded for my blood.

  • Booboolala2000

    WalMart.

  • Facespace

    Facebook was cool 5 years ago, when your grandparents weren’t using it.

    • B B

      FB was never cool…there is no reason for it to even exist.  It’s an unneccessary time waster that plays into this generations incessant, ridiculous need to be the center of attention.

      • http://www.twitter.com/wixostrix WixosTrix

        Right… because staying connected with friends and family is unnecessary.  I don’t care about being the center of attention but I do care about building my network, personal and professional, so I use services like Facebook and LinkedIn.  I meet a lot of people and have a lot of interesting conversations.  There will always be people who abuse services like these, but they do serve a purpose for this who use them appropriately.

  • http://profiles.google.com/mikemosh511 Mike Mosher

    How many of these are fake accounts? You know, the ones with the half naked girls for profile pictures that try to friend millions of people? (No, not the sluts from your high school)

    • Michael Scrip

      I don’t get ANY random people trying to add me on Facebook like I did back in the old MySpace days.

      MySpace was a breeding ground for spammers and such.

      I think it’s pretty safe to say that 99% of Facebook members are real users.

  • Joe112

    Facebook is gay.. Thats I dont use it.. Anyone who use it is probably gay also.. Hahaha..

    • Anonymous

      Gay is double posting your comment 2 minutes after the last one.

      • Joe112

        Its still gay..

  • Joe112

    Facebook is gay.. Thats why I dont use it.. Anyone who use it is probably gay also.. Hahaha..

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