Facebook Hits One Billion Active Users

pingwing · 5 Oct 2012 at 01:55

Amazingly it's still worthless!

doofer · 5 Oct 2012 at 01:59

I guess Zuckerberg needed to pull some big numbers out of the hat to try and halt the nose-diving shares in his fad Corporation.

Devrij · 5 Oct 2012 at 07:14

King Damager said:
The maths is weak in this one...

It's quite staggering really. 1 in 7(ish) worldwide.

When you exclude China (banned), it drops to about 1 in 6 (ish)...

Twitter is just a fancy RSS feed. Facebook is something interesting... Also, seriously... Dist how do none of your friends have facebook! See the above stats! xD

kd

Especially when you consider how many of the population don't have access to a pc. I'd like to know the percentage of pc users that use FB. Must be ridiculously high

malfunkshun · 5 Oct 2012 at 07:16

So there must be a couple of hundred million bots on there by now?

4T5 · 5 Oct 2012 at 07:19

Sounds like spin to me just to hold the price of shares.

antijoke · 5 Oct 2012 at 07:23

Is it considered cool to hate Facebook? Or is more jealousy among geeks that they didn't think of it first?

Freefaller · 5 Oct 2012 at 07:37

I have a couple of friends who are on FB but use it twice a year!

I have another couple of friends who are not on it though.

However I have friends and family all around the world, from Canada to Guatemala, to Australia, Cyprus and France. Facebook is just perfect for me to keep in touch with them and still feel partially "involved" in their lives. It's a great tool.

GravyMonster · 5 Oct 2012 at 08:31

darubio said:
I left and deleted my facebook account so they now have 99 Million users.

darubio said:
alrite alrite calm down! 999 Million I meant to put

You're havin' maths problems, I feel bad for you son.

Cosimo · 5 Oct 2012 at 08:33

Redz said:
But on the bright side, it means 6 billion people on this planet still have a life.

elmarko · 5 Oct 2012 at 08:45

anticonscience said:
Is it considered cool to hate Facebook? Or is more jealousy among geeks that they didn't think of it first?

Facebook wasn't the first, just it got lucky & became the popular one.

MickeyFinns · 5 Oct 2012 at 08:47

1 billion accounts != 1 billion people.

I work at a company developing facebook games. Between 20 of us we have hundreds of facebook accounts, and it's the same with most of clients. Whilst we are probably in the minority there are numerous nefarious reasons to have many accounts.

Theophany · 5 Oct 2012 at 08:48

So is Facebook stock worth anything yet?

Charlotte1988 · 5 Oct 2012 at 11:24

Zefan said:
It was quite a lot at its height but before the internet was really really popular. I think as it stands now they have about 8 members. Darubio go and join myspace, then they'll have 1,000,008 members.

grimm · 5 Oct 2012 at 11:28

Probably just a headline for them to try to attract more advertising revenue etc.

I bet over half of those accounts are never used or are duplicate accounts.

Basher · 5 Oct 2012 at 11:29

Theophany said:
So is Facebook stock worth anything yet?

Not really. Active users is only part of the story.

bhavv · 5 Oct 2012 at 11:43

I thought I was terrible at maths but finally I found someone thats worse!

TY OP.

Pawnless Endgame · 5 Oct 2012 at 11:48

MickeyFinns said:
1 billion accounts != 1 billion people.

Exactly. Some people create an account for themselves and another one for their dog / hamster / monkey etc.

elmarko1234 said:
Facebook wasn't the first, just it got lucky & became the popular one.

Yeah, Faceparty was the main one for a bit wasn't it? It shot itself in the foot though by making some of its features paid-only. Then come 2007, everyone was sending each other buddy invites to Facebook.

bhavv · 5 Oct 2012 at 11:50

I thought facebook became popular because it was the one that most uni graduates used to stay in touch with their friends.

One thing that I dont get is people who make facebook pages, and add their entire family and relatives to it .... sad.

MickeyFinns · 5 Oct 2012 at 11:55

bhavv said:
I thought facebook became popular because it was the one that most uni graduates used to stay in touch with their friends.

One thing that I dont get is people who make facebook pages, and add their entire family and relatives to it .... sad.

Why is that sad? It's pretty good as a communication platform and is a reasonably good way of hosting and sharing images.

bhavv · 5 Oct 2012 at 11:57

MickeyFinns said:
Why is that sad? It's pretty good as a communication platform and is a reasonably good way of hosting and sharing images.

Because most people wouldnt like their family seeing their drunken pictures or snooping on all their friends.