So this week I've found a TON of statistics! There's actually quite a few good stats on the actual facebook site before you log in. I even made a graph with the information I found, but for some reason it's not letting me put it in this post. In December 2004, facebook just reached the 1 million active users mark and in July 2010, it had over 500 million active users. Almost all the information I've found has pertained to facebook, saying as how it is the largest social networking site. Two interesting facts I found interesting were the average facebook user has 130 friends and about 70% of facebook users don't live in the United States. I also found a lot of information about how social networking sites are a big way of advertising for companies. One article I found was published on Friday, it said that social networking sites have "Reached Their Saturation Point" and users are not going to be as easy to get engaged with companies/products. I haven't been successful in finding information about social networking giving a new meaning to the word "friend" yet. Also, I'm hoping to watch that movie about Mark Zuckerberg and Facebook, it sounds interesting.
I hope you've all been finding some good information about your trends! :)
~Monika :)
Your paper sounds really awesome. I wanna read it :)
ReplyDelete70% outside the U.S. -- that's really surprising to me, too!
ReplyDeleteThe Mark Zuckerberg movie is fascinating -- is it out on dvd yet?
You're accumulating some great facts. Pursuing the "meaning of friend" angle may require searching some psychology or sociology databases and/or interviews and surveys. . .