Facebook Hits 250 Million Members
Source: Tom's Guide US | Keywords: Facebook, Members, 250, Million | Themes: The Internet, Business
MySpace might still be alive and kicking, but these days there's only one social network on the block and that's Facebook.
Well, this week Facebook hit a huge milestone in users. Just three months after it announced that it had reached 200 million users, Facebook announced that it now has a quarter of a billion registered members.
CEO and founder, Mark Zuckerberg said in a statement yesterday that growing to 250 million users wasn't just an impressive number to the company:
"Each person who joins makes Facebook better by adding a presence to the site that friends and family can connect with and feel closer to. For us, growing to 250 million users isn't just an impressive number; it is a mark of how many personal connections all of you have made, and how far we at Facebook have to go to extend the power of connection to the billions of people around the world."
Over the last few months there's been a huge increase in the amount of older people joining Facebook. Of course, anyone under the age of about 30 is almost guaranteed to have a profile but parents and grandparents? Not so much. Facebook says that the fastest growing demographic is those aged 35 years old and older. There's even a website to help kids who have a parent, aunt, uncle or grandparent have joined Facebook. You can check it out here.
Any readers who don't have a Facebook? Let us know!
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...Many barrels of cash are being delivered to my house as we speak.
Last year MySpace, this year Facebook... next year: who knows?
Social Networking sites seem to have a short shelf life.
I have a Facebook account... it's cool to hear back from old friends, but it's annoying when a couple people who are addicts post a million times a day about how they flushed their toilet or took some assenine quiz that looks like it was made by a thousand monkeys typing randomly for about 2 minutes.
Also, their security configuration needs to be improved and it also needs to get a LOT more user friendly.
yeah but i bet 50 million of those accounts are spammers, fake celebrities, or second accounts.
Trade real-life friends for the unwanted ones you ditched years ago. Facebook, reuniting people with those they wished they had forgotten.
facebook ? i prefer to go to the neighborhood park and make friends there..
Forget "social networking". I'm still in contact with (remember phones? face-to-face conversation?) anybody that I actually give two flying f**ks about in this world.
Facebook > Twitter but still nothing beats real life. Going out there and meeting somebody, that's what it's all about. It's funny to see some people's only fame is found on their myspace pages.
[citation]Facebook Hits 250 Million Members [/citation]
So that explains why Facebook is so slow!!!
Sometimes I make temporary myspace accounts for music downloads, but nothing that lasts, or on facebook!
lol @ bin1127
The only social network I joined was bebo about 3.5 years ago. I haven't loged on in months. I have no interest in Facebook or anything of the likes.
That's alot of damn people. I'm still not one of them.
I turned 31 last week, I guess that is why.
I'd delete my account just because I hate seeing people get rich from selling personal information. But it actually does provide a useful service.
"Facebook Hits 250 Million Members"
hit them with what? a base ball bat? another security whole and personal data theft? or are they skipping the middle man and just hitting them with more terms and conditions that let the sell everyones personal info to everyone else.
not that that would be a big deal, as most idiots on facebook freely release their personal info to everyone anyway.
Now I feel that Facebook has grown too large and has lost the original point - simple, fast, effective communication.
Case in point - it now takes about 5 seconds to load my home page on my university network, and it takes a lot of CPU resource to render the page as well. I still remember Facebook back in 2007 when it was a simple platform, and it loaded in a second, any page.
Needless to say I really miss the old days. If a new social networking site comes up I will join that instead.
i don't like their latest GUI yet i rather facebook than myspace which usually has spam mail and invites, and also has the feature that allow users to render their own page unreadable/usable.
i got 18 friends on facebook and 18 friends in real life. it's a great way to throw up messages. (i hate texting on a phone!!!) i can do without the one-handed self-taken pictures (let me hold the damn camera for you and smile!)
I don't have one, nor do I ever plan on getting one.
Fuck social networking.
News sites and open forums FTW!
Anyways, I prefer to be completely anonomous, something which Facebook dislikes (and bans for).