Sep 09
16
With Now 300 Million Users, Should Facebook Qualify for a seat in the United Nations
Errata: It's been
pointed out to me that Facebook just passed the three hundred million user mark
and not the four hundred million. – Which obviously indicates early signs of
dementia perhaps, on my part. – Hat-tip to David Goldstein from Link.
Facebook has done more for détente and political stability
than any other single group of individuals.
It has attracted 400
300 million users.
The Applications have encouraged perfect strangers to extend
trust and comradeship in the pursuance of a common goal.
It has given those users a platform to express themselves
freely.
My own collection of P2P statistics shows that less users
are on the P2Pnetworks every day.
It would appear that Facebook games and other social interaction
applications are the new Media choice for the masses.
Which kind of make sense.
The average run of a TV show is between 13 and 22 episodes a
year.
The average Facebook game rises to prominence, achieves saturation
and then declines over a four to six month period.
With 200,000 applications and over 20,000 developers, Facebook
is rubbing shoulders with Warner, Fox, Disney and Universal.
It’s eyeball numbers have already exceeded all of the US
Television Network audiences and will next impact cinema attendance.
Advertisers would do well to recognise the eventuality that increased
Facebook utilisation will force them to transfer their focus from direct
product based advertorial to sponsorship based trademark and brand development.
So it would appear that we have gone full circle to return
to the advertising meme of the early Television years, except with a new
transmission platform; Facebook.
The Facebook Top 60 applications changes on a daily basis.
Hardware and network restrictions automatically apply brakes
to the continued rapid growth on an hourly basis which is in fact a self
limiting environmental censorship that creates new opportunities for the
smaller application developers.
Here’s the Top sixty Apps – As at Midnight last night……
Yep, that's 89 million per day with a monthly users total for only the top 60 applications of 547,440,423.
Thats a lot of people with a common purpose. To be entertained in a socially enjoyable environment and not be bludgeoned to death with editorial opinion or advertising.
We’ll try keep on top of this – as much as possible and show
the differences in the applications and attempt to identify the memes in the
coming weeks.
Conclusion:
Facebook is killing traditional media.
Facebook is killing P2P.
References:
http://statistics.allfacebook.com/