Now that Facebook is open to the public and open to devlopers, it is gaining 100,000 new users every day; and the other social nets of the world are asking themselves, “shat should we do about it?”
Facebook stats since opening its network:
- New users joining daily has risen form 15,000 to 100,000
- 24 million ACTIVE users
- At this rate, Facebook will have 50 million active users by the end of the year
- 75% of these users will be outside of college (over 24 yrs old)
- 50% of users return to the site daily (next competitor is at 15% daily return visits)
- Facebook serves 40 BILLION page views per month
- Facebook has the leading photo application on the Web (bigger than Photobucket) and the leading event application on the Web (bigger than eVite).
So on the one hand we’ve got MySpace, which was first to market with a massive social net that anyone can use. Facebook counters by building a (initially private) system and bringing it “public” after its culture is firmly established. Now, Facebook is opening up and its applications are spreading across the Web like Wildfire.
Not surprisingly, Linked In, the leader “social net” for business networkers, has seen the handwriting on the wall and decided that it needs to open up too. I Picked up this story from Mashable today (read it)
I really want to discuss “culture” inside social nets…but the time has slipped away from me this morning. It’s time to go to work. Hope to get back to this subject tomorrow…
[...] forced to notice … and react. According to a Mashable post this week (tip o’ the hat to Pat Coyle, once again), LinkedIn—the professional and career networking site, whose focus is [...]