According to an upcoming report by EdisonResearch.com, entitled, The Infinite Dial 2011: Navigating Digital Platforms, more than 50% of all Americans ages 12 and older are on Facebook.
The study, fielded in January of 2011, indicates that 51% of all adults 12+ have profiles on Facebook.
“We have been tracking the growth of Facebook since 2008, and have watched it go from 8% usage just three years ago, to 51% today. In our presentation on April 5th you will also see the remarkable year-over-year growth of Facebook users especially among people over age 35, trends on frequency of usage, and the uptake of social networking on mobile phones.”
It may also be worth noting that FaceBook and Twitter NAMES are FREE
Yes, those names are free.
Still, until they can offer a 360 degree commerce solution*, though, their best use is to drive traffic to an external merchant site.
* = coming soon
In my opinion, Facebook is just all around “BAD” for people. You have “Friends” that you never met or will ever really know.
There is a sharing of personal information that (in my opinion) most people do not realize can be used against them. Anything from your full name, where you live, your childrens names, birthdats… so on and so forth.
Personally, I am not on Facebook. Not even for my websites. I dont care for it and refuse to use it. I am looking forward to the day that we move onto the next big thing and leave Facebook behind.
Just my point of view.
Cheers
Personally speaking, I’m open to the possibility that FB may diminish in relevance- Myspace certainly did- but if you walk backwards from today and study the various apps that had staying power in emerging/chaotic spaces, FB has a lot of the same stuff going for it that the other standard-bearers did when they were establishing themselves.
I’m 100% convinced that large-scale use of Twitter is a fad, but FB, I don’t know… I just don’t see what’s going to come along and disrupt what FB has carved out for itself.
LOL.
OK, the day we see ghost server stuff as a factory install on John Q’s new Dell Laptop, maybe I’ll believe it stands a chance in hell of being relevant. Until that time, it’s about as realistic as the altroot gaining traction.
Can’t wait that FB is compromised and FB is down for …one week.
JUNE 8, 2011…
Eventually, you will be here on this blog asking: “Where did everyone go?”
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since this is hosted in Canada ? & IPv4 routes there will be dropped by many…
CANADA
; <> DiG 9.2.4 <> http://www.thedomains.com any
;; global options: printcmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 14901
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 0
;; QUESTION SECTION:
;www.thedomains.com. IN ANY
;; ANSWER SECTION:
http://www.thedomains.com. 57886 IN A 216.220.39.8
;; Query time: 14 msec
;; SERVER: 13942.14648.04.14#53
;; WHEN: Wed Mar 30 14:58:30 2011
;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 52
[Querying whois.arin.net]
[Redirected to rwhois.q9.net:4321]
[Querying rwhois.q9.net]
[rwhois.q9.net]
%rwhois V-1.5:000080:00 Q9 Networks RWhois
network:Class-Name:network
network:Auth-Area:216.220.39.0/27
network:Network-Name:216-220-39-0-WWMI
network:IP-Network:216.220.39.0/27
network:Org-Name:Worldwide Media Inc
network:Street-Address:218 Queens Quay West, Suite 1412
network:City:Toronto
network:State:ON
network:Postal-Code:M5J 2Y6
network:Country-Code:CA
network:Tech-Contact:Adam Matuzich;adam@mostwanteddomains.com;+1 +1.4169770049
network:Updated:20090526
confirmed…FOG is not easy for people to understand.
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You apparently didn’t .GET what I was .SAYING, but that’s .OK.
It’s going to take a generation before users understand the ramifications of being so open on Facebook.
It’s when the kids start to say, “My mom and dad were so dumb they just signed up to Facebook and gave away all their life’s info!” to their friends and these friends sit around laughing at this notion is when the shift will have happened.
@Slate
“You have “Friends” that you never met or will ever really know.”
Speak for yourself. The only people on my Facebook list are people that I know personally (ie. family, friends i grew up with). No one is forcing you to add people to your list that you don’t know.
“More Than 50% Of American (Over 12) Are Now On Facebook”
Not me. And I will never use it. Cant stand the idea of it.
Speaking of FREE Names
There was a big announcement today for the .CA – CAlifornia FREE domains with Hosting
A famous SEO company is behind it
I love this …everyday- every second there is more and more BS craps on the internet.
Internet Crap Overload
@ Shaun
You may be part of the minority and in reality, most people will “Friend” people that they never actually met.
I personally do not use FaceBook. I would much rather interface with someone in person or via the phone.
I will send emails if I can not get hold of someone that I need to contact if all other methods have failed.
Personally, it is my opinion that a site like Facebook is not needed. You can accomplish everything you get from FaceBook… 1) in person, 2) over the phone, 3) via email, 4) your own website.
I have personal websites that are not open to the public except my family and or true friends. I do not need nor do I want friends of friends asking for invites. Complete strangers asking for invites. Strange requests for game invites… so on and so forth.
These are just my opinions and my own thoughts on Facebook. Its not for me or my immediate family. That is not saying that I have extended family members who do not participate. I have seen what goes on through extended family members and the work environment. I will pass… its not for me.
Cheers and all the best
and some believe that Facebook could someday be **THE** web with nearly nothing else outside it
“There was a big announcement today for the .CA – CAlifornia FREE domains with Hosting”
??????????
and .CAnada agrees?
there is a better marketing strategy to sell more domains and compete with the .com market
just sell (e.g.) .CO at $3 each, .INFO at $1 each, etc.
Big Lie
Yes thedomains is hosted in Canada.
“Yes thedomains is hosted in Canada.”
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Did you ever get a SOA RR set up ?
Some (modern) DNS resolvers will not ignore a missing SOA.
FaceBook Announces Business Pages (Hosting?)
://www.fastcompany.com/1743800/user-profiles-can-become-pages-on-facebook-here-come-your-business-fans
Could FREE FaceBook names become FREE “Domain Names” ?
://www.facebook.com/jon.postel
If you want to talk about juicy, Paul Ceglia has filed an amended lawsuit against Mark Zuckerberg and Facebook claiming that Ceglia owned 50% of the “project” that became Facebook back in 2004 that has merit, according to a major law firm, DLA Piper– who has “examined the evidence and decided to represent Ceglia. One of the few things lawyers get disciplined for, one corporate attorney told us, is encouraging clients to fabricate evidence (or knowingly using fabricated evidence).”
Sounds pretty convincing to me! Oh-oh Facebook! Mark Zuckerberg lied to Facebook, which in turn lied to investors about ownership, if this lawsuit has merit!
reading the emails is amusing. ceglia thinks zuckerberg spent his $1K payments on beer and chips. i think he spent it on some hardware to accomodate the increased traffic to the web site he built by scraping harvard’s student profiles.
he finds some poor chap on craigslist wanting to build another stupid website, writes the framework and then never delivers it to him after he figures out it’s actually going to be useful… after he adds every student’s photo and some provocative line about relationship status. zuckerberg was actually dumb enough to ask ceglia if he could use the code for something else.
the winklevoss twins had only an oral agmt with no payments, correct? and they got $60 million?
ceglia has a signed agmt with definite terms. payments were made. work was completed.
i doubt this will make it to trial. i think ceglia is going to be very glad he went with zuckerberg as his web developer.
bring on the computer forensics “experts”!
cha-ching!
one of the articles says when zuckerberg launched facebook at harvard he signed up 1,200 students in 24 hrs. knowing someone’s putting your photo and those of other students on a website, “hotornot style”, that other students outside your dorm could view, would probably be a compelling “invitation”.
how could any student ignore that email?
another question is how did he have 1,200 email addresses to send out invitations in the first place? the reporters say he broke into the school’s servers.
then there’s the issue of sending out mass unsolicited emails. what is spam anyway?
the university excused him for all this. and the harvard student newspaper let him off pretty easy.
he has been very lucky. maybe his luck is about to change.