Comments on: Facebook Users Up 89% Over Last Year; Demographic Shift

By: Facebook, Linkedin, ASmallWorld: likes and dislikes , 77Lab

Facebook, Linkedin, ASmallWorld: likes and dislikes , 77Lab — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 01:03:41 +0000

[...] is the absolute best for this purpose, and if you read about the growth of Facebook in this article, you will understand how true this all [...]

By: Facebook and MySpace friends, what do they mean? « cmc253’s digital campaigns weblog

Mon, 28 Jul 2008 02:13:10 +0000

[...] to TechCrunch, Facebook users are up 89 percent over last year. And, yes both age groups 25-34 and 35 plus are [...]

By: The Power of Facebook « Musings by Tom Humbarger

The Power of Facebook « Musings by Tom Humbarger — Sun, 27 Jul 2008 00:34:55 +0000

[...] 3 to 4 percent rate compounded weekly and currently has about 38 million members. According to Comscore, Facebook growth is slowing in the 18-24 age categories (38% year over year growth), but exploding [...]

By: Facebook Demographics « Retail Distribution Management

Facebook Demographics « Retail Distribution Management — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 06:43:19 +0000

[...] are on Facebook. It is just under a year old, but this report shows the 25-34 demographic as the fastest growing segment on Facebook. All those first-generation Facebook users [...]

By: Can Baby Boomers Use Facebook for Marketing Their Small Business? » The Baby Boomer Entrepreneur

Wed, 19 Mar 2008 13:55:44 +0000

[...] digging and while I couldn’t find any current numbers, I did discover that in October 2007, 45 percent of Facebook users were over 35 - up from 37 percent in [...]

By: Cogblog

Cogblog — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 15:26:49 +0000

Facebook populations…

I did a quick analysis of the last 30 years of my High School and students/former students participation in Facebook. Here is the graph:

The accumulated 70’s and 80’s graduates only amount to 80 people.
The 90’s graduates are less t…

By: ShinyRed » Blog Archive » 2007 - A year in headlines

ShinyRed » Blog Archive » 2007 - A year in headlines — Fri, 21 Dec 2007 16:55:46 +0000

[...] lay down strict blogging policies June: London 2012 logo sparks debate and ridicule online July: Facebook boom with users up 89% August: Fake Steve Jobs outed September: Wikipedia reaches two million articles October: Microsoft [...]

By: All about Microsoft mobile edition

All about Microsoft mobile edition — Wed, 26 Sep 2007 13:12:39 +0000

[...] Facebook has 26.6 million unique users per month and 15.8 billion page views. There are an estimated 40 million registered Facebook [...]

By: The Psycology of Facebook: why are you hooked? « Carson’s Post

The Psycology of Facebook: why are you hooked? « Carson’s Post — Tue, 25 Sep 2007 13:03:38 +0000

[...] Statistics from TechCrunch’s post: Facebook Users Up 89% Over Last Year; Demographic Shift [...]

By: Scoble Declares “War” on the 20’s

Scoble Declares “War” on the 20’s — Wed, 01 Aug 2007 19:39:01 +0000

[...] 4 years. Now, we got people in their 40’s taking over. Here a picture of from a recent TC report regarding the FB [...]

By: Buzz Lounge

Buzz Lounge — Sat, 28 Jul 2007 23:58:08 +0000

Addicted…

I admit it. I am completely addicted to Facebook. In particular, I love the Scrabulous app, which lets up to four people play Scrabble online. Granted, I am not spending the estimated 190 minutes per day, but I’m not a Gen Y college kid, either. …

By: Techomical

Techomical — Fri, 20 Jul 2007 17:29:38 +0000

Guy Kawasaki’s Facebook Phenomenon …

How do you get your account disabled from Facebook? Guy Kawasaki could answer that question. In a recent post on his blog, he says that his account was disabled for excessive evangelism, but I doubt the Facebook notice read those…

By: July 2 - July 6 : Exclusive Concepts Blog

July 2 - July 6 : Exclusive Concepts Blog — Fri, 20 Jul 2007 15:03:35 +0000

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By: emerge | Facebook så in i Norden

emerge | Facebook så in i Norden — Mon, 16 Jul 2007 18:01:28 +0000

[...] Läs mer på amerikanska TechCrunch. [...]

By: Jarrett

Jarrett — Thu, 12 Jul 2007 00:38:04 +0000

What someone above said about a decrease in college-aged users might be true. Facebook launched near the beginning of my college career in 2004, and it was highly appealing for pretty much every student at the time because it was such a “college” phenomenon. Back then I heard it was open only to some high-tiered colleges, so people in my campus were turned off as soon as Facebook opened up to high schools, and some even back when they were opening to other college campuses. I felt the same too as the years passed by when younger cousins in high school found my now 3-year old Facebook profile documenting my entire college life thus far.

Nevertheless, Facebook opening to the entire world was a great move. I’ve found people around my age in all the different places I’ve moved to, so I assume it’s great for people who immigrated, are Army brats, or the like. Like many others, I am closely watching the demographics + the growth of Facebook because I do believe they are closely related. This generation does have it’s life documented in the growth of the Internet, in my opinion.

By: Who Knows

Who Knows — Sat, 07 Jul 2007 19:07:23 +0000

GigaOM & Agreed are both right. Page views on Social Networks is a meaningless statistic. You can easily configure pages to increase or decrease PGV’s a hell of a lot easier than you can on other basic content sites.

By: Neal

Neal — Sat, 07 Jul 2007 06:16:18 +0000

hmmm - no one has mentioned how comScore looks at ISP accounts information to come up with the age data. Therefore, there #s for 35+ are way higher than what they should be.

By: Yohay

Yohay — Fri, 06 Jul 2007 19:36:15 +0000

GigaOm’s analysis of this data criticizes this data, due to too many clicks that are necessary to deal with friend requests…

By: Sarah

Sarah — Fri, 06 Jul 2007 18:59:35 +0000

I was a Junior at Harvard when Facebook took off. I just turned 25. While ppl in the 25+ range have definitely been flocking to facebook, I’m willing to bet that the change here has more to do w/ people like myself aging into the 25+ category, than anything else.

By: Ranee

Ranee — Fri, 06 Jul 2007 18:54:27 +0000

awesome article.

@randomrat — hey, sorry if you didn’t jump on the social networking bandwagon — is this because nobody wants you on their Top Friends list? cry me a river.

anyway, i think what some of the people have brought up regarding 18-24 year olds getting older is very true.

example: when i was 14, i used to hang out in an AOL chat titled “18-24″ — i’m now 23 years old… and the 18-24 or even 30 yr olds then are most definitely in the 35+ age group… and are actively using myspace, facebook, frienster, whatever

another factor of the growing rate of 35+ year olds on facebook is bc FB is open to anyone, not just college/uni-related. eager and ambitious software developers/companies/vc’s are looking to tap into money-making partnerships—and most likely hope to gain more soc-net credibility by creating profiles… etc. —- example, i work at a company that has created an app for facebook f8 mashup… and well, not all of the guys are exactly… my age

generation y

By: Salvatore Iozzia

Salvatore Iozzia — Fri, 06 Jul 2007 18:03:45 +0000

Interesting stats. The Facebook is growing rapidly.

By: Tom

Tom — Fri, 06 Jul 2007 17:11:03 +0000

In recent weeks and for the last 2 months facebook has grown hugely in the UK . Im 25 and the number of people whom are around my age I know off whom aren’t “Geeks” but have become facebookers and built/spent huge amounts of time on it is incredible.

Boggles my mind.

By: Saar Paamoni

Saar Paamoni — Fri, 06 Jul 2007 17:05:13 +0000

If Facebook is the new MySpace… what will replace facebook?

http://www.myitthings.com/saar.....415101.htm

By: Nick Gonzalez

Nick Gonzalez — Fri, 06 Jul 2007 16:55:43 +0000

Dunno about you, Dave, but this last year’s felt like 5 for me

By: dave mcclure

dave mcclure — Fri, 06 Jul 2007 15:53:01 +0000

@DavidU & AndyMcL: unless most 18-24 year-olds getting older are cloning themselves, i think 100% growth in the last year isn’t explained by cohort aging