Facebook Hits 100M Users!

Posted By: Bob Buskirk on August 30th, 2008
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Wow I thought having 2000 users on a website was an accomplishment, but can you even imagine 100 million! That is just crazy! I can’t imagine how hard it is to manage all the data for all of those users, not to mention scale the site that has that many users. I really was not even aware that Facebook hit 100 million users until I saw a thing for a free 100M gift on my main page. Go see if the gift is still available, you are only allowed to give it to 1 person though.

I remember when I was in college and everyone saying, “I’ll Myspace you!”. Now it seems everyone is saying, “I’ll Facebook you!”. Since I first found out about Facebook I liked it a lot more than Myspace. It had that clean look, you could find people you were going to school with or went to school with and most importantly there were none of the errors that were all over Myspace.

At the beginning Facebook was only limited to College’s but in September of 2006 it was opened up to everyone over the age of 13. That is when the user base really started to take off as you can see from the graph below.

In the fall of 2007 Facebook was signing up over 1 million users a week! That’s 200,000 daily!! Talk about growth! We all also remember when Microsoft bought 1.6 percent of Facebook for $240 million! That meant Facebook was valued at over $15 billion making them the 5th most valuable US internet company!

Congrats on 100 million users Facebook! If you haven’t already add me on Facebook.

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5 Responses to “Facebook Hits 100M Users!”

Garden Furniture said on September 1st, 2008 at 6:58 am

If you really take a look at it, Facebook is a pile of poo but that wouldn’t mean that I would’ve said no to owning it!

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Neil Duckett said on September 1st, 2008 at 8:34 pm

Facebook is great, a fantastic way of keeping uptodate with friends all over the world, maybe that’s what Garden Furniture is lacking and therefore doesn’t see the value.

Myspace is a trashy looking site for kids with too many b-grade distractions.

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Garrett Mincin said on September 2nd, 2008 at 1:49 pm

Facebook is ok; the next big thing will be a client side application similar to AIM but for social networking. I heard they’re going to call it ThinkSocial ==/

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Rachelle said on September 3rd, 2008 at 12:28 am

100M is fantastic. Facebook is one of my favorite social networking.

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ms danielle said on September 3rd, 2008 at 2:13 pm

dang that would be comparable to like 1/3 of the entire US population. crazy.

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