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Sunday, January 9, 2011

Is Facebook the new Census?









Facebook has exploded in popularity over the last 3 years with now over 500 million members worldwide, Facebook could end up reaching the billion member mark in a couple of years. Why is this important? With so many people not using traditional ways of being identified, Facebook is providing a fun new way to be a part of America. With about 300 million people counted by the 2010 census living in America most of them are on Facebook the ones who are not will soon be signing up in the near future. People are listing their family members kids on their online profiles. (Sometime their pets to!). The average user has 130 friends and users are spending over 700 billion minutes per month on Facebook expressing their ideas of the world. With about 70% of Facebook users being outside the United States eventually Facebook could be a new world census.

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