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Myspace. Mark Newheiser's Blog - Farmville, Social Gaming, and Addic. Facebook bragged to the public this week that Farmville, a farming sim game hosted on their site, is now more popular than Twitter, with over 26 million daily users and in excess of 69 million monthly users to its name. Farmville's popularity is impressive on a few levels--more people are playing it than World of Warcraft, than ever bought a Wii, and a look at my own Farmville friends list indicates it's seducing players to the joys of gaming who would never even pick up a video game under normal circumstances. Granted, Farmville exists with a very different business model than most video games: you don't pay by the month to play it, you don't even shell out a one-time payment to play: you play for free, and then the game tries to sell you in-game perks and a chance to skip the grind to unlock all of the game's content by spending money rather than time.

You can go up seven levels in your first day, two on your second, but before long you slow down to gaining a level or less a day. Facebook’s Own Statistics Show Content-Sharing Increase, New Sta. Facebook says it now has more than 350 million monthly active users, an increase of 50 million from the 300 million it announced in September. If Facebook were a country, it would now have the 3rd largest population in the world, behind only China and India. The company has also recently updated its official Statistics page with some new details about what all these users are doing on the site. Below, we compare these latest numbers with what the company published in September, and in July.

We benchmark traffic changes for each feature versus Facebook’s overall growth rate, to see if some features are becoming more or less popular versus the overall growth of the site. The point is to try to discern significant changes in Facebook user behavior. But here are some important notes on methodology before we get started. Neither Facebook’s overall traffic updates nor its stats page are updated on a specific schedule. Pages: The stats listed here have changed significantly. Facebook Ranks as Top Social Networking Site in the Majority of. Active Facebook Users By Country - O'Reilly Radar. Since I last posted numbers on Facebook’s user base six week ago, the company has added close to 20 million active users.

I’ve had a few requests for detailed numbers by country so I quickly assembled an update for each of the regions shown above. Among countries with at least a million users, the fastest-growing are Indonesia and the Philippines. According to Alexa, Facebook is now the 2nd most-popular site in Indonesia, displacing Friendster as the country’s leading social network. The company now has close to 13M active users in Asia. For more details, you can view or download regional numbers below: I had to shrink the chart for Europe to fit into the slides, here is larger version of that image: [The equivalent chart for N. Facebook and the Social Dynamics of Privacy. Everyday Sociology Blog: Social Networking Sites and Social Theo. By Karen Sternheimer Are you on Facebook ? Did you respond to the request to post "25 random things" about yourself? I personally don’t have a Facebook page, a “random thing” about me that increasingly places me in the minority.

I’m sure that there are great benefits to having a page on a social networking site, and who knows, maybe someday I will. Facebook, MySpace, and other social networking uses of the internet can dissolve the boundary between our public and private selves. Blog reference, sociologist Erving Goffman's "front stage" and "back stage" concepts have been a useful way to understand social life. The internet in general and social networking sites in particular have blurred the distinction between front and back stage, something that some social theorists would argue is a feature of postmodernity. Some people seem completely comfortable divulging extremely personal information on blogs and home pages. Not everyone wants all of their information freely circulating.

_globalfaces_mar09.pdf (application/pdf-object) Why your Website is Now Just a Facebook Application | Epicenter. Recognizing that not every blogger is also a skilled programmer, Facebook has announced a new collection of widgets that make adding a Facebook login button to your site’s comments box dead simple. There are already widgets for the most popular blogging platforms — WordPress and Movable Type — as well as distributed comment system Disqus. There’s even an experimental Media Wiki plugin. As you would expect the comments you leave on a Facebook Connect enabled website give you the option of publishing them to your Facebook news feed, which means that your website essentially behaves like a Facebook application. The new widgets make it very simple for even non-programmers to use Facebook Connect on their sites, but they also highlight what Facebook Connect is really about — turning your site into a Facebook Application, pulling a portion of it (the comments) into Facebook.

It’s not hard to see the larger goal — turning the entire web into a Facebook application. AppData.com - Facebook Application Metrics. Inside Facebook » Facebook 3Q08 International Growth Report: 17. Facebook 3Q08 International Growth Report: 17 Countries Now With More Than 1 Million Facebook Users Facebook has been growing by leaps and bounds in 2008. In June, Facebook became the largest social network by reach at 132 million uniques, a 35% jump from the end of 2007, according to comScore. Inside Facebook has been gathering per-country data periodically from Facebook’s advertising tools over the last year. Since our last report on Facebook’s international growth in July: Facebook’s user base grew by nearly 25% to 102 million active users. Facebook added nearly 20 million more members during the third quarter, 80% of which came from outside the US.17 countries now have more than 1 million Facebook users: United States, United Kingdom, Canada, Turkey, Chile, France, Australia, Colombia, Venezuela, Italy, Sweden, Denmark, Norway, Spain, Mexico, Hong Kong, and Argentina.

Top 25 Countries on Facebook as of 8 October 2008 Top 40 Fastest Growing Countries on Facebook in 3Q08 (%) The Facebook Project.