Facebook statistics show incredible growth and demographic shifts. Facebook is pulling casual internet users (those who use email, read a few news articles) into the network of active users. Admittedly, I lack stats to support that assertion - I’m just basing it on observation, discussion with Facebook users, and diverse requests I’ve encountered from a different cross-section of society than I typically encounter in my blog/wiki/podcast/whatever conversations.
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George, spot on with the Facebook observation. My LinkedIn account is full of fellow learning professionals. My Facebook account is purely social and has a less IT-focused crowd. They generally started using it at college and have taken it with them to work.
For these people, using the net to keep in touch is just part of life. I asked one of them the other day to mail me if she had news on something. “That’s okay,” she said, “I’ll Facebook you.”
Danah Boyd’s paper on class and the use of social networking is of course, celebrated and well worth reading. I reference in the following post:
http://learningtechnologiesconference.wordpress.com/2007/06/28/hot-theme-05-social-networking-revisited-and-class-in-the-us/
Donald H Taylor
Have anyone seen any statistics about the Facebook’s users in different countries?