What Social Media teaches us:Facebook Shows 145% Growth in 1 Year

Almost 3 years from now, Facebook has a mere 20 million U.S. users.  Today, over 103 million Americans use Facebook, let alone the big number of its users world-wide. The following is a graph showing the growth rates of various user bases in Facebook from 1/4/2009 to 1/4/2010. All data comes directly from Facebook’s Social Ads system.

While I was appalled by this incredible growth of a social networking site, I realized it was not just a web site or service that got popular and successful. Social media sites are changing everyday life. They change the way we talk, study, work, and live. This change should wake up all those traditional marketers and businessmen that the old-fashioned sales and marketing are not working exclusively now. There are better tools, and they need to learn how to use them. I believe what we learn in this world will help our future. I also got to understand this when I watched Desperate Housewives Season 5. Tom Scavo was interviewing for a job when the interviewer guy asked him if he was experienced in marketing though twittering. Tom felt devastated by the fact that he was old and left behind by the times. I hope we won't. 


Source: Istrategylabs. http://www.istrategylabs.com/2010/01/facebook-demographics-and-statistics-report-2010-145-growth-in-1-year/