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  Gerrit Eicker 07:53 on 22. July 2010 Permalink | Reply

  Zuckerberg: “As of this morning, 500 million people all around the world are actively using Facebook to stay connected with their friends and the people around them. – This is an important milestone for all of you who have helped spread Facebook around the world. Now a lot more people have the opportunity to stay connected with the people they care about. … Our mission at Facebook is to help make the world more open and connected. Stories like these are examples of that mission and are both humbling and inspiring. I could have never imagined all of the ways people would use Facebook when we were getting started 6 years ago.”

  Facebook stories: “Facebook is all about the individual and collective experiences of you and your friends. It’s filled with hundreds of millions of stories. Which ones inspire you? What’s your Facebook story?”

  TC: “To put it in perspective: it was only five and a half months ago when Facebook celebrated its sixth birthday and hit 400 million active users – about as long as it took them to go from 300 million to 400 million. Does that mean Facebook will grow to 600 million members by the end of the year, or could it possibly be peaking? – Zuckerberg is actually quite confident they’ll hit 1 billion active users at some point – just last month, at the Cannes Lions International Advertising Festival, he argued that it is ‘almost a guarantee that it will happen‘.”

  VB: “The next 500 million will be an altogether different challenge. Facebook is running up against the sheer population limits of potential users in the developed world. To maintain its growth pace, it’s making an aggressive push via mobile phones into emerging markets where millions of people have only just begun to access the web through these devices. Here’s a run-down of its strategy to get to its first billion users.”

  RWW: “Children growing up today don’t remember a time before Facebook – and that’s both scary and fascinating. Future generations will be more and more accepting of sharing their lives on the Internet, which has its obvious pros and cons. At the other end of the spectrum, when my generation grows old and wants to look back on our lives, we won’t need an old crusty photo album. We will simply use whatever popular device at the time that lets us flip through our life’s history as aggregated from decades of social sharing. Facebook has been at the forefront of paving the way for that future. – It has taken 77 months for Facebook to go from 0 to 500 million and the company shows little sign of slowing, even with many leaving the network over privacy issues. The truth is, there is no viable alternative yet, but perhaps Google or those four students from N.Y.U. can change that.”

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