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February 25, 2008

Facebook Is Still Passe

Erick Schonfeld from TechCrunch reported Friday that the four-year honeymoon period with Facebook just might be over.

He bases that assertion on statistics from comScore, a marketing research firm, along with a couple of quasi-descriptive line graphs.

The comScore statistics say that the number of unique visitors has hit a plateau over the last few months in the U.S., and has even dipped a bit in January by 800,000 users.

He goes on to say that Facebook continues to thrive in the rest of the world, where the number of unique visitors increased three percent.

Judging from some of the responses to the post, Martin Weller wasn’t too far off from the truth in some respects.—Hurley Goodall

Posted on Monday February 25, 2008 | Permalink |

Comments

  1. After looking at Facebook, I have to ask myself whether the Internet is serving the purpose for which I invented it…

    — A. Gore    Feb 26, 10:44 AM    #

  2. Gore: you mean communication?

    — YM    Feb 26, 10:57 AM    #

  3. The Internet’s evolution is as indecipherable as the geometry of billowy clouds on a windy day.

    — marci    Feb 26, 02:27 PM    #

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