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Christina Vickers Final Project



Facebook is the world’s largest social network, with more than 900 million users. Mark Zuckerberg founded Facebook in 2004 while he was attending Harvard University. Since 2010 Zuckerberg has been named among the 100 wealthiest and most influential people in the world by Time magazine's Person of the Year, In 2010 a fictionalized account of Zuckerberg creating Facebook while in college and its later start-up phase was made into a movie dramatization, The Social Network. Facebook is even now on Android phone and smart phones so now you are not just stuck to your computer to check out Facebook but now your phones so you will never miss a message again. You can take pictures were you are and put them on your Facebook page instead of having to wait until you get home. Many new smartphones offer access to Facebook services through either their Web browsers or applications. An official Facebook application is available for the operating systems Android, IOS, and web OS. Nokia and Research In Motion both provide Facebook applications for their own mobile devices. More than 425 million active users access Facebook through mobile devices across 200 mobile operators in 60 countries. The social networking site Facebook boasts more than 300 million users worldwide. Its ability to target users who have provided real data about themselves and their interests makes Facebook the ideal platform for marketers, and marketers everywhere recognize the importance of Facebook and are eager to successfully tap Facebook's potential. Facebook is connected with so many apps on the computers and on phones. Like Get Glue, Jelli radio, Foursquare and Pinterst only to name a few of them. They all use give you an option to use your Facebook account to sign up with so you can share and stay connected with your friends on Facebook. Even our word press blogs are connected to our Facebook profiles if we would like to share our blogs with others. Facebook is on almost everything any more from food you buy and school supplies and movies There are always Facebook adds to send you to some type of Facebook page just so you can like their pages. There is so much, you can search for and find on Facebook from famous people to your friends even movie are having their own Facebook pages. Even news station like Fox News and kval news have Facebook pages so you can stay up on the new epically when it comes to Amber Alert when kids go missing you can repost the Alert to help find the kids. You can even send instant massager to your friends who are on line so you can talk back and forth to each other. You can post pictures of you and your family and post comments on your family and your friend’s profiles. Facebook has many games you can chose from to play. Interactive social games developed especially for and similar to it resources by such developers as Zynga and Playdome are very popular these days among those surfers who spend their lifetimes in the web chatting and sharing their ideas and wasting their time entertaining themselves with all available Facebook means. The most popular interactive games as Facebook Farmville Application occupy most of their lives and that is why no wonder developers are interested in creation more profound and interesting amusing games for such pro. The following article will serve as a certain review for the new but still rather popular among games – Zynga’s Roller Coaster Kingdom which a free application everyone can enjoy while playing it.

I strategy labs have been tracking Facebook’s growth since 2007 at the time there were 20 million us users. From 2009 to 2010, there are over 103 million us based users. Key Insights: Facebook’s US user base grew from 42 million to 103 million in 2009. That is a 144.9% growth rate! The 35+ demographic now represents more than 30% of the entire user base. The 55+ audience grew a whopping 922.7% in 2009. Atlanta had the highest growth rate in 2009 at 267.6%



There are 955 million active users on Facebook and not all of them are in their teens or 20s. The fastest growing demographic on the service, for at least the last two years, has been women over 55.And with that in mind; we invite you to meet the delightful Florence Detlor, 101 years young. According to Facebook, she has the distinction of being the service’s oldest user. She is also the oldest person to visit Facebook HQ, where she met with COO Sheryl Sandberg, and Mark Zuckerberg, CEO and founder. Sandberg posted the above picture on her Timeline early Monday, along with the caption: “Honored to meet Florence Detlor, who at 101 years old is the oldest registered Facebook user. Thank you for visiting us Florence!”The photo has garnered more than 5,000 Likes and comments from users with 102 and 103-year-old grandparents, both eyeing Florence’s title. According to her profile, Florence graduated from Occidental College in 1932. She lives in Menlo Park coincidentally enough, where Facebook is now headquartered and is “looking for a good book to read.” She joined Facebook three years ago this month, in August 2009

 





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

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