Jan 19 2011Faceybooks: The Informational Graphic
Note: That's nowhere near the whole thing, Click HERE to see it all.
This is an informational graphic all about the Faceybooks, which I basically only use anymore to update the Geekologie Fan Page and bitch & whine via status-update (UGH -- I CAN'T STAND PEOPLE WHO _______, GOD!). Needless to say, this thing has gotten a whole lot bigger than any of us expected and must be stopped -- at any cost. Unless that cost is actually anything out-of-pocket, in which case forget it. SKYNET will do the all heavy lifting in not too long anyways. And by then, my friends, I already plan on being halfway to Alpha Centauri too drunk to care. I SAID FIGHT YOUR OWN DAMN WAR -- DO I LOOK LIKE JOHN MARSTON TO YOU?! "Uh GW -- don't you mean John Connor?" *pretending to swing lasso*
Image of the Day: is Facebook taking over our lives? [dvice]
Thanks to Jason C., who's still clinging to Myspace like a sinking ship. Hell yeah -- Titanic that shit, son!
Reader Comments
1. Jim Jim - January 19, 2011 1:41 PM
Bruce Wasserstein love his facebook. 03/04 is the best day of the year.
2. ciao - January 19, 2011 1:41 PM
Lol, I don't even have a Facebook. Thank Goodness
3. c'mon! - January 19, 2011 1:44 PM
GW -- accept my "in a relationship with" request!!!!
4. ciao - January 19, 2011 2:00 PM
Se avessi un account Facebook, vorrei colpire tutti.
5. Jermy - January 19, 2011 2:12 PM
facebook is old, my_____ is where its at!
6. Avi - January 19, 2011 2:29 PM
DRUGS is a band...
7. Louis - January 19, 2011 2:43 PM
They also have ONE pair of shoes
Louis of http://aprettyage.blogspot.com/
8. Harkonnen - January 19, 2011 2:49 PM
OMG, I hate FB. If I didn't have family on there I would so drop my account.
My gf is on that effing site like she's getting paid for it or something.
No joke, it drives me nuts.
9. Ed - January 19, 2011 3:24 PM
Facebook has truly enhanced all our lives, except me I don't have one.
10. Melmacs Revenge - January 19, 2011 3:31 PM
Goes to show that Facebook has raped the minds of millions completely stupid. If Facebook ever shut down even for a day I bet half the people with an account would hang their selves and the other half would finally go outside and maybe communicate with a real human being for the first time in months. Social networks has made people anti-social.
11. k - January 19, 2011 3:47 PM
@Avi: you beat me to it hahaha
12. Robot - January 19, 2011 3:53 PM
This infographic would be impressive if it were true, but it isn't.
Not only are the statistics questionable, but it says nothing about it's methodology other than it collected all the data from onlineschools.org which doesn't look like a polling firm to me.
13. McFeely Smackup - January 19, 2011 3:56 PM
There are NOT 500 million "active" facebook users. That's an outright falshood, and an unfortunately common one from the web industry. That's a number of TOTAL accounts registered...from day 1 to now, never mind if 99% haven't been logged into more than once, or ever.
10% active would be about normal for the total number of accounts. and I'd bet that an average days unique visitors is much smaller than that.
and I'm basing that on the fact that I don't have a facebook account, so why would anyone else find it interesting.
14. TheManInBlack - January 19, 2011 4:21 PM
@Robot
You said what I was thinking the whole time, while reading through that. They make up for not having "sources" with some nice graphic design and sadly, far too many people will assume these numbers are accurate. Anytime somebody throws around ridiculous statistics like that and doesn't immediately put a source note underneath it, it's auto-bullshit until proven otherwise, in my mind.
I would imagine one or two of the claims is maybe close to actually facebook data, but the rest of these are purely fabricated, 'estimated' by a monkey, or taken from a small, extremely homogeneous subset of people... like the 9 people who work part-time at onlineschools.org.
As for "Facebook", "Facebook login" and "Facebook.com" being three of the top five searches last year? Clearly, this is not from Google, the most well known and widely respected source of search claims such as these. Perhaps when they say 'searched', they actually mean 'accidentally typed into the Facebook search box. Or maybe they are only talking about the top five searches made by one specific user, on his work computer, from the hours of 11:30 to 5:30.
15. I dont buy it - January 19, 2011 6:16 PM
Oh right, there are no open relationships on facebook. Eff you informational graphics writer.
16. Jester - January 19, 2011 6:25 PM
I need to post this on Facesbook. Quick.
17. Jester - January 19, 2011 6:26 PM
Jeff Likes this infographic.
(this is sarcsasm BTW)
18. Leonidas - January 20, 2011 11:45 AM
I just found a stray black sheep on my farm!!!!!!!1