But I've only recently joined the hottest not-so-new-anymore Internet website - Facebook.com, an online social networking tool allowing personal picture download and importations from Blogger-sites like Xanga and Blogspot.
It's been growing like wildfire over the past three years and no sign of stopping - Facebook's next goal is to become a general portal like Yahoo.
It has over 30 million registered users worldwide, the 7th most visited
site in the US, with the average user spending about 19 minutes/day on the site. It has been a shamefully addictive experience for me - I've found old school buddies and mates from the past, people I've not seen for 7-10 years. It's fantastic.Within the first week, I've found more than 30 old friends.
Some interesting facts on Facebook:
- It started as a Harvard initiative, gradually being expanded to all Ivy League schools and then to the US University community.
- Within their first 10 months in existence, more than a million users joined.
- More than 8.5 million photos are downloaded daily, making it the number one ranked Photo-site, ahead of Flickr.
- 14 months old and founder, Mark Zuckerburg raised $12.7 million in venture capital.
- Both Yahoo and Google have made offers of more than $2 billion for the site's acquisition.
- There are legal actions pending against Facebook and data mining has been expresses as a concern. Police are monitoring the site for information regarding planned criminal acts posted by users.
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