Re: Redbooks

Yes, that's absolutely true. And therefore all of these numbers need to be taken with grain of salt. But, I don't think it changes my point: Which is that there's an enormous amount of people. Even if 10% of the accounts are duplicates, it's still an enormous amount of people.

But my real point was: no matter how big it is, it's not even close to a majority.



On 9/21/2012 1:00 AM, Norm Dennis wrote:

Sorry for the off topic response.

Just on the Facebook volume of users, these days there are many companies
utilising Facebook for a variety of reasons.
That artificially inflates the person user numbers, not to mention that
there are a vast numbers of fake and duplicate user numbers.

I am not a great fan of FB but I have an account and I have 'test' account
(no friends) that I can use to test the security and visibility on my normal
accounts.
I also have an account for my company.
Three accounts for myself.
I don't believe I am the only one with multiple accounts, which would
suggest that the numbers are artificially inflated to some extent.


Norm Dennis

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Subject: Re: Redbooks

Facebook has a little less than 1 billion users. That's a pretty impressive
number... If Facebook were a country, it'd be the 3rd largest country on
the planet.

But, even so, it means that 5/6 of the world are not using it.


On 9/20/2012 9:05 PM, franz400 wrote:

perhaps I'm the only one on the list not a registered Facebook user.

This is the 2nd survey in 2 days I tried to respond to that was users
FB only..

1st it was a security requirement of a customer to not have
connections to social sites...
Later my kids said "Nooooooooo!".
I guess FB has become the one & only...
Jim

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