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According to the results of a quick Google search, Trump lost a maximum of 11,230 followers from his high of 55,287,639, a grand total of 0.02%.

Eyeballs my friend. Eyeballs.

Even though companies complain about ROI (which is a valid argument) it is still an extremely effective way of connecting to consumers. This is not going away any time soon. They are at ~450 million mobile users. Mobile commerce is exploding.

It's great to push people to your blog/website from Facebook but if it's mirroring your website's content you can connect with your users (read:customers) via 1 or 2 clicks instead of 12. You choose the 1 or 2-click method, always.

The actual problem for FB is that 1.6 billion shares could be dumped by insiders in the next several months. I don't expect it to happen, but a bunch will. But, but, but... didn't they only sell 421 million shares at the IPO. Yeah, but, insiders have been granted 1.6 billion shares beforehand. See http://www.usatoday.com/money/perfi/columnist/krantz/story/2012-05-25/facebook-insider-lockup-period/55208546/1

> The onslaught of Facebook stock looks like an avalanche. At the 91-day point after
> the IPO, insiders are able to sell 268 million shares of stock. Between 91 and
> 181 days after the IPO, insiders can sell an additional 137 million shares. And
> then after 181 days following the IPO, another 1.2 billion shares are free to be sold.

I don't think that every insider will cash out (e.g. Mark Z wants to retain control) but obviously a bunch of "paper millionaires" will want to get out while the getting out is still good. For a country-by-country breakdown of Facebook's numbers, over various timeranges, check out http://www.socialbakers.com/facebook-statistics/?interval=last-month#chart-intervals

I remember reading that the Philippines was suppose to be connected in the first version of the APG, but later was removed because of funding or political issues in the Philippines. My memory is a bit fuzzy though, so go google it.

But, on the same vein, I was also wondering why Indonesia was not connected... seeing as it's the 4th largest country in the world and the 4th largest number of facebook users (per country). http://www.socialbakers.com/facebook-statistics/

> In the U.S. I live in, practically everyone and their grandmom is on Facebook.

According to http://www.socialbakers.com/facebook-statistics/ the number of Facebook ***ACCOUNTS*** corresponds to 50.72% of the US population. That includes...
* all the under-13 kids who lie about their ages http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/03/23/facebook-underage-users_n_839437.html
* all the people who have a squeaky-clean "employment friendly" account plus a "real account"
* all the people who have multiple accounts for Farmville. Apparently the game requires friends to do stuff for you, which is why people get annoying requests from friends playing the game.
* ever seen the ads on underground forums, selling "Likes" from 10,000 USA Facebook accounts? The only way they can deliver is by having these thousands of fake accounts under their control.

In a country with over 300 million population, all these fake accounts may only take the number up from a real 40% to a fake 50%. In much smaller countries, the fake accounts stick out like a sore thumb. At the same URL as above, Monaco shows up with 124.31% of its population on Facebook. I treat the 901 million number like an EPA gas milage estimate... always exagerated.

> So your solution is don't use social media and you won't have to hide it - even
> though as I said that will not work because they will rightly assume
> you're probably lying (it is simply not the common case),

[...deletia...]

> The end point of this is that almost everyone now uses social media

Wrong. Check out http://www.socialbakers.com/facebook-statistics/ Most English-speaking countries are at approx 50% of the population. As of the time of posting...

* USA 50.72%
* UK 49.63%
* Canada 53.39%
* Australia 51.48%
* New Zealand 51.40%

That's number of accounts divided by population. Stuff that isn't supposed to happen, but does...
* children under 13 with accounts; they merely lie about their age
* people with multiple accounts. E.g. a squeaky-clean one for their employer, and a "real account" under a different name, and multiple accounts to rig Farmville, etc.
* There aren't supposed to be a bunch of bot-accounts, but you can go out and buy 1,000 or 5,000 or 10,000 "Likes". What does that tell you?

Normally, these bogus accounts can hide in the background. But for small countries it really stands out. Note that Monaco has accounts for 124.31% of its population. Don't believe the 900 million crap you hear.

BTW. I'm not on Facebook.
Wonder why I don't trust Zuckerberg?
It's because I'm not a dumb fuck

http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2010/09/20/100920fa_fact_vargas?currentPage=all

Facebook doesn't give a hoot about your privacy, it only cares about its own bottom line. If employers keep demanding passwords, it will hurt Facebook in two ways...

1) People will "clean up" their FB pages and info, to make them more job-friendly. Telling lies in their info will make targetted advertising less effective. E.g. gays will list themselves as heterosexual and end up receiving ads for Playboy.

2) Some people will decide to delete their accounts altogether, or simply not join. Fewer members means fewer eyeballs for FB to sell to advertisers.

BTW, you are *NOT* a freak if you don't have an FB account. See http://www.socialbakers.com/facebook-statistics/ for statistics by country. English-speaking countries (US/Canada/UK/NZ/Australia) run around 50% penetration. That's number of accounts versus population, so the numbers are likely inflated. Remember that...

a) some people have multiple accounts to help out Farmville scores. Also a "clean" job-friendly account and a "real" account

b) sites like Freelancer.com have people buying+selling 5,000 or 10,000 "Likes". That means that some outfits have thousands of fake accounts they use for this purpose. It may not be very noticable in large countries. But in Monaco, the number of accounts is over 122% of the popolation... including infants, children under 13, and pensioners who don't know how to run a computer. Obviously inflated.

> Or wait, are you one of these special snowflakes who don't have a Facebook account?

85% of the planet doesn't have a Facebook account. Even the US is only around 50%. And that includes all the people who have multiple accounts to play Farmville with, or keep snoopy employers out of their private lives. The real number is probably below 50%. You can check their statistics at http://www.socialbakers.com/facebook-statistics/?interval=last-week#chart-intervals

> Because if you're not one of those weird kinds of socially fucked up morons,
> there's really no reason not to have a Facebook account that has to do
> with either privacy, family or employment.

Shut up Mr. Zuckerberg.

Ever heard of Cardinal Richelieu? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cardinal_Richelieu There's a quote that's variously attributed to either him or one of his henchmen. It goes like so...
"Give me six lines written by the most honorable of men, and I will find an excuse in them to hang him."

All it takes is for one sarcastic remark or inside joke to be misinterpreted, and you can end up being refused admission to university, turned down for a job, fired from work, or arrested. It's not worth the risk.

No, you're the one that has it backwards.

For one Facebook is not just a US service.
They have an office in Hamburg.
They have www.facebook.de registered. this is a German owned TLD.
They have 21,880,080 German Users

If i were to start selling greeting cards full of anthrax which i shipped to your country, would you just decide that people in your country should not use my greeting card service?