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Facebook Usage Hits 16 Billion Minutes a Day
1sockchuck writes "Facebook's 400 million users spend more than 16 billion minutes on the site every day, and view 1 million photos every second. That's prompted massive growth in the social network's infrastructure, which now encompasses more than 60,000 servers. Facebook's Tom Cook discussed how the company's operations team manages that growth in a presentation last week at the O"Reilly Velocity conference (video). The next day at Structure 2010, Facebook Vice President of Operations Jonathan Heiliger said server and chip makers have 'come a long way' in supporting cloud platforms since he bashed them last year."
A Lot of wasted time...
That's a lot of completely wasted time and resources.
Just imagine the fun they could all be having with Pac-Man instead...
Many of us use tabbed browsers on desktops that run 24/7 with a facebook tab open.
People say my sig is the best thing about me.
Is anything interesting (aside from what shows up on Failbook) served up on FB?
Didn't think so.
"There is a way that seems right to a man, but its end is the way of death." Proverbs 16:25 (NKJV)
My usage would be ZERO minutes if it wasn't for those addictive games that make me want to add everyone as a friend...
I have a Facebook account only to be in touch with some friends of mine......and the only "activity" that i see on my page is some smallville, zoo-ville or whatever-ville game post/request. Thank you, but no thank you. I am considering closing my account sooner than later, and i suppose there are a lot other people intending to do same.
I spent 16 billion minutes with your mom. ::does the math:: wait...
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Are those *active* minutes where the user has actually taken some sort of physical action in the last 60 seconds or so or are those just minutes where a browser is connected to Facebook (i.e. their Javascript polling mechanism in place)?
Anyway, looks like I'm an outlier. I log in to Facebook once or twice a week for 5-10 minutes, get rapidly disgusted, and leave. I used to leave Facebook logged in a lot and check it once every hour or two, then I realized it had become too much of a distraction and that when I left it logged in they used my login cookie for all these other unrelated sites on the web to push scarily personal information about what my Facebook-friends were doing on the web, so I blocked all that FB connect BS with Adblock and stopped leaving Facebook logged in when I wasn't actually using it. Realized how much time I was wasting with that crap too.
Dare we ask how much time the average Slashdot user spends here per day?
Rule #1 -- Politics always trumps technology.
"and view 1 million photos every second"
what they mean is
1 million horribly compressed photos every second.
Imagine a Beowulf cluster of these.
well, it's like a car analogy.
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Facebook's 400 million users
Nice word selection. Like "crack user" or "inhalant user".
I tried facebook for 6 months, I really tried hard. Then I evaluated what I got out of it. Which was absolutely nothing. Deleted account.
"Science flies us to the moon. Religion flies us into buildings." - Victor Stenger
Given that Facebook usage is currently 16,000,000,000 minutes per day, and that the average life of a human being is approximately 42,048,000 minutes (60 minutes per hour * 24 hours per day * 365 days per year * 80 years of life on average [est.]), this means Facebook effectively sucks up the time-equivalent of the lives of a bit more than 380 people. Every. Single. Day. FACEBOOK MUST BE STOPPED!!!!1!1!1111oneoneone
I wonder how many of these minutes are spent at work. Consider that 16 billion minutes a day, at US$10 per hour, is just shy of $1 Trillion a year. Has anyone else noticed the correlation between the rise Facebook and the global economic meltdown?
If intelligent life is too complex to evolve on its own, who designed God?
People have lots of free time. Atleast Facebook means they're engaged in communicating with other people.
http://jeremy.zawodny.com/blog/archives/010218.html
Time spent: 16 billion minutes.
Time wasted: All of it
All of that massive parallel computing going on... and despite that, judging by the actions of most Facebook users, it's not even self-aware yet? /sadface
I do not respond to cowards. Especially anonymous ones.
And how is this supposed to be impressive ?
You were probably going for funny (someone decided to mod it informative though), but in that vein:
Sleeping takes lives every day. 6 billion people sleep an average of 8 hours a day, that is 48 billion hours wasted sleeping daily. The average human lifespan in hours (using your numbers): 24 * 365 * 80 = 700,800 hours. This means sleeping effectively sucks up the time-equivalent of the lives of a bit less than 68,500 people.
that's about as much time as I waste reading this website every day too!
Sorry, but what is that in Libraries of Congress per runtime of Gigli?
There are now YoVille gummi bears and brownies. There's a Mafia Wars Slurpee. Farmville ice cream. At your nearby 7-11 now. Really. Each comes with a Secret Code which, when typed into the game, unlocks some game item.
You have to admire Facebook from scaling up from a college photo book. It's also impressive that they can actually make their back end systems work, once you realize what's going on in there.
That's like 960 trillion wasted milliseconds!!!!!
Seriously though, why did they design the milestones for announcements like this in minutes? We never heard about the 250 million hour mark...
Does having a witty signature really indicate normality?
Not sleeping or having very poor sleeping habits result in earlier death and/or a deprived quality of life.
I'd say it's a much better investment than Facebook... But that's just me.
Wow, after 1 year (138700 lives) they deserve a paragraph here : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genocides_in_history
Too bad that's not enough to Godwin this thread though.
They are growing, towards ground...
People eventually wear off it's "originality", or learn few things about Internet outside facebook.com... Get to know skype, MSN.... Maybe even IRC... Also learn a bit about their email (that bit over facebook account confirmation) and how to attach to email... And there goes most of what facebook is for people....
Do not underestimate facebook's pull - facebook is one big incentive for people to start using Internet. After that - it's just matter of time before they grow over it.
http://opencm3.net, http://www.nongnu.org/gm2/
There are only 3600 minutes in a day.
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Sorry, I'm only a 1336 h4x0r.
But theres only 1440 minutes in a day.....how can that be?!?!?!
Isn't it 500 million, like the movie proclaims? Even for Facebook, an approximation of 100 million is quite significant.