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."

Comments

Re:No we don't.

[Anonymous Coward]

I just run a bot which watches all pictures on facebook to screw up their statistics.
And then I laugh: "ha-ha! Where is your statistical interpretation now! Ha!Ha!"

Re:wow...

[boneclinkz]

Are you telling me that finally answering the question "which Jersey Shore character are you?", via 106-question interactive quiz, is somehow a waste of time?

Some of us are working on a legacy to pass along, you know. When you great-great-grandchildren look at their mother and ask "mom, was great-great-granddad more like Mike 'The Situation' or D.J. Pauly D?" will she have an answer? Or will she have to look down at her feet in shame and whisper "I don't know."?

Re:What a waste...

[JustOK]

and if you ever find something that is important, do let us know.

Re:What a waste...

[numbski]

This is quickly turning into a time-wasting recursion loop. We're now doing math *on Slashdot* on the amount of time people spending wasting time on Facebook.

The only thing missing here is for this to be on idle.slashdot.org, not tech.slashdot.org. :P

Economic impact

[nickovs]

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?