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The Facebook Obsession

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the even-my-three-year-old-knows dept.

rabidmuskrat writes "Are we too obsessed with Facebook? With 500 million users and a CNBC story about it, the answer would seem to be yes. PostRandomonium notes the media's obsession with Facebook, and how it impacts their news coverage — in particular, that of CNN. One out of every 13 Earthlings and three out of four Americans is on Facebook, and one out of 26 signs into Facebook on a daily basis."

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  1. Statistics all wrong. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Informative

    Yes, lots of people are on Facebook.

    But a large percentage of the "user accounts" are fake accounts.