Most of you, by now, have heard about facebook in one way or another.  Your co-workers don't stop talking about it or maybe your friends or family members have mentioned it.

It took me a while to warm up to facebook.  After hearing about it for a year or so my wife finally convinced me to sign up. WOW, I didn't know how easy it was to find all my old friends!  Everyone is on facebook, why didn't I sign up earlier!  Within days my friends list went from one friend (my wife) to over 80 friends!  Facebook makes it super easy to connect with old friends with what they call the "Social Graph" which is basically a network of friends that can see users friends and friends of other users friends.

So facebook is big.  But how big?

Here are some statistics:

 - More than 46 million active users

 - More than half of active users return daily and spend an average of 20 minutes on the site.

 - More than 200,000 new registrations per day since Jan. 2007

 - An average of 3% weekly growth since Jan. 2007

 - More than 54 BILLION page views per month

 - More than 14 million photos uploaded daily

The numbers are staggering.  This is another case of a project started in a university that took off in a big way, very fast.  Facebook was not developed by an already huge internet company.  It was started by a few young guys!  I get a kick out of looking at their executive’s page (http://www.facebook.com/press/info.php?execbios).  These young (and by young, I really mean YOUNG) lad's have made something big for them selves!