So I have been keeping an eye on the Facebook growth within Canada. Impressive to say the least. I decided to go back and look at the numbers one month since I did my original post that looked at the saturation of Facebook across the country. Now I will say that this is not an exact science as a number of people pointed out that they were not in fact from the area that they belonged to. So for Sudbury for example people from surrounding communities could be included in this as I am sure is the case for each of the communities. Aside from going through each network and asking where people live I am not sure how else to distill this.

So what I am instead going to focus on is the growth in each of the networks over the one month since my last post on this issue.

So as soon as we get over the fact that the last column on this is probably skewed due to the centralizing factor. (small centers latching onto larger closer networks) We can look at how the networks have grown based upon their size last month. As you can see the numbers are quite revealing. Canada is gobbling up Facebook in an unheard of manner. This is very impressive and I hope it keeps going.
In fact this was cited by Nico Vera over at Facebook in the blog post entitled “Oh Canada” I grabbed this graphic to illustrate the growth that the Canadian network is enjoying over other country networks. Nico conveys some deep gratitude over the adoption ….thanks Nico.

So what does this mean? Are Canadians more interested in staying in touch? Could it have to do with the large percentage of us that leave our original birthplaces to move to the cities …but want to stay in touch with our friends from home? I am not sure what this means to be quite honest.
What I think we can glean from this is that when something is done right …like face book … there is no limit to where it can go. I plan to keep up with this look at the growth of Facebook and see how far it can go. I am trying to predict what will happen over the summer months … slow down because it is nice out …or speed up because people have a bit more free time …..stay tuned for the june 24th edition.

On another FaceBook note the marketplace is now open for biz and as a test of that I am going to try and sell my car through it. Lets see how effective that will be. From all indications the Marketplace seems to be a great idea and when deployed around the structured trust network I think we have a real winner here. I can only imagine what else they have cooking in the back room over at FB.

Cheers

Scott

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