One year look @ Facebook Growth #Canada
{ April 28th, 2008 }
As a follow up to the posts that I did a year ago I wanted to look at the growth of the Canadian Networks in Facebook. I wasn’t really sure what I was going to see, aside from my gut telling me that there are alot of Canucks on Facebook.
If you weren’t sure if the social web was catching on ….these numbers are going to astound you.  These are very impressive numbers for adoption of anything. I guess if you are in the Canadian market you might want to be looking at this and wondering “is this going to help me or hurt me?” and/or “how can i do something here?”Â
So here it is ….Â
Here are the numbers. This is a visual so if you want the actual spreadsheet here it is.
So what are you going to do with these numbers ? Reconsider your stance on social media? Look at the money you are spending on a publically funded portal projects? Wonder if you should be on? Figure out how to leverage the networks? Build apps for your Canadian Customers ? Spend your advertising dollars differently ? Something interesting to watch.Â
Cheers,Â
ScottÂ
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previous postsÂ
Canada is all  FaceBook! Big time.
Canada is all about Facebook. Big Time : The redux
The 3 month look at Facebook growth in Canada
4 months of FaceBook growth in Canada
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April 29th, 2008 at 8:36 am
Amazing growth! Thanks for tracking these numbers over a year, Scott.
May 1st, 2008 at 7:34 am
Chris,
It is interesting to see how this is growing. I know there are lots of people that haven’t associated to a network. So there is no accounting for them.
May 1st, 2008 at 8:13 am
I’m a member of three different networks – college, university, and city. I wouldn’t be surprised if a lot of students were part of two different city networks and a college or university network.
May 1st, 2008 at 8:40 am
You can only be part of one regional network.
cheers
scott
May 1st, 2008 at 9:36 am
Great numbers. I am curious how you were actually able to capture and verify these numbers? Are you just querying facebook itself?
-mike.
May 1st, 2008 at 9:59 am
Ah, my bad. Thanks Scott.
May 1st, 2008 at 10:29 am
@ michael dundas
I gathered these numbers by doing network searches for the cities that I had looked at previously. Facebook is quite protective about specific information.
By searching the network I was able to grab the network size and compare to the numbers I had before.
Scientific? …perhaps not …..best I could do with the tools at my disposal?….definitely.
cheers
scott
May 1st, 2008 at 11:29 am
Are those Kitchener numbers just Kitchener or Kitchener + Waterloo? Because if you’re going by “Network”, there are separate Kitchener and Waterloo networks, and you could kinda consolidate the two…
May 1st, 2008 at 12:23 pm
Fantastic stats Scott – thank’s for sharing!
May 1st, 2008 at 12:40 pm
Members: 28,828
Friends: 8
Type: College
Location: Waterloo, ON
Waterloo is school network vs a regional network. It may be operating as a regional network however technically it is not a regional network. I only looked at the regional networks that I had data for from the 2007 networks.
Are you part of this network ? I am wondering if you can be part of this network and part of a regional network.
thanks for pointing it out.
cheers
scott
May 2nd, 2008 at 8:01 am
Hi
what did you use to great the pretty graphs?
L.M.
May 2nd, 2008 at 10:00 am
Hey Lister,
I have had a few emails asking me this same question. So lets look at what I did to make this.
I use a couple of products to make the visuals like this.
Google Spreadsheets> to hold and manage my data online and always available to me
iWork 08 (MAC)> import data and create the nice looking chart …lots of options for exporting data. Save the chart as a .pdf
Illustrator CS3> import pdf from iWork 08 adding additional text and legend information. Export using the “export for web” option ..which exports web maximized graphics.
I am sure there might be an easier way to do this right from iWork … however this route gave me the most control over the graphic.
Hope this helps. I also recommend checking out Presentation Zen by Garr Reynolds. I just go this book on WEdnesday but it is a real good book to help you with maximizing the effectiveness of information you have to present.
Cheers
Scott
May 12th, 2008 at 10:16 pm
This is a little off too. I grew up in Windsor Ontario and it has no city network represented on facebook. Most people I know from there ended up signing up as Detroit MI, as it is geographically the nearest city…
February 13th, 2009 at 9:16 pm
Thanks Scott, the data was handy:
http://alexfrakking.com/2009/02/10/is-canada-facebook-saturated/