Facebook is set to pass another milestone, according to an unofficial statistics portal. Socialbakers, reports that Facebook membership is steaming towards the 700 million mark. With estimates of 655 million in April, How long will it be before the social network site reaches 1 billion active users?Socialbakers also tracks and compares countries membership growth, Brazil experienced the largest increase in May 2011 at 1.9 million. With Brazil's total membership figure at 19 million, this represents a 11.37% increase from the previous month. Indonesia and India both appear in the top 6, with both countries having around 30 million users as well as 4% growth of membership in May. These figures are important as Facebook previously has never been able to crack these large countries, where social networking rival's Orkut, have a large presence.
The UK holds the 10th spot with a 2% growth in membership, however The USA didn't even make the top 20 list. This is unsurprising as its estimated that 96% of all Americans under the age of 50 have a Facebook account. Additionally a recent poll showed that 63% of Americans under 30 were able to identify Facebook's founder Mark Zuckerberg, and only 21% for the speaker of the House of Representatives, John Boehner.
Pixel, a photo sharing social network, site expects that Facebook will be hosting over 100 Billion photos by the end of the summer, with the current rate of uploads being at 6 Billion per month. To put that into perspective, dedicated photo sharing sites such as Flickr and Photobucket hold each in total what Facebook receive per month.
Earlier today, The Washington Post blog pointed out that if Facebook was a country it would be the third largest in the world. Though, is the world enough for Facebook?
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