Fortune has a long article on the rise and history of Facebook and its founder Mark Zuckerberg. The article mostly repeats what has been said in many places, many times before. I found one item, the statistic and graph on the time it took various technologies to reach 150 million users or units sold to be fascinating. While it’s true that Facebook is a free website and the other technologies they cite are items you have to buy, it is still quite amazing how fast Facebook has grown. What took Facebook only 5 years, the same feat took the telephone 89, TV (television) 38, the cellphone 14 and the iPod 7. Even disregarding Facebook it is interesting how each of the successive technologies reached 150 million units sold in approximately half of the amount of years as the previous technology.
Facebook…175 million strong and, Facebook says, growing at the astounding rate of about five million new users a week, making it a rare bright spot in a dismal economy. If Facebook were a country, it would have a population nearly as large as Brazil’s
As a final thought: What will the next technology be and how fast will it reach 150 million?
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very interesting article
good question, i don’t have any idea, but definately got me thinking