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Facebook.com’s Direction is Full Steam Ahead

Nielsen Net Ratings is the bearer of good tidings for Facebook.com. In its latest survey covering the recently concluded month of August, it revealed that Facebook is the top site in terms of generating high traffic among the social networking websites in the United Kingdom. It has successfully edged out MySpace from the number one slot.

The phenomenal growth of Facebook is attributed to the fact that it is no longer restricting the use to colleges in the United States. This allows other interested parties from other countries to access the site. In the United Kingdom alone, the number of unique users has increased from 448,000 to 6,506,000 during the period October 2006 to August 2007. This translates to roughly 991 million minutes spent by all Facebook users within the site in August.

The study revealed that 20% of the web population in the United Kingdom logs in on both Facebook and MySpace. On the average, a Facebook user spends at least 2 hours and 32 minutes browsing through the site in a month.

The strong presence of Facebook can be felt in the United States, Canada and the United Kingdom, its top 3 markets. There are rumors that Microsoft is currently engaged in talks to acquire 5% share in Facebook.

Employers disagree over Facebook use and misuse

The popularity of facebook had caused quite a stir to companies whose employees are logging in to facebook regularly. Some companies ban staff access to facebook because it decreases their productiviy and causes down time and also could cause a risk to information that are confidential.

While some companies ban the access to facebook, there are some that choose to embrace this new online phenomenon. One of these companies is Flight Centre that sees facebook to be quite useful with customer’s consultations. The adoption of Flight Centre came as a surprise to many, including workplace efficient consultant Ms Kathryn Anda.

Ms. Anda believes that employees don’t log in to facebook for work purposes but merely for socializing.

A study by Surfcontrol, an internet filtering company, has found that facebook cost employers a $5 a year lost of productivity in Australia.

Richard Cullen, a spokesman of surfcontrol, said that people spends a lot of time on facebook because it’s highly addictive and instantaneous.

Facebook is a social tool and is used for social activity which is why most companies like Channel Seven, Australian Competition and Consumer Commission ban it completely.

Survey Reveal Interesting Facts about Facebook Users

It seems that most people are willing to give up their privacy privileges in exchange for opportunities concerning dating and building intimate relationships. This can very well explain one of the conclusions arrived at by a study conducted by Pace University in August. The results were released this September and reveal significant matters about online users of social networking websites. The said University surveyed the users of Facebook.com and a similar site, MySpace regarding some privacy protection issues.

Most of the Facebook.com registered users are interested to explore possible relationships online even if it means disclosing their private information. The faith that these users have in this specific website to secure the private data entered therein is quite low, a little more than 5% among those surveyed. At least 85% are more than happy to share their uploaded photos with someone else while an impressive 91% are not afraid to post their personal email address.

Based on the answers to the survey questionnaires, another presumption can be deduced. At least 44% stated that they have met someone online, which implies that an individual is confident enough to take care of oneself without much reliance on the privacy features of Facebook.com.

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