{"id":6912,"date":"2013-05-03T14:05:14","date_gmt":"2013-05-03T12:05:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/?p=6912"},"modified":"2013-05-09T11:17:57","modified_gmt":"2013-05-09T09:17:57","slug":"the-growth-of-facebook","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/?p=6912","title":{"rendered":"The Growth of Facebook"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What you see here is the <a href=\"http:\/\/finance.yahoo.com\/news\/number-active-users-facebook-over-230449748.html\">user growth of Facebook<\/a>. \u00a0I wanted to share this graph because this is how the biggest internet property of our times grew. \u00a0It is interesting that it looks more like a linear graph than an exponential graph. \u00a0It is steep, but it is steady. \u00a0We know that that growth will not continue as there are around 2 billion people on the Internet, and Facebook is not allowed in some huge countries like China. \u00a0So in not too long, that curve will start flattening. \u00a0Therefore, when you make your projections make sure they are but a fraction of this growth curve!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/files\/2013\/05\/Facebook-User-Growth-4.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-6925 aligncenter\" alt=\"Facebook User Growth (4)\" src=\"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/files\/2013\/05\/Facebook-User-Growth-4-653x1024.png\" width=\"457\" height=\"717\" srcset=\"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/files\/2013\/05\/Facebook-User-Growth-4-653x1024.png 653w, https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/files\/2013\/05\/Facebook-User-Growth-4-319x500.png 319w, https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/files\/2013\/05\/Facebook-User-Growth-4-300x470.png 300w, https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/files\/2013\/05\/Facebook-User-Growth-4-382x600.png 382w, https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/files\/2013\/05\/Facebook-User-Growth-4.png 700w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 457px) 100vw, 457px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div id=\"mainphotoarea\"><\/div><div class=\"theme-buttons\"><div class=\"fb-like\" data-href=\"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/?p=6912\" data-send=\"false\" data-layout=\"box_count\" data-width=\"71\" data-show-faces=\"false\" data-font=\"arial\" data-locale=\"en_US\"><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What you see here is the user growth of Facebook. \u00a0I wanted to share this graph because this is how the biggest internet property of our times grew. \u00a0It is interesting that it looks more like a linear graph than an exponential graph. \u00a0It is steep, but it is steady. \u00a0We know that that growth [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3142,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6912"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3142"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6912"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6912\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6926,"href":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6912\/revisions\/6926"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6912"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6912"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6912"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}