General Growth
• More than 24 million active users
• More than 100,000 new registrations per day since Jan. 2007
• An average of 3 percent weekly growth since Jan. 2007
• Active users have doubled since Facebook expanded registration in Sept. 2006
User Demographics
• Over 47,000 regional, work-related, collegiate, and high school networks
• More than half of Facebook users are outside of college
• The fastest growing demographic is those 25 years old and older
• Maintain 85 percent market share of 4-year U.S. universities

User Engagement
• Sixth-most trafficked site in the United States*
• More than 40 billion page views per month in May 2007
• More than half of active users return daily
• People spend an average of 20 minutes on the site daily*

Applications
• No. 1 photo sharing application on the web*
• Photo application draws more than twice as much traffic as the next three sites combined*
• More than 1.8 billion photos on the site
• More than 6 million active user groups on the site
International Growth
• Canada has the most users outside of the United States, with more than 2.5 million active users
• The U.K. is the third largest country with more than 1.4 million active users
• Remaining Top 10 countries in order of active users (outside of the U.S., Canada and UK): Norway,
Australia, South Africa, Lebanon, Egypt, Sweden and India
*Source: comScore Media Metrix

Via Mashable

Hmm Interesting.  I know it is growing a LOT. I checked my schools group- one week with 367 members, and only 2 weeks later 955 members. It spread like WILDFIRE.

The only thing I disagree with is the average time spent online, I only go on for about 5 minutes 

Its only a matter of time until some poor kid gets stalked or harrassed through Facebook and everyone with shift their focus from "oh cool" to "I knew it would happen". You have to remember that Facebooks demographics are school kids, grant it most of them are college, still to dumb and immature to control themselves.

good point.

I wonder though how long it will be before the tide goes out on facebook and everyone moves to a new social networking site.  From Friendster to Myspace to Facebook (and im sure there were may more in between) it seems that (like nightclubs in the real world) the "cool" place to be seems to change regularly.

Look at it this way - cool people are, by their nature, in the minority. Thus any place/website that becomes cool will first attract this minority, and then the rest of everyone will catch onto the idea because the cool people are all saying how cool it is. Then everyone who's trying to be cool (but isn't) will swarm to the place/site and drastically decrease its coolness quotient.

Then as the novelty fades and the place becomes infested with noobs and losers, the cool people jump ship and find somewhere else to go and be cool

Rinse, and repeat 

yeah, well said Super-King.

So the trick is to get the "cool" people onto something, open the flood gates and then cash out just before all the noobs sign up 

You can keep making money off the hordes of noobs - they are plentiful and a goodly proportion will be stupid enough to think that online advert placements are a good place to look for buying stuff 

The cool minority is good for bringing the wave of noobs in, but probably not that big a market 

It's crazy

TagWorld was fun, haven't visited it in a long time, wonder how that is looking.  The Zooplex is another I found recently.  I think Vox might be able to make a transformation into a Myspace or Facebook type of thing if you don't see it as that already.

Tons of potential, and Myspace just isn't the "cool" thing anymore.  It's just the....... thing with a bunch of stupid advertisements, bots, and popularity junkies.

When I started, i was on myspace every day.  Now i'm lucky if I check it once a week and that is for blog posts from other people.

Myspace had potential, but I see it dying a very very slow death and now the question is, how long before Facebook is aquired for several billions? 

facebook is really good and popular but no one i know has it

facebook is going mainstream right now - per the growth stats; mainly because grown ups are starting to realise facebook is more sophisticated than myspace + it has lots of new funky apps now

but let's face it by the time an old guy like Rupert Murdoch buys something like myspace it is already naff
 
suspect the buzz will move on from facebook in due course as well

24M users? that was so yesterday, FaceBook now has some 32M!

I like MySpace, but I like Facebook better. Why?  Facebook has great applications that can be logged in with blogging service, social media, youtube and many Web 2.0 sites. Also, it has RSS feeds that you can check daily. I dont have to go to every site I logged in. It is in one place.  But MySpace is fun with customizing the look. I wish Facebook can do that too.  Both have advantages and disadvantages. So far, I have used Facebook more than I use MySpace. I can see why Facebook has grown rapidly recently...  However, MySpace is still the largest social network. You never know that Facebook could surpass over MySpace one day...  unless MySpace has new ideas coming in the near future...