Facebook Bantering

Facebook has become popular at nearly lightening speed. In April the user numbers were tallied up to two million. It's August and the numbers have sky rocketed to 250 million......

I could be completely wrong, but most people that open a facebook account have the first intention of checking out who all they can reconnect with from differenct life chapters. The hungry eyes and fingers search anxiously adding new names and faces that fortunately recognize them. For every name added to the friendlist there is yet another listed opportunity to find so many more. The cyber social market increases in the spider affect for every new FB friend.

As the weeks and months continue into this new addiction, bantering of different religious and political views begin. News events [i.e. Michael Jackson's death] spread faster than wild fire...accompanied with varying views of who the man everyone thought he really was or was not.

The 2008 election was the first of Obama supporters and anti-Obama bantering. The freedom of speech and opinion quickly diminish when out-of-control slinging takes place. We revisited the political bantering when it was announced that Obama would be speaking to students via the television.

Facebook is basically mass email on steroids with the average user having 120 friends on the site, more than 5 billion minutes spent on Facebook each day (worldwide), more than 30 million users updating their statuses at least once each day, some are ridiculously addicted to updating their status every hour of their waking moment to every several minutes simly because they can't fid anything else productive to spend their time in; more than 8 million users becoming fans of pages each day, that number will grow as more subjects and objects are created for passionation facebookers to be fans of; more than 1 billion photos uploaded to the site each month, many like to "impress" as their photos turn into brag albums of their spouse and children [yes, I'm delightfully guilty]; more than 10 million videos uploaded each month, it's amazing to find how many like to play with video edicting software and are actually really good at it; more than 1 billion pieces of content (web links, news stories, blog posts, notes, photos, etc.) shared each week, typically accompanied with varying comments or pleas of involvement; more than 2.5 million events created each month; more than 45 million active user groups exist on the Facebook.

It's also mobile communication on steriods with more than 65 million active users currently accessing Facebook through their mobile devices [Yes, I'm one of the "lucky" million]. People that use Facebook on their mobile devices are almost 50% more active on Facebook than non-mobile users. That's so easy to do as Fbookers galavant running errands, visit people, take vacations...etc. All such things are viewed as required status update data. Guess what Fbookers? ..... There are more than 180 mobile operators in 60 countries working to deploy and promote Facebook mobile products!!!

There are very FEW that will deactivate their account because they've grown tired of the cyber social gathering...on steriods. They're probably the smartest and wisest for not allowing themselves to be facebook distracted from the reality within their own corner of the world. Their minds can live in peace away from the over social stimulation that most Facebook users are too addicted to let go. To those of you that have.....you truly deserve a reward....