Facebook Reaches 200 million Members
April 8th, 2009 • Featured, Internet
Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Facebook, announced today in a blog post that Facebook should see its 200 millionth member join the social network.
Facebook has come an incredibly long way from the small start-up aimed at college students to becoming the most popular social network in the world, overtaking Myspace.com in April 2008.
“We will welcome our 200 millionth active user to Facebook some time today”
said Mark Zuckerberg in a blog post today,
“Growing rapidly to 200 million users is a really good start, but we’ve always known that in order for Facebook to help people represent everything that is happening in their world”
To commemorate the 200 million user milestone, Facebook set-up a page titled “Facebook for Good“. Facebook for Good is a joint effort, combining 16 charities with the everlasting reach of Facebook in order to help change the world by purchasing unique “gifts” for friends on the network.
Despite being incredibly successful on the popularity-front, Facebook has yet to successfully monetise its network, although the Facebook for Good venture has re-introduced a credit system (think micro-transactions) that may well turn into a steady flow of cash.
But currently, I think its safe to say that Facebook needs to start turning something with serious potential, coverage and attraction into a product that generates large streams of revenue annually.
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