Comments on: The aggregate flatness of Facebook

By: James Rogers

James Rogers — Tue, 03 Jan 2012 05:41:00 +0000

The graph for Brazil reflects my anecdotal experience. My mother is Brazilian, and I’ve noticed that many of my Brazilian relatives and friends have joined Facebook over the last 18 months or so.

By: M. Möhling

M. Möhling — Mon, 02 Jan 2012 22:52:55 +0000

In Germany facebook's main local competitor, studivz.net, seems to go bust this year, loosing it's customers to fb. Here's an article on studivz's problems from May 2010. studivz is (was?) for university students only, friends and relatives not allowed, and they didn't offer apps until recently. Soon all our bases are belong to Mr Zuckerberg, sigh. Fb get's heckled a lot on security issues by the government, though, should be part Anti-Americanism, part regular Euro-paranoia, as we don't trust our citizens to keep their private parts private, if I may say so. However, checking google trends, studivz's loss can only account for some of fb's gains.

By: Dallas

Dallas — Mon, 02 Jan 2012 17:03:48 +0000

My girlfriend is Brazilian. We met in February and back then she told me how all of her friends used orkut instead of facebook. About a month ago she told me it was now the opposite. Matches up.

By: Tim Martin

Tim Martin — Mon, 02 Jan 2012 15:06:53 +0000

As expected from when I lived in Japan, Yahoo is kicking Google’s ass there.

By: Aidan Kehoe

Aidan Kehoe — Mon, 02 Jan 2012 01:52:29 +0000

You need to add vkontakte to the Russia graphic, it’s at least as popular as Facebook there, and I’d be interested in the evolution of its popularity over time.