We have 3603 accounts atm, actually. About 350 unique users visit us on an average day. About three dozen of us are probably responsible for 90% of the comments and posts. I guess that follows a 10:1% rule for lurkers, and engagement.
FB has some interesting accounting methods. For example, if you login to Digg, but never visit FB, you're counted as an active user.
This is one reason most advertising models are so awful. The motivation becomes numbers. On the other hand, if people pay for the service, the motivation is to improve the service. I don't want to get into a situation where I am focusing on the number of visits we are getting. I want to only worry about the quality of the time spent here. Not saying that I am planning on charging a fee, but I'm not going to get painted into a corner. That's not why I started this site. Getting hits has no purpose.
with the increasing # of cyber crimes targeting at Facebook recently, i can understand why people dont want to use their real identities. An article by the UK's Daily Mail claims that in the future insurance claims could be rejected if customers had been ‘reckless’ with information they posted on website like Facebook.
the one billion active account the number Zuckerman has been saying means 1/7 of the earths population logs in regularly. But since only around 2/7 of the earth has internet access the "genius" wants us to believe half of people on the internet use facebook. he knows that he is lying because I am sure that he has noticed the sources of his traffic I am sure that the number of active facebook accounts with u.s. ips is a few times greater than the u.s. population.
I only have 1 FB account and I'm going to relinquish using it as of Aug 15th. I'm pretty sick of FB. Not much good comes of it for me.