Facebook users exceeded 500 million

Social networking site Facebook users exceeded 500 million, according to this site operating company.
The site launched in 2004 it booked 100 million of new users in the last six months.

Facebook said that figure represents an important milestone and add them to feel lucky and inspired by various stories users.

Stuart Miles from the technology blogs Pocket Lint says Facebook because there is talk of a successful word of mouth.
Snowball

''So many people use the Internet and so many who want to share with your friends, just like a snowball,''he told the BBC.

At first''small, then lumpy, big plus. Suddenly not only the friends around you who participate, but many people have all come to preach the importance of Facebook.''

''The next milestone, 750 million will not likely take longer because of its spread is greater, as this snowball.''

This site founder Mark Zuckerberg said earlier that almost certainly will Facebook users to record one billion.

However, this site is not without problems. Not long ago they got into trouble after repeatedly changing their privacy settings and thousands of people threatened to memboikotnya in May 2010.

However, an influential blogger Robert Scoble said that while most people are not hit by controversy affected.

''It's not a lot of people hope that by the nature of confidentiality in privacy,''he said. Privacy''inconsistent with the ordinary people.''
Competitors

While Facebook continues to grow, many of its competitors fade or even disappear altogether.

MySpace is owned by News Corp. at one time had dominated the social networking site for kids.

However, the number of Facebook users through their years in 2008. MySpace now has about 65 million active users.

MySpace''aimed at their children and this has limited access to computers,''Miles said.

Another competitor, Bebo, are also experiencing problems. In June, AOL as an owner of social networking site that sells only two years after the purchase at a price of U.S. $ 850 million.

AOL said that was not quite able to provide the funds to compete with its competitors.

The only social networking site that can develop is Twitter.

Twitter traffic measurement is difficult because users rarely interact through the site's service provider. They are more use of computer software or mobile phone.

However, the current estimated nearly 200 million people use Twitter.