Facebook to take over the world

This headline takes off on what I just read in UK’s The Guardian publication – How Facebook will take over the World.

In spite of complaints about it’s speed, searchability, and other features, Facebook is doing something right.  Whither thou goest MySpace?  And now Orkut may be facing the same challenges in India and Brazil.

So, Facebook is almost up to 500 million active users and expects to be at 1 billion users shortly.   500 million is equal to 22% of all internet users. Globally.   That’s beyond amazing.

Not just individuals, but businesses should be using Facebook fan pages to connect and communicate with their customers and prospects.

To give you an idea of what else is going on in the e-world, here are some awesome statistics compiled by Hubspot:

• There are 1.67+ billion internet users worldwide
• 90 trillion emails were sent on the internet in 2009
• There are 126 million blogs today
• 10+ billion tweets sent since 2006
• 2 billion videos are streamed on YouTube EVERY DAY!

So, there you go.  Any doubts that you should be spending more energy, focus, resources on e-Marketing….where your customers and prospects are?

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