{"id":6291,"date":"2011-11-25T10:05:05","date_gmt":"2011-11-25T10:05:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.smartdatacollective.com\/index.php\/post\/facebook-numbers-measuring-my-friends-social-network\/"},"modified":"2011-11-25T10:05:05","modified_gmt":"2011-11-25T10:05:05","slug":"facebook-numbers-measuring-my-friends-social-network","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.smartdatacollective.com\/facebook-numbers-measuring-my-friends-social-network\/","title":{"rendered":"Facebook By The Numbers: Measuring My Friends On The Social Network"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail wp-post-image\" title=\"My Friends DNA\" src=\"http:\/\/www.matthewhurst.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/My-Friends-DNA-150x150.png\" alt=\"via ShoutFlow.com\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail wp-post-image\" title=\"My Friends DNA\" src=\"http:\/\/www.matthewhurst.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/My-Friends-DNA-150x150.png\" alt=\"via ShoutFlow.com\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Not only is Facebook increasingly synonymous with <a title=\"Nielsen\u2019s Social Media Report\" href=\"http:\/\/www.matthewhurst.com\/2011\/10\/nielsens-social-media-report\/\" data-wpel-link=\"external\" rel=\"external noopener noreferrer ugc\">social media usage<\/a>, but it\u2019s ubiquity reaches more than 7 out of 10 web users every month, and a growing number of weekly and daily users like myself. &nbsp;Here\u2019s a few more ways to understand the impact of Facebook:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Time spent on Facebook accounts for about <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.nielsen.com\/nielsenwire\/online_mobile\/social-media-report-spending-time-money-and-going-mobile\/\" data-wpel-link=\"external\" rel=\"external noopener noreferrer ugc\">1 out of every 5 minutes<\/a> time spent online every month, and the most total time of any website.<\/li>\n<li>Facebook\u2019s app is the most downloaded for iPhones, with over <a rel=\"nofollow external noopener noreferrer ugc\" href=\"http:\/\/www.redmondpie.com\/facebook-for-iphone-app-has-over-100-million-users-that-is-as-much-as-all-ios-devices-sold-by-apple\/\" data-wpel-link=\"external\">100 million iOS installations<\/a>. Outside of Android\u2019s stock apps, Facebook is the <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.nielsen.com\/nielsenwire\/online_mobile\/top-20-android-apps-in-the-us-women-like-facebook-men-love-maps-and-mail\/\" data-wpel-link=\"external\" rel=\"external noopener noreferrer ugc\">most downloaded and used app<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Is Google vs Facebook is a false dichotomy?\" href=\"http:\/\/www.matthewhurst.com\/2011\/05\/is-google-vs-facebook-a-false-dichotomy\/\" data-wpel-link=\"external\" rel=\"external noopener noreferrer ugc\">Next to Google<\/a>, Facebook is the <a title=\"Relationship status: How social media is changing weddings\" href=\"http:\/\/blog.nielsen.com\/nielsenwire\/online_mobile\/september-2011-top-us-web-brands\/\" data-wpel-link=\"external\" rel=\"external noopener noreferrer ugc\">second most visited site<\/a> on the web.<\/li>\n<li>While 45% of my friends on Facebook are female, <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.nielsen.com\/nielsenwire\/social\/\" data-wpel-link=\"external\" rel=\"external noopener noreferrer ugc\">women represent the majority<\/a> of Facebook users<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>My 550+ friends on Facebook represent only a fraction of Facebook\u2019s 800+ million registered users, but it represents a historic shift in creating larger circles of friends. Thanks to Facebook\u2019s ubiquitous popularity, I\u2019m able to keep in touch with friends in high school and college who live hundreds (and thousands) of miles away, whereas only a few years earlier I would more easily fall out of contact with my friends. Since I grew up in the Facebook generation, I\u2019m not alone in using the social network to keep loose-ties with old friends following my own graduation and <a title=\"Where is Matthew Hurst?\" href=\"http:\/\/www.matthewhurst.com\/about\/where\/\" data-wpel-link=\"external\" rel=\"external noopener noreferrer ugc\">relocation to New York City<\/a>.&nbsp; Here\u2019s a few more stats about how I use Facebook to connect with friends:<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1653\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"width: 577px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.matthewhurst.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/My-Friends-DNA.png\" data-wpel-link=\"external\" rel=\"external noopener noreferrer ugc\"><img loading=\"lazy\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1653   \" title=\"Facebook friends infographic\" src=\"http:\/\/www.matthewhurst.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/My-Friends-DNA.png\" alt=\"Infographic on Matthew Hurst's Facebook friends\" width=\"567\" height=\"436\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Facebook Infographic via ShoutFlow.com<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>5 years ago I reluctantly joined the social network, admittedly at the behest of<a title=\"Lauren Reid\" href=\"http:\/\/laurenreid.net\" data-wpel-link=\"external\" rel=\"external noopener noreferrer ugc\"> Lauren Reid<\/a> who wanted to make our relationship \u201cFacebook official\u201d. I\u2019m happy to say we\u2019re still \u201cin a relationship\u201d (even though only 24% of my friends are single), and that I\u2019ve been hooked on Facebook ever since.&nbsp; Here\u2019s how I used Facebook when I first started:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/photo.php?fbid=594028805018\" data-wpel-link=\"external\" rel=\"external noopener noreferrer ugc\"><img loading=\"lazy\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1715\" style=\"margin: 10px;\" title=\"First Facebook posts infographic\" src=\"http:\/\/www.matthewhurst.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/393185_594028805018_66703390_32398190_1928221813_n.jpg\" alt=\"Matthew Hurst's early posts on Facebook with Lauren Reid, in infographic form\" width=\"560\" height=\"420\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ve seen this social network grow from a core of friends and college classmates into an everyday network of family and friends used by some people I never thought I\u2019d interact with online; most recently my Mom even signed up! You can connect with me through <a title=\"Matthew Hurst on Facebook\" rel=\"Me external noopener noreferrer ugc\" href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/matthew.hurst\" data-wpel-link=\"external\">my Facebook profile<\/a> or by becoming a fan of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/apps\/application.php?id=116177144547\" data-wpel-link=\"external\" rel=\"external noopener noreferrer ugc\">my Facebook page<\/a> for this website.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/MattHurst\/~4\/Hopjl_pHHcA\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":236,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[15,25],"tags":[61],"class_list":{"0":"post-6291","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-analytics","7":"category-social-data","8":"tag-facebook"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.smartdatacollective.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6291","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.smartdatacollective.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.smartdatacollective.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.smartdatacollective.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/236"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.smartdatacollective.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6291"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.smartdatacollective.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6291\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.smartdatacollective.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.smartdatacollective.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.smartdatacollective.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}