Gee's Blog World: Facebook's American growth almost completely halts, primary demographic actually starts leaving

Wednesday, July 7, 2010

Facebook's American growth almost completely halts, primary demographic actually starts leaving

Now here's something to sink your teeth into: take a look at the graph above. It comes from a long series of demographic and growth reports by Inside Facebook. It illustrates that, in June 2010, only 320,000 Americans joined Facebook -- but more importantly, it shows that 250,000 of the primary 18-to-44-year-old demographic actually left Facebook.

Inside Facebook says the figures could be the result of a 'blip', but it's much more likely to be a result of The Privacy Fiasco that plagued Facebook throughout May and June. The numbers are even more astounding when you realise that through May, just one month earlier, almost 8 million Americans joined Facebook.

So, from 8 million to 320,000 in just one month. Is Facebook actually reaching saturation in the USA, or are we looking at a graph that perfectly illustrates the repercussions of pissing all over our privacy?

We'll have to wait for the July figures to find out!