Facebook and critical mass
From Facebook, an observation about critical mass and self-reinforcing network growth. Or about South African work-avoidance behaviour. Who knows. In the last couple of weeks, I noted the approximate size of the South Africa network on the following dates:
- 26 June 2007: 110 000
- 5 July 2007: 125 000
- 10 July 2007: 135 000
By contrast, MySpace has two significant South Africa groups, with memberships (possibly overlapping) of 3 000 and 1 600. Now which one would you join? At least 30 South Africans chose Facebook just while I was writing this post. Hectic, bru.
Those are pretty staggering numbers. I’m interested to see at which point (if at all!!) it levels out in SA.