Facebook Wants to become the next Google, not MySpace

• Facebook has 250 million active users among which 120 million login at least once daily

• More than 30 million users update their Facebook status once a day, some do so more frequently than their underwear :D
  

I read a piece of article with the same heading that incited amusement and disappointment inside me. And the timing for the claim could not have been better, since Facebook recently bought FriendFeed, another social networking tool. Facebook is trying to stay ahead of the game and knows that it can leave behind Google in this race if it can make right decisions and cater to the needs of the future. And, Google founders, Sergey Brin and Larry Page very well know this. Facebook can do to Google what Google did to Microsoft.

The official website of Facebook boasts a healthy 250 million active users and it also claims that at least 120 million users log into their Facebook account everyday. Wow!! Whopping numbers. Are Google duos losing the battle? Opinions vary. History is evident that socializing websites bloom and fade like seasonal flowers. MySpace, Linkedn and others are few of them. But, the case is not very different for search engines either, except for Google, of course. AltaVista, the once prominent search engine has become an endangered species after Google came into the ring. And, the same can be said true for web browsers too. Who uses Netscape these days? It was the only and the most prominent browser just a decade ago, wasn't it?

So, I do have my doubts over whether Facebook can really become the next Google. In fact, I have started to see Facebook users getting genuinely concerned over the potential misuse of the information and other private details. Media has been doing a pretty reasonable role in educating general people about the security loopholes while allowing Applications to pull out your profile information. Also, it is not uncommon to see people getting in trouble at work. Also, it has started to be believed that some company recruiters pull out workers' information from Facebook and also use it to base their decisions. A clean Facebook profile has started to become the popular slogan among wise Facebook users. If more and more users start getting responsible, careful and discretionary in uploading and posting images, videos or texts then, it should hurt viral expansion of Facebook users.

Facebook Statistics are very interesting to skim through if you are an active Facebook user. For instance, every user has on average 120 friends and 2/3 of its users are users outside of college even though it was originally created for students.

Check out the complete Official Facebook Statistics .