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Facebook Traffic Has Grown By 500% Last Six Months In UK

View Comments July 3, 2007 | Everton

I’m glad that I’m not the only person in the UK who’s spending far too much time on Facebook. In the last six months Facebook traffic has grown by more than 500% in the UK,with over 10% of UK internet users visiting the site. This compares to 9% in the US.   According to Nielsen, Facebook and Bebo will overtake Myspace as the number one site in the UK by September.

I’m starting to worry about how addictive Facebook is going to get in a couple of weeks.  At the moment I only have around 80 friends, but there are a few in there I haven’t spoken to for a while who I spend a lot of time catching up with. I’m worried what will happen when more of my older mates start appearing. I’m starting to appreciate now why some workplaces are blocking access to Facebook, as I’m sure there are some people who spend all day chatting on the site and messing around with Facebook apps.

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About Everton: Everton is based in London and has worked in the internet and mobile space for over ten years now, and before that worked in corporate strategy and consulting. He has a degree in Economics from Cambridge University.He also writes for Windows 7 News, Windows 8 News and One Tip A Day. View posts.

  • Robin
    FaceBook is definitely doing well in the U.K.That is primarily the reason why it's decided to have an extended focus on U.K operations.The year on year traffic growth has been more than 1500% and the weekly growth at around 3% which is staggering.
    I recently did a post on the same. You can find it here :
    http://www.mosaic-service.com/blog/?cat=7
  • Just saw on Digg yesterday the possibility of making an IPO. Could you imagine Facebook being publicly traded? I'd jump on the financial bandwagon.
  • Interesting disscassion , I have never used Facebook either.
  • I like the fact that there it's got a good interface, goof features and is customisable, but not to the awful (imo) extent that myspace is - every page I've ever gone to has taken an age to load and when it has appeared, you wish you hadn't bothered because of all the awful backgrounds that make any text hard to read while at the same time having random music playing.
  • I wouldn't say facebook is 'serious' but it's definitely not targetted at the teen market. Despite this it has a much better setup and the sharing and viral aspect is spot on
  • Face book is getting popular someone said that facebook is for much serious person and myspace is for people who just waste time online.

    Lets see how big it will be.
  • Facebook seems to be far superior to any of the other social networks out there. I really think they will take the lead with users in the next couple of years.
  • Yeah, this is why I can't get on Facebook. My own blog takes up enough time. (#):)
  • I've started using Facebook in the last month or so and it's become something that I visit usually at least once a day if not more.
  • I have never used Facebook. :-)
    If its going to overtake MySpace, then its something to try.
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