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"Facebook grew from 100 million to 200 million users in just 8 months.  Now, the company has announced that it has gone from 200 million to 250 million in just over 3 months.  In other words, despite its already massive size, Facebook\u2019s growth actually appears to still be accelerating.  \nMore important than the raw user count though is what users are actually doing on the site.  And earlier this week, we reported that Facebook is also number one in terms of the amount of time users spend on the site, beating out the likes of Google, Yahoo, and Microsoft with each user spending an average of 4 hours, 39 minutes on the social network in June.   In spite of all that success, founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg would like you to think the best is yet to come.  In a blog post, he writes:\n\n\u201CEach person who joins makes Facebook better by adding a presence to the site that friends and family can connect with and feel closer to. For us, growing to 250 million users isn't just an impressive number; it is a mark of how many personal connections all of you have made, and how far we at Facebook have to go to extend the power of connection to the billions of people around the world.\nSo today as we celebrate our 250 millionth user, we are also continuing to develop Facebook to serve as many people in the world in the most effective way possible. This means reaching out to everyone across the world and making products that serve all of you, wherever you are\u2014whether through Facebook Connect, new mobile products and the other things that we are building. We're grateful to have all of you with us, and we look forward to helping connect the next quarter billion people on Facebook.\u201D\n\nHistory suggests that someone else will eventually topple Facebook \u2013 after all, the title of top social network has passed every couple years, first from Friendster, then to MySpace, and then to Facebook.  But right now, all signs point to the site continuing to dominate, as its size and scale has moved well beyond that of its competitors.  Not to mention, it may even be starting to make some money."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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