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Evidence to support this claim? Facebook has around 600 million active users today, giving them several billion more prospects. Their core product, the graph of human relationships, might very well be the single most valuable business product ever.


Several billion more? There are an estimated 2 billion internet users, and of those not using Facebook, a significant proportion of those are in countries that ban their population from accessing it.

Facebook might have plenty of scope for revenue generation, but their actual number of pageviews and users can't grow much more without them actually being the internet for the average person


That, a Harward freshman could see it and pursue that with a perfect execution, when most couldn't care for, is awesome!


There are fewer than 2 billion people with the internet access.

Facebook has 600 million active users, which means they have many more registered users who don't use the service or barely use it.

So in the very best case they can grow to 2 billion active users. And that's if they can magically make every single one of them active.




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