It is almost an internet inside of the internet. Never in the world of the social networks there was something like Facebook. With a growth of 155% in one year, the service crosses one by one the social networks in the world, becoming leader in countries such as Colombia and Australia. The advance of Facebook is so big that even the effects in India and Brazil can be easily detected, where Orkut is still hegemonic.

With the most international profile among all of the networks up to now, Facebook, which was born in the United States, was conquering for the communication possibility among Internet users of different countries little by little. A French one had a North American friend. Then, he enters in Facebook to talk with him, only that also invited that his school friend from his city. And this new one user invites his sister.

Suddenly 50% of the Internet users from French were already in the service and they abandoned the social network that they used before.

That repeated in Canada, in United Kingdom, in Argentina, in Spain, in Chile, in the USA…

Today, nothing less than 30% of the world Internet users are in Facebook and they spend, on average, 20 minutes by day in their pages seeing pictures and the friends’ updatings, besides participate in games, surveys, etc. Because of its popularity, the site – that today occupies the fourth world position among the giants in the internet in access numbers – is already the main rival of Google. Today Facebook has more than 300 million members registered in the planet.

Facebook was created by a 19 year-old students, Mark Zuckerberg. At that time, who reigned alone was MySpace, network that there was overpast the pioneer Friendster, by bet in music and it was until last September the biggest social network in the world.

The main innovation in the Zuckerberg’ social network did was the adoption of applications, launched in 2007. Until then, personalization with programs for the internet was summarized to the player of MySpace. Facebook saw then that it was possible to have any possible type of program online on the user profile.

Today, there are more than 54 thousand applications in the site, that consolidates the tendency of the online softwares.

Via: Techcrunch.