Technology All The Way

California based Facebook has made great strides in capturing the attention of the masses worldwide in 2009. The manner in which Facebook is growing can only be compared to the colonization process that was prevalent in the world from the 12'th to the 19'th century.

Just about 2 years ago, Microsoft's myspace was the dominant leader in the social networking market. But since its inception, facebook has stormed across all the other social networking sites that cropped up parallel to it. In a recent article here in by TechCrunch we can clearly see the growth of social networks across the world and the major role that facebook plays in it.

The number of internet users in the world have almost doubled in the past 2 years. And it seems like social networks have been a driving force to bring people closer to the internet by promising the the ability to keep in touch with their near and dear ones. Facebook, with its ever expanding user base is exponentially growing in spite of enormous efforts by competitors like Google's orkut and Microsoft's myspace.

As is clearly visible in the map, Facebook somehow has not yet been able to gain much market share in the Russian territory, but observing its pattern, things are bound to change, considering the trends. However, the map at techcrunch somehow seems ridiculous because myspace seems to be nowhere on the map. Also, google trends for other networking sites shows different results that the ones shown on the map. For example, you can check out this, this and this to keep track of a few.

One way or the other, we all know that social networking is bound to grow. And as of now, facebook seems to be taking the lead.One painful thing that needs to be observed in that Africa has not been able to make it on the map. It looks like the entire continent is offline. Lets just hope that it does not stay that way for long.