http://www.thestandard.com/node/101802/comments comments feed. en http://www.thestandard.com/news/2008/02/23/globalization-facebook <!--paging_filter--><p>Erick Schonfeld generated <a href="http://www.techmeme.com/080222/p66#a080222p66">a lot of discussion in the blogs yesterday</a> with a post talking about <a href="http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/02/22/facebook-fatigue-visitors-level-off-in-the-us/">facebook fatigue</a> and the flattening of the facebook growth curve in the US.</p> <p>But the charts in Erick's post tell me that Facebook is a global business now and what's happening in the US is not anywhere near the whole story. Here are some stats I culled from comscore.</p> <p><a href="http://avc.blogs.com/.shared/image.html?/photos/uncategorized/2008/02/23/facebook_2007.jpg" onclick="window.open(this.href, '_blank', 'width=640,height=282,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0'); return false"><img src="http://avc.blogs.com/a_vc/images/2008/02/23/facebook_2007.jpg" title="Facebook_2007" alt="Facebook_2007" border="0" height="220" width="500" /></a></p> <p>Check that out. The percentage of monthly uvs coming from the US dropped from <i>76% at the start of the year to 35% at the end of the year</i>. The percentage from the three big english speaking countries (US, UK, and Canada) dropped from 96% at the start to 64% at year end. Europe is now 23% of Facebook and Asia is now 14%.</p> <p>Here is where Facebook's growth is coming from right now.</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p><a href="http://avc.blogs.com/.shared/image.html?/photos/uncategorized/2008/02/23/facebook_uv_growth.jpg" onclick="window.open(this.href, '_blank', 'width=640,height=434,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0'); return false"><img src="http://avc.blogs.com/a_vc/images/2008/02/23/facebook_uv_growth.jpg" title="Facebook_uv_growth" alt="Facebook_uv_growth" border="0" height="339" width="500" /></a> </p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p><map name="google_ad_map_RSvzhPVAWNAd9o7EEapCMCmPfcE_"><area href="http://imageads.googleadservices.com/pagead/imgclick/RSvzhPVAWNAd9o7EEapCMCmPfcE_?pos=0" shape="rect" coords="1,2,367,28" /><area href="http://services.google.com/feedback/abg" shape="rect" coords="384,10,453,23" /></map><img src="http://imageads.googleadservices.com/pagead/ads?format=468x30_aff_img&amp;client=ca-pub-1976969113493846&amp;output=png&amp;cuid=RSvzhPVAWNAd9o7EEapCMCmPfcE_&amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Favc.blogs.com%2Fa_vc%2F2008%2F02%2Fthe-globalizati.html" usemap="#google_ad_map_RSvzhPVAWNAd9o7EEapCMCmPfcE_" border="0" /></p> <p><a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~a/AVcVentureCapitalAndTechnology?a=cCPqFG"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~a/AVcVentureCapitalAndTechnology?i=cCPqFG" border="0" /></a></p> <div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/AVcVentureCapitalAndTechnology?a=WFPX3pe"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/AVcVentureCapitalAndTechnology?i=WFPX3pe" border="0" /></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/AVcVentureCapitalAndTechnology?a=ZnRBQfE"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/AVcVentureCapitalAndTechnology?i=ZnRBQfE" border="0" /></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/AVcVentureCapitalAndTechnology?a=EHbmbpE"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/AVcVentureCapitalAndTechnology?i=EHbmbpE" border="0" /></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/AVcVentureCapitalAndTechnology?a=ZC08LQe"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/AVcVentureCapitalAndTechnology?i=ZC08LQe" border="0" /></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/AVcVentureCapitalAndTechnology?a=kY3dNzE"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/AVcVentureCapitalAndTechnology?i=kY3dNzE" border="0" /></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/AVcVentureCapitalAndTechnology?a=KxlJnyE"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/AVcVentureCapitalAndTechnology?i=KxlJnyE" border="0" /></a> </div> <p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/AVcVentureCapitalAndTechnology/~4/239922445" height="1" width="1" /> <p><b>Related news, commentary, and predictions:</b></p> <ul> <li>Prediction: <b><a href="/predictions/facebook-will-release-adsense-competitor">FaceBook will release an AdSense competitor</a></b></li> <li>Analysis: <b><a href="/news/2008/02/19/social-networks-users-revolt">Social networks: The users revolt</a></b></li> <li>Analysis: <b><a href="/news/2008/02/07/facebooks-e-commerce-conundrum">Facebook's e-commerce conundrum</a></b></li> <li>News: <b><a href="/news/2008/02/13/facebook-bends-users-makes-it-easier-delete-accounts">Facebook bends, makes it easier for users to delete accounts</a></b></li> </ul> <p><b>Note:</b> Anonymous comments on The Industry Standard are disabled. To leave a comment and participate in the Standard's prediction market, please <b><a href="/user/register?destination=search/predictions">register</a></b> first.</p> http://www.thestandard.com/news/2008/02/23/globalization-facebook#comments Venture Capital and Technology Breaking News Sat, 23 Feb 2008 04:54:43 -0800 Fred Wilson 101802 at http://www.thestandard.com