Facebook Members Register Names at 550 a Second
Facebook Inc., the world’s largest social-networking site, said members registered new user names at a rate of more than 550 a second after the company offered people the chance to claim a personalized Web address.
Facebook started accepted registrations at midnight New York time on a first-come, first-served basis. Within the first seven minutes, 345,000 people had claimed user names, said Larry Yu, a spokesman for Palo Alto, California-based Facebook. Within 15 minutes, 500,000 users had grabbed a name.
Mein Gott, I thought to myself, if 550 people a second are doing something, they can't all be wrong. So I immediately signed up. Actually, this isn't my first experience with social networking since I did try Orkut out some years back, but somehow I didn't quite get the point. Either I was missing something, or Orkut was. Now I think I've finally got it. Perhaps the technology has improved, or perhaps I have. As I said in one of my first postings:
Ok. This is just what I've always wanted really. A quick'n dirty personal blog. Here we go. Boy am I going to enjoy this.Daniel Dresner once broke bloggers down into two groups, the "thinkers" and the "linkers". I probably would be immodest enough to suggest that most of my material falls into the first category (my postings are lo-o-o-ng, horribly long), but since I don't really fit any mould, and I am hard to typecast, I also have that hidden "linker" part, struggling within and desperate to come out. Which is why Facebook is just great.
In addition, on blogs like this I can probably only manage to post something worthwhile perhaps once or twice a month, and there is news everyday.
So, if you want some of that up to the minute "breaking" stuff, and are willing to submit yourself to a good dose of link spam, why not come on in and subscribe to my new state-of-the-art blog? You can either send me a friend request via FB, or mail me direct (you can find the mail on my Roubini Global page). Let's all go and take a long hard look at the future, you never know, it might just work.
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Can you provide me a like to the new blog, preferably where I can monitor it with RSS and don't have to be logged in?
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The story appears to be talking about new facebook users singing up but rather existing users taking advantage of the ability to claim your own user name in facebook. The main difference being that the user name is unique to you, as opposed to the name you register to facebook with and other people see displayed. So there can be thousands of people with the name John Doe on facebook but only one with that username. Probably most of the people signing up to use that feature were those looking to claim their own name as their user name.
Anyway your posting seemed slightly confused on the issue so I just thought I'd mention it. Also this is my first time to read through your blog. So far I'm impressed with the content.
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