Smarter Social Media, the leading provider of social media marketing services online today, has released an article covering Facebook's growth trends. This week Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg announced that Facebook had surpassed the 350 million user mark. If Facebook were a country, it would be the 3rd largest country in the world today.
Smarter Social Media has performed and extensive analysis on Facebook user growth and demographic penetration percentages, to arrive at a set of projections for Facebook's growth over the next 5 years. The study which was led by one of our social media experts, Dr. France Jagolino, has been published here: Facebook User Growth Projections. Dr. Jagolino says:
"We at SmarterSocialMedia are projecting 500 million users by 2011 and believe that Facebook will reach 1 billion users before 2015. Given the fact that there are 6.5 billion people on the planet, and obviously more by 2015, 1 billion users may still be a conservative prediction."
