Survey: Atlanta getting sucked into Facebook faster than any other city
July 9, 2009 at 2:53 pm by Mara Shalhoup in NewsHave you been wondering why your employees are 19 percent less productive this year? Could it be because of this:
The number of Facebook users in the Atlanta area rose 142 percent the last six months, from 535,000 to nearly 1.3 million, according to a digital marketing firm called iStrategyLabs.
Peter Corbett, a 2003 Emory grad who founded iStrategyLabs, said he has no solid theories to explain the Atlanta surge. He’s analyzed Facebook usage for two years using data Facebook publicly supplies to its advertisers.
Los Angeles (97 percent) and Houston (71 percent) saw the next highest increases.
According to the AJC story story quoted above, 72 million Americans are now spending countless hours every week on Facebook — which means they’re filling out ridiculous polls (”If you were a dog, what breed would you be?”), sharing inconsequential details of their lives with virtual strangers (guilty!) and hoping that their “friends” don’t tag them in unflattering photos (thank the social-networking gods for the “remove tag” option).
One more thing: Facebook is no longer for the young and hip. The biggest group of Facebookers are now the 35-to-54-year-olds. (Admittedly, many of them are still hip, but definitely not young.) Yikes.
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