Younger Americans Still Fueling Facebook  

With Facebook continually growing and just recently reaching 350 million users worldwide, the most growth still has been in the United States amongst the younger generations. Due to the large base the US already has, the gain of users in December 2009 was 5%, and the countries with the most growth of 10% was in Indonesia, the Philippines and Malaysia. However, the largest gain came from males ages 18 to 25, and next women 26 to 34. Therefore, the highest rates of growth are continuing in the younger age groups and increase in usage with older users has slowed down. Despite the fact that older users are becoming a part of Facebook, the younger users are continuing to join. There were some concerns that younger users would not want to be a part of a social site that their parents were members of as well.

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