Torontonians surpass 1/2 million mark on Facebook

[...] 1 in 10 people in the Toronto metro area are Facebookers, according to the stats. At 500,000 members and counting, the Toronto network is larger than NYC, London or Los Angeles which have much larger populations. This post by Ryan Feeley provides a table of statistics on Facebook network size compared to metro populations for major english-speaking cities.read more | digg story [...]

First we take Manhattan, then we take Berlin… or we could just take Facebook?

I wonder how long it will take those other cities to catch the FB “bug” like Toronto has – once it does we’ll be very quickly left in the dust. But then again, maybe those cities have better things to do with their time…

I think this shows how much room Facebook has to grow. For some stats on their recent growth see: http://pauldowman.com/2007/04/11/facebook-scales/

You might want to recheck your chicago population, in 2005 the metro area was 9,443,356 people. Not like it matters much.

nit picky: well spotted. I fixed it, thanks!

[...] Not only is the power of social networks not decreasing, I think it is increasing and expanding, and that can be seen in the growth of youth networks such as Gaia Online (which I wrote about here), Neopets, Webkinz and so on. And the draw of an online network seems to be pretty strong in Toronto: according to this post by Ryan Keeley, Torontonians are — per capita — much bigger users of Facebook than residents of other large cities. Maybe it’s the weather. facebook, myspace, social networks | Share This | Related links [...]

I am very surprised that no one has commented that not only is Toronto leading the charge, but if you rank all those listed by penetration (FB/Metro) you will see that Vancouver and Calgary are also beating the other cities listed.

Toronto could be starting to shake its inferiority complex, beginning to define its own identity instead of looking elsewhere for approval. Like, we are going to lead this thing… where on this list is San Francisco… the capital of the wired world?

perhaps it’s just because torontonians would rather interact with a screen than a real live person… can’t talk to each other in bars and clubs… but we can talk on facebook

A whole other can of worms. Are people in Toronto antisocial? I was struck by this quote from a recent film review, “Toronto does not care about you, about what you do, about where you’re going or what you’re wearing. In Toronto, nobody is watching from behind their kitchen window curtains, nobody knows your parents, grandparents and dentist, nobody remembers where you went to school or how bad your hair was in Grade 11, and nobody is cluck-clucking about your divorce, weight gain, poor investment strategy or binge drinking.”

I could care less about Facebook, but thanks for leading me to that article Geoff, it was a good read!

[...] Toronto loves Facebook Published April 30th, 2007 Uncategorized The world’s biggest free standing structure and the world’s biggest underground tunnel network isn’t enough for my hometown of Toronto.  Now the city can boast the world’s biggest Facebook network.  Given its relatively smaller population (among the world’s biggest cities that is), this distinction probably won’t last forever.  The following numbers come from blogger Ryan Feely [...]

could people just be adding themselves to the toronto network to score hot chicks or studs on a weekend getaway? hmmmm discuss. hahaha

[...] At the intersection of social networking and climate change action, the new tool should gain popularity quite fast in a town that is known for its web-savvy population. In fact, the project is even called a “green facebook”, possibly alluding at the fact that Torontonias have gone crazy for Facebook [...]

I’m from Toronto and love Facebook. The reason seems to be the same for a lot of the people I know who are also on Facebook: hooking up with long lost friends. Also, it’s good to keep in touch with extremely busy people. Example: My friend is a lawyer. When she started working I was never able to see her or talk to her because of her crazy hours. Since she’s joined Facebook I get to find out how she’s doing any time I want and vice versa.

London, UK, is catching up fast – as of now it has 443,149 members, as opposed to the 338,188 it had less than a month ago according to your table…

[...] As of April 2007, Toronto has the largest Facebook network with half a million users.  London comes in second with 338,188 users.  Check out some more statistics. [...]

[...] become a monster. The popular social networking website has millions of users worldwide, including over 500k in Toronto alone, and grows roughly 3% a week. Our own FreshBooks User Group, hosted on Facebook, already has [...]

[...] the other hand, toronto has the biggest facebook network in the world, so greg’s experience could either be the leading edge, or an exaggeration of the rest of the [...]

man, north american people must be the most pathetic on the face of the earth. nothing better to do than just be on facebook. no wonder we escape to mexico, latin america, spain, italy and other countries that socialize like normal people rather than on the internet

[...] the other hand, toronto has the biggest facebook network in the world, so greg’s experience could either be the leading edge, or an exaggeration of the rest of the [...]

Is ‘ah nobody’ for real?? You are using the very network that you are critical about….brush up on your english by the way

hoodia gordonii…

news…

Maybe people actually go out and socialize in other cities….? I don’t know weather to be ashamed or proud…

where is Washington, DC? They have 287,000 fb members, and I’m not sure, isn’t the population of DC only 500,000?

damn, New York now has 414,000 members! (I’m writing on Sep. 28, some 5 months after this list).

oh yeah, one more thing I want make the best use of my funny coach Nice joke! Where does a bird go when it loses its tail? The retail store.

[...] some are pro or semi-pro. Flickr was started here after all and on Facebook or Plenty of Fish, Vancouver is one of the more active networks, even though size wise we shouldn’t be in the running with the bigger cities in the world. [...]