Facebook nearly as large as U.S. population-minus DR folks

Wednesday, September 16, 2009

(CNN) -- Facebook's user base is nearly as large as the U.S. population and, for the first time, the site has turned a profit.
Facebook now has 300 million users -- almost as many as the population of the United States.

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Facebook is a lot more interesting than the anonymous trolling, backstabbing, and frontal stabbings that go on here daily. Maybe if our brave internet warriors posted their pictures an email addresses....

#1 | Posted by Snark_Needleton at 2009-09-16 08:58 PM | Reply | Flag:

I keep forgetting I have a Facebook page.

Guess I should try to remember my password to go see it!

#2 | Posted by Lisa at 2009-09-16 09:02 PM | Reply | Flag:

Guess I should try to remember my password to go see it!

#2 | Posted by Lisa at 2009-09-16 09:02 PM |

Send me an invitation Lisa.

#3 | Posted by crispee_oc at 2009-09-16 09:08 PM | Reply | Flag:

Crispee??

I would if I could remember my password and the email addy I used to set it up!!

LOL

I do remember my myspace one though!

#4 | Posted by Lisa at 2009-09-16 09:13 PM | Reply | Flag:

I do remember my myspace one though!

#4 | Posted by Lisa at 2009-09-16 09:13 PM

I have no clue what my passord is for Myspace. Only used it to see how friends kids played and if they won or lost. Now they are all in HS or College and don't use it anymore.

#5 | Posted by crispee_oc at 2009-09-16 09:38 PM | Reply | Flag:

Crisp,

I'll figure it out tomorrow.

Shoot me an email with your name on Facebook.

But I have to tell you, all my pics, blogs, etc are on myspace.

#6 | Posted by Lisa at 2009-09-16 09:52 PM | Reply | Flag:

#6...
Gotcha kid...

#7 | Posted by crispee_oc at 2009-09-16 09:58 PM | Reply | Flag:

I don't understand why someone would want to be contacted by a bunch of people you used to know.

#8 | Posted by grumpy_too at 2009-09-16 11:33 PM | Reply | Flag:

Failbook is Fail

~~~

MOAR!

#9 | Posted by Zarathustra at 2009-09-16 11:33 PM | Reply | Flag:

Do you go to your class reunions?

#10 | Posted by Lisa at 2009-09-16 11:37 PM | Reply | Flag:

# 8 ff

#11 | Posted by Bani at 2009-09-16 11:39 PM | Reply | Flag:

FF fer Headline.

Spud used to have a failbook thingy but gave it up fer Lent and then fergot the password.

Be Well.

#12 | Posted by dethspud at 2009-09-16 11:43 PM | Reply | Flag:

Hey Crispee...I figured out my password so go ahead and add me!

#13 | Posted by Lisa at 2009-09-17 06:52 AM | Reply | Flag:

I gots me a face book.

Lately its been buggy.

#14 | Posted by klifferd at 2009-09-17 07:53 AM | Reply | Flag:

Buggy???

#15 | Posted by Lisa at 2009-09-17 08:03 AM | Reply | Flag:

I broke down and got a Facebook page and I am actually enjoying it. Didn't think I would, but I have gotten back in touch with so many I lost touch with before internet.

#16 | Posted by kanrei at 2009-09-17 10:39 AM | Reply | Flag:

Very Buggy Lisa. I get errors almost as much as I get a page.

#17 | Posted by kanrei at 2009-09-17 10:39 AM | Reply | Flag:

there is problem with some app that people are running and it is messing up facebook. I like it, myself. I got back in touch with a bunch of high school friends.

#18 | Posted by missesmerelda at 2009-09-17 02:48 PM | Reply | Flag:

I must admit to also being a Mafia Wars addict.

#19 | Posted by kanrei at 2009-09-17 02:49 PM | Reply | Flag:

a buddy of mine is addicted to Mafia Wars as well on facebook

#20 | Posted by Bani at 2009-09-17 03:25 PM | Reply | Flag:

It is so stupid and pointless and I can't stop.

#21 | Posted by kanrei at 2009-09-17 03:26 PM | Reply | Flag:

It is so stupid and pointless and I can't stop.
#21 | Posted by kanrei at 2009-09-17 03:26 PM | Reply

LOL I know exactly what you mean! My wife asked me what the point was a few weeks ago and for the life of me I couldn't answer. Just kept happily clicking away...

#22 | Posted by bartimus at 2009-09-17 03:29 PM | Reply | Flag:

I blame my friends. They kept sending me gifts and I got curious and tried it and BAM! I dodged the Vampire Wars and Farmville bullets, but they tried. Oh, how they tried.

#23 | Posted by kanrei at 2009-09-17 03:31 PM | Reply | Flag:

Where would I store my Elk Pictures?

M.P. went Bow Hunting last week

#24 | Posted by Manypaths at 2009-09-17 03:35 PM | Reply | Flag:

Is that you?

#25 | Posted by kanrei at 2009-09-17 03:35 PM | Reply | Flag:

Yeppers! Last Thursday near Telluride.

#26 | Posted by Manypaths at 2009-09-17 03:38 PM | Reply | Flag:

love Elk heart...

#27 | Posted by Bani at 2009-09-17 03:39 PM | Reply | Flag:

Wow! very impressive. Bow hunting always seemed fair to me.

#28 | Posted by kanrei at 2009-09-17 03:39 PM | Reply | Flag:

So weird when you actually put a face to a name here. We have all known each other for years without knowing each other.

#29 | Posted by kanrei at 2009-09-17 03:39 PM | Reply | Flag:

#23 | Posted by kanrei at 2009-09-17 03:31 PM | Reply | Flag:

I have yet to try Farmville and the Pillowfight App, it seems everyone I know has those. My cousins were the ones that got me hooked. Maybe I should pay 'em back and send them a link to the DR...

#30 | Posted by bartimus at 2009-09-17 03:39 PM | Reply | Flag:

I thought about doing that to my friends, but I don't want them here. This place is mine and, if they were here, it would be harder to be Kanrei and not be Brad.

#31 | Posted by kanrei at 2009-09-17 03:40 PM | Reply | Flag:

I'm just waiting for one of you yahoos to set up the "Proud member of the Drudge Retort" facebook page...

#32 | Posted by bartimus at 2009-09-17 03:41 PM | Reply | Flag:

They have

#33 | Posted by kanrei at 2009-09-17 03:41 PM | Reply | Flag:

Thanks. We called him in from 3/4 of a mile away.

He came in screaming. My caller/hunting buddy was filming from 100 yards behind me and that elk walked to 30 yards of me and had no idea what hit him.

He ran about 80 yards and fell over.

The hard part was being 2.5 miles and 2400 vertical feet above the truck.

It took awhile.......

#34 | Posted by Manypaths at 2009-09-17 03:41 PM | Reply | Flag:

No way! Seriously???

#35 | Posted by bartimus at 2009-09-17 03:42 PM | Reply | Flag:

I thought about doing that to my friends, but I don't want them here. This place is mine and, if they were here, it would be harder to be Kanrei and not be Brad.

#31 | Posted by kanrei

Same here. My own mother wouldn't recognize Manypaths.

#36 | Posted by Manypaths at 2009-09-17 03:43 PM | Reply | Flag:

If you are a member, type in "Drudge Retort" in the search bar and you will see Bush's face in the helmet.

#37 | Posted by kanrei at 2009-09-17 03:43 PM | Reply | Flag:

My parents met Kanrei the other day when we were talking about the Healthcare bill and they were not that happy.

#38 | Posted by kanrei at 2009-09-17 03:44 PM | Reply | Flag:

#38
My parents have been getting hagbard_celine since I was 19 or so...
Actually, I'm a bit nicer here.

I had a friend here for a while. It was a little bit like having someone in your bedroom though.

I'm glad that punk got pissed at bibble and chair and bob.

#39 | Posted by Hagbard_Celine at 2009-09-17 03:51 PM | Reply | Flag:

My parents met Kanrei the other day when we were talking about the Healthcare bill and they were not that happy.

#38 | Posted by kanrei at 2009-09-17 03:44 PM | Reply | Flag

Nice. Bartimus has been around since my freshman year in college; however, the anonymity here allows me to be a little more outspoken than I generally am in real life -- except, interestingly enough, when I dicussed US heathcare with my staunchly conservative dad several weeks ago. However, having specialized in that field (heathcare policy), I felt I knew a little more on the subject than he did. It ended up being a good discussion.

#40 | Posted by bartimus at 2009-09-17 03:58 PM | Reply | Flag:

Kanrei has been my "online self" since around 98 when I played one of those MMOG thingies. My parents and friends had heard me tell of some of the exchanges here and they would often comment on how not nice I was, but they never had Kanrei turn on them until recently.

I have notice Kanrei will analyze every word in a sentence looking for a weakness, even when he fully understands the main point, and will attack regardless.

#41 | Posted by kanrei at 2009-09-17 04:04 PM | Reply | Flag:

lol

www.facebook.com

#42 | Posted by Bani at 2009-09-17 04:06 PM | Reply | Flag:

I joined at first, but it is a dead group and recently quit it.

#43 | Posted by kanrei at 2009-09-17 04:11 PM | Reply | Flag:

I posted this yesterday on my wall therein;

one of my old friends likes it already:>)

Had an amazing dream this morning with a fellow that looked like Dale Carnegie! I had been reading his then copyrighted 1944 future 6 million bestseller "How to Stop Worrying & Start Living" (on facebook?) of late. Anyway, I did a Wikip...edia search on the fellow & found this interesting gem on public speaking that he discovered while @ YMCA:

"When the production ended, he returned to New York, unemployed, nearly broke, and living at the YMCA on 125th Street. It was there that he got the idea to teach public speaking, and he persuaded the "Y" manager to allow him to instruct a class in return for 80% of the net proceeds. In his first session, he had run out of material; improvising, he ... Read Moresuggested that students speak about "something that made them angry", and discovered that the technique made speakers unafraid to address a public audience."

#44 | Posted by Bani at 2009-09-17 04:17 PM | Reply | Flag:

Do you play Evony Kanrei?

It's addicting.

#45 | Posted by Manypaths at 2009-09-17 04:23 PM | Reply | Flag:

lol

www.facebook.com

#42 | Posted by Bani

Who in the hell would sign up for that? Is that Chair? Isn't he in CT?

#46 | Posted by Manypaths at 2009-09-17 04:25 PM | Reply | Flag:

I joined at first, but it is a dead group and recently quit it.

#43 | Posted by kanrei

6 minutes after i posted the link, too...lol

i look like Sting ~ with less hair, Kanrei:>)

#47 | Posted by Bani at 2009-09-17 04:30 PM | Reply | Flag:

#29

I LOVE putting a face to a name Kan...especially because we've talked for so many years.

And Many....I love that pic! I still have the pic you sent me a couple of years ago too!

#48 | Posted by Lisa at 2009-09-17 04:56 PM | Reply | Flag:

Yup, exactly.

#49 | Posted by kanrei at 2009-09-17 04:56 PM | Reply | Flag:

I am not ashamed of my photo, but why make it easy on people?

#50 | Posted by kanrei at 2009-09-17 04:57 PM | Reply | Flag:

I have pic of you already dork...I know what you look like! And you shouldn't be ashamed!!

#51 | Posted by Lisa at 2009-09-17 04:59 PM | Reply | Flag:

You haven't seen my FB photo. I'll give you a clue- my mom likes it.

#52 | Posted by kanrei at 2009-09-17 05:00 PM | Reply | Flag:

Awwww, no I haven't.

Add me so I can see it!! : )

#53 | Posted by Lisa at 2009-09-17 05:03 PM | Reply | Flag:

i look like paul hogen meets kal penn.
haha

#54 | Posted by klifferd at 2009-09-17 05:03 PM | Reply | Flag:

my mom thought i looked like sting...i don't.

#55 | Posted by Bani at 2009-09-17 05:04 PM | Reply | Flag:

I'm new to FB, so it will take me a while to figure out how to add someone.

#56 | Posted by kanrei at 2009-09-17 05:05 PM | Reply | Flag:

We'll be the judge Bani!! ; )

#57 | Posted by Lisa at 2009-09-17 05:05 PM | Reply | Flag:

There are a million people named Lisa =P I need more info

#58 | Posted by kanrei at 2009-09-17 05:06 PM | Reply | Flag:

Kan; email me your name there and I will add you.

My husband loves my FB pic. Says it reminds him of Grace Kelly....lol.

#59 | Posted by Lisa at 2009-09-17 05:07 PM | Reply | Flag:

Add me so I can see it!! : )

#53 | Posted by Lisa

he looks like a cross between King of Queens & Jason Alexander with a cherub smile

#60 | Posted by Bani at 2009-09-17 05:07 PM | Reply | Flag:

I think that's an insult.

#61 | Posted by kanrei at 2009-09-17 05:08 PM | Reply | Flag:

Kan...send me an email...dork!! Lol

I'll give you my new last name.

#62 | Posted by Lisa at 2009-09-17 05:08 PM | Reply | Flag:

Except the cherub smile part =D

#63 | Posted by kanrei at 2009-09-17 05:08 PM | Reply | Flag:

I'm new to FB, so it will take me a while to figure out how to add someone.

#56 | Posted by kanrei

#64 | Posted by Bani at 2009-09-17 05:08 PM | Reply | Flag:

I really did. I have accepted people, but have not added anyone.

#65 | Posted by kanrei at 2009-09-17 05:09 PM | Reply | Flag:

#54

Oh stop it Kliff!!

Lol

#66 | Posted by Lisa at 2009-09-17 05:09 PM | Reply | Flag:

I sent you my name Lisa

#67 | Posted by kanrei at 2009-09-17 05:10 PM | Reply | Flag:

a cross between King of Queens & Jason Alexander

Still hurts. I am tall and not fat damnit =(

#68 | Posted by kanrei at 2009-09-17 05:11 PM | Reply | Flag:

I haven't been to FB in forever...made the original page then forgot my password. I remembered it and now I'm liking it more than my myspace...I just need to figure out how to put a background to it.

#69 | Posted by Lisa at 2009-09-17 05:11 PM | Reply | Flag:

Cool Kan!!!

BRB

#70 | Posted by Lisa at 2009-09-17 05:12 PM | Reply | Flag:

Still hurts. I am tall and not fat damnit =(

#68 | Posted by kanrei

I should have said a thin version...sorry

#71 | Posted by Bani at 2009-09-17 05:15 PM | Reply | Flag:

"Oh stop it Kliff!! "

really..

lol
my fb photo looks like kal penn meets crocodile dundee

#72 | Posted by klifferd at 2009-09-17 05:16 PM | Reply | Flag:

They do have hot wives come to think of it...

#73 | Posted by kanrei at 2009-09-17 05:16 PM | Reply | Flag:

I LOVE that pic of you Kan!!!!!

#74 | Posted by Lisa at 2009-09-17 05:18 PM | Reply | Flag:

u took your link down so fast ~ i wasn't able to pre-cur one for u:>(

#75 | Posted by Bani at 2009-09-17 05:19 PM | Reply | Flag:

Kliff....send me an email and I will add you!

#76 | Posted by Lisa at 2009-09-17 05:19 PM | Reply | Flag:

You are a mom too =P

Thanks

#77 | Posted by kanrei at 2009-09-17 05:19 PM | Reply | Flag:

lisa i'll just add you.

#78 | Posted by klifferd at 2009-09-17 05:23 PM | Reply | Flag:

But I'm not YOUR mom so it's different!

I love that smile!!

#79 | Posted by Lisa at 2009-09-17 05:24 PM | Reply | Flag:

You don't know my last name kliff!! Lol

#80 | Posted by Lisa at 2009-09-17 05:25 PM | Reply | Flag:

This could start getting scary... we may have to start being more polite with personal information now in the mix.

#81 | Posted by kanrei at 2009-09-17 05:25 PM | Reply | Flag:

I can't unleash on Larry anymore for example since we are both on Lisa's friend list and now have access to each other.

#82 | Posted by kanrei at 2009-09-17 05:26 PM | Reply | Flag:

lisa don't you worry.

#83 | Posted by klifferd at 2009-09-17 05:28 PM | Reply | Flag:

LOL Kan

You should be nice anyway!!!

I have to contact all the people who wanted my FB now that I remembered the password so they can add me now.

The next day or two I'll have more pics up. I have to upload them.

#84 | Posted by Lisa at 2009-09-17 05:29 PM | Reply | Flag:

This could start getting scary... we may have to start being more polite with personal information now in the mix.

#81 | Posted by kanrei

lol

"Speak well of everyone at all times..."

Dale what's his name

#85 | Posted by Bani at 2009-09-17 05:29 PM | Reply | Flag:

Kliff...you're starting to worry me!!!

Please don't tell me you know my name!!

#86 | Posted by Lisa at 2009-09-17 05:30 PM | Reply | Flag:

But that isn't fun here. I know some people take things really personally here. We may need a Drudge Retort Convention to discuss how to handle civilians when the fighting gets personal now.

#87 | Posted by kanrei at 2009-09-17 05:31 PM | Reply | Flag:

lisa

when you add me i'll tell you how i found you.

it will all make sense and not be scary.

#88 | Posted by klifferd at 2009-09-17 05:32 PM | Reply | Flag:

I just have to call a truce will Larry is all.

#89 | Posted by kanrei at 2009-09-17 05:32 PM | Reply | Flag:

Lol ok Kan

#90 | Posted by Lisa at 2009-09-17 05:33 PM | Reply | Flag:

Stupid growing up....

#91 | Posted by kanrei at 2009-09-17 05:34 PM | Reply | Flag:

Ok...I'm going to trust you Kliff!

Did you send me a request?

And that's a good idea Kan!!!

#92 | Posted by Lisa at 2009-09-17 05:34 PM | Reply | Flag:

These are some of my facebook friends:>)

www.facebook.com

#93 | Posted by Bani at 2009-09-17 05:36 PM | Reply | Flag:

We have to make a pact never to put up our pictures, pages or personal info on here.

Agreed?

Now pinky swear!! :)

#94 | Posted by Lisa at 2009-09-17 05:43 PM | Reply | Flag:

Since Facebook is the topic, thought I would share a Facebook funny.

Awkward Moments on Facebook

"MOM?" lol

#95 | Posted by Manypaths at 2009-09-17 05:45 PM | Reply | Flag:

Now pinky swear!! :)

#94 | Posted by Lisa

until the next flame war at least!

#96 | Posted by Bani at 2009-09-17 05:45 PM | Reply | Flag:

I swear.

Also, friends lists are off limits for retaliation.

#97 | Posted by kanrei at 2009-09-17 05:46 PM | Reply | Flag:

Agreed, Kan.

#98 | Posted by Lisa at 2009-09-17 05:47 PM | Reply | Flag:

Seee, told ya it was scary =P

#99 | Posted by kanrei at 2009-09-17 05:48 PM | Reply | Flag:

My husband is gonna say "who the hell are all THESE people" when I show him my page.

LOL

#100 | Posted by Lisa at 2009-09-17 05:49 PM | Reply | Flag:

Naw, it'll be fine.

I'm only adding people I sincerely trust.

Otherwise I wouldn't add them.

#101 | Posted by Lisa at 2009-09-17 05:50 PM | Reply | Flag:

Where did Kliff go????

He said he was going to tell me how he found me.

Maybe by my email address??

#102 | Posted by Lisa at 2009-09-17 05:52 PM | Reply | Flag:

I must be off (Batman game calling) but I shall be back later =D

#103 | Posted by kanrei at 2009-09-17 05:54 PM | Reply | Flag:

#94

Not even then, Bani!

#104 | Posted by Lisa at 2009-09-17 05:54 PM | Reply | Flag:

sorry

i left work... back at my hotel now

#105 | Posted by klifferd at 2009-09-17 05:58 PM | Reply | Flag:

When I first joined ~ I was able to find my high school classmates therein. I clicked on one of my best friends for confirmation & he added me right away.

So I start getting his stuff about going to HS & getting a new hockey stick ~ all stuff we used to do ~ so i made fun of his Peggy Sue like aspirations on his wall & he laughed at them, too .

this went on for a week or so as I got used to the facebook initiation as I was scattered about here & there meeting old friends & some new ones...

Finally I got a text message from my High School Buddy to call him, but I wasn't able to.

Later I went on his wall & to tell him why it took me another day to get to him (his picture wasn't in it yet) when I notice this guy's birthday was different & then noticed other oddities.

At first I thought he was pulling a Zarthustha, but then it hit me!

It was his nephew playing along with my newness in Facebook.

So I called up his uncle & we had a good laugh over it:>)

#106 | Posted by Bani at 2009-09-17 06:00 PM | Reply | Flag:

LOL Bani!

I'm more used to my myspace than facebook.

It's going to take some time for me to get used to it as well!!

#107 | Posted by Lisa at 2009-09-17 06:03 PM | Reply | Flag:

so lisa was i right??

#108 | Posted by klifferd at 2009-09-17 06:05 PM | Reply | Flag:

I don't have my adult kids pages either.

Sometimes it's best for a mom not to see everything!

They're good kids but if I see them or some of their friends using foul language, I may be tempted to post some corrections!!
Lol

#109 | Posted by Lisa at 2009-09-17 06:06 PM | Reply | Flag:

I saw the add and confirmed it Kliff, and yes...that's me.

Sorry you saw my pic now??

LOL

#110 | Posted by Lisa at 2009-09-17 06:08 PM | Reply | Flag:

Now tell me how you knew.

But NOT here!

#111 | Posted by Lisa at 2009-09-17 06:09 PM | Reply | Flag:

i already sent you a msg on facebook... to let you know how.

#112 | Posted by klifferd at 2009-09-17 06:12 PM | Reply | Flag:

Ok...brb

#113 | Posted by Lisa at 2009-09-17 06:14 PM | Reply | Flag:

crocodile browndiee

#114 | Posted by klifferd at 2009-09-17 06:20 PM | Reply | Flag:

Lol...that's what I thought!

Gotta go make dinner. Thanks for the fun Kliff!

#115 | Posted by Lisa at 2009-09-17 06:23 PM | Reply | Flag:

Lol but I like your pic!!

Don't change it!!

#116 | Posted by Lisa at 2009-09-17 06:24 PM | Reply | Flag:

i'll have to eventually change it... but when i get an equally as sweet one.

#117 | Posted by klifferd at 2009-09-17 06:27 PM | Reply | Flag:

No, Lisa, I don't go to class reunions. I went to an all-boys military high school so I don't care if I never see those guys again. Like, whatever. We did not have a real social life there.

#118 | Posted by grumpy_too at 2009-09-18 12:42 AM | Reply | Flag:

Jobs, Facebook, and the Clueless Generation

"I recently heard of a twenty-something who was fired from her job. One of the reasons: She posted "My job sucks" and...

bx.businessweek.com

from one of Rcade's money making ad links above & just below Grumpy's last post before I posted this:>)

at least u won't get fired from ur job if ur posting here ~ right?

(unless ur a paid shill & fail to deliver the gooods...he, he)

#119 | Posted by Bani at 2009-09-18 09:04 AM | Reply | Flag: