If Facebook were a country...

On the Facebook blog today, Mark Zuckerberg writes:

If Facebook were a country, it would be the eighth most populated in the world, just ahead of Japan, Russia and Nigeria.

Facebook now has over 150 million users from every continent, including Antarctica. Almost half of those 150 million users log on every day. Wow. It seemed like more and more people I know have started Facebooking (and yes, I'm one of those who takes pride in having a profile long before it was popular, back in the days of academics only). Still, it's incredible to think of Facebook in terms of being larger than most countries. Read more on the Facebook blog.