Facebook Mania: 1 Million Under Age Kids in UK Access Facebook Everyday

LONDON – A recent study conducted by Mintel, a London-based market research firm, concluded that about one million British under-teen children, aged between 7 and 12, use Facebook - a social networking platform with more than 800 million users worldwide - on a daily basis.

Under-age Kids Using Facebook 

Ina Mitskavets, a researcher at Mitel, said, “Today's children are well versed in all aspects of the internet, with almost a million children aged seven to twelve using Facebook - highlighting just how popular the site has become.”

The study further suggests that 50 per cent the British children aged between 7 and 12 access social networking websites, out of which, 49 percent or around 970,000 access Facebook every single day. The study shows that more than half of the children accessed Facebook from their desktops while 10 per cent of children use mobile devices to use Facbook.

Although Facebook , restricts children under the age of 13 to join the social networking site but, according to another survey, parents of the children help their underage children to open accounts on Facebook.

The study also revealed that the rest of the 50% children accessing social networking platforms do it irregularly while only 5 percent of the children don't use it at all.

Pressure from their friends is a major reason which motivates children to create accounts on social networking platforms, the study concluded in the end.

Google+ Reaches 50-million-user Milestone in 88 Days -- Beats Facebook, MySpace, Twitter and LinkedIn

Google Plus (Google+) achieved 50-million-user mark in record time, threatening the Facebook, the dominant in the social networking world presently. 

Google+ Beats Facebook, MySpace, Twitter and LinkedIn in Getting 50-million-user Milestone

Google+ took only 88 days to achieve this milestone, which is extraordinarily amazing if we compare it with other social networks performance. For example; Facebook took 1325 days and Twitter took 1096 days to get the same number of users, while MySpace improved it with 50 days by getting the target in 1046 days. 

Only in last week Google+ opened its doors for everyone, after a 3-month "invite only" period, enticing internet users to be part of all-new dynamic social network.  

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Social networking giant set to introduce 'Facebook Marketing Solutions' for small businesses

Small businesses are ready to get big support from social networking giant. Facebook has reportedly working on a plan, dubbed as Facebook Marketing Solutions, to provide small businesses $10 million in free advertising.

Social network giant set to introduce 'Facebook Marketing Solutions'

In early 2012, under this plan, Facebook will give at least $50 of free advertising on Facebook to each small business qualified. The small businesses to be benefited by this program will be chosen by the National Federation of Independent Business and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce over the next few months.

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Reality of Facebook 'Price Grid' Membership -- Charges Per Month: Gold for $9.99, Silver for $6.99, Bronze for $3.99

The cyber world has been getting overpopulated with the Facebook-related hoaxes and rumours since the social networking giant has announced the significant changes to its Open Graph platform, in last week's F8 conference in San Francisco, allowing more sharing than ever before.  

Facebook 'Price Grid' Membership: Gold for $9.99/m, Silver for $6.99/m, Bronze for $3.99/m

Reality of a hoax Facebook message just shared here earlier today while a lot of Facebookers were warned over the weekend against a new scam claiming the Facebook may charge a $9.99 “gold membership" unless users forward a message before midnight.

The message claims that Facebook just released a “price grid" for membership, including $9.99 a month for Gold Member services, $6.99 for Silver Member services, and $3.99 for Bronze Member services. The message further claims that Facebook will continue to be free “IF YOU COPY AND PASTE THIS MESSAGE BEFORE MIDNIGHT TONIGHT"

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Facebook Losing its Supremacy in Social Networking World as Facebook Users Drops Significantly in U.S. and Canada

Facebook Losing its Supremacy in Social Networking World

Facebook – definitely the king of social networks for almost half of last decade; but is it going to lose its supremacy in the field of social networking sites..??

Recent reports on Monday, published on mashable.com, suggest that Facebook is losing its users significantly in Canada and United States. According to data collected; Facebook lost 1.5 million users in Canada and about 6 million in U.S. during the last month.

Although Facebook is growing in terms of its overall number of users but the growth rate clearly tending to negative side; as Facebook gained 13.9 million users in April, and 11.8 million users in May – compared to a typical month in 2010 where the company gained 20 million users per month on average.

The reports on mashable.com further mentioned that if the present negative trend continues for next two months it would be an important sign for Facebook’s future.

Facebook continues to rule the social networking area with its mammoth number of active users which touch 687 million in the start of June 2011. Despite the slowed growth in North America, Facebook is getting more new users from countries that are late in adopting Facebook, such as India, Brazil, and Mexico.

Social Networking Site Facebook Touches 700 Million Users

Facebook Enjoying Growth in Brazil

According to SocialBakers, which is run by a Facebook marketing firm Candytech Ltd. of the Czech Republic, Facebook is enjoying an amazing growth in Brazil, Indonesia, the Philippines, Mexico and Argentina and the figure of current active users have crossed whopping 700 million.

According to data collected by SocialBakers, a site that specializes in statistics on the social networking giants, the Facebbok users in Brazil increase by 19 million showing 11% growth. This is a remarkable growth in the wake of the fact that there’s a strong presence of Google-owned social network Orkut in Brazil.

In terms of facebook users, United States is still on the top with 149.4 million users even after experiencing a 4% loss of users in the last month.