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Facebook fever grips South Africa
Posted: 06/14/2007

Facebook fever grips SA
14/06/2007 08:42  - (SA)

Cape Town - South Africans have embraced the internet social networking revolution, with over 50 000 new users signing on to the local Facebook network.

The Facebook "South Africa" network currently has over 87 000 members - up from 35 000 in May.

Facebook.com is "a social utility that connects people with friends and others who work, study and live around them". Launched in 2004 as a website for Harvard college students, it currently boasts over 25 million members worldwide.

When a user registers on the site, they are given a blank profile page which they can update with their personal information and are encouraged to join a network. Members can then search the site for their friends and link up to each other, re-creating their social circle on the internet.

The name of the site is taken from the paper facebooks that US colleges give to incoming students showing members of the campus community.

While there's little demographical information on South African's using Facebook, members are encouraged to list basic personal information and their favourite things.

Thirty-nine percent of members of the South African Facebook network are listed as single, while 28% are listed as "in a relationship". Males comprise 45% of the network, females 40% and 15% prefer not to say.

http://www.news24.com/News24/Technology/News/0,,2-13-1443_2129757,00.html



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