Comments on: Facebook goes hyper-viral with 'People You May Know'

The social network has about 67 million members. But with this new feature, the number of quality connections per member will skyrocket, extending the reach of Facebook's social graph.

[lmasanti]

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"Facebook has about 67,000 million members."

Last time I checked, world population was like "7,000 millions"... So has Facebooks like 10 times that number?
Wow!

[25percentfree]

67,000 million members = 67,000,000,000 = 67 billion. Ahem.

[megustansalchichas]

67 billion members, did they baptize the dead and let them join facebook?

[amar_mabbu]

planet earth might have long crashed if human population was 67 billion!

[HendrixGroove]

67 Billion people on Facebook, now thats viral.

[Jon Skillings]

Editors' note: The typo has been corrected. Thanks all for pointing it out.

[hunter_jc]

Just sent out 100 friends request. Crossing my fingers.

[Webconomist]

I think LinkedIn did this a while ago...it's a "nice" feature, but how does it translate to dollars? Hoping for more impressions and clicks? yawn. It's just another annoying feature. Do people really, truly want to connect so desperately to more people outside their "acceptable ring"? I'm not so sure. The FunWall just became a way to send videos and images like the early days of email. It grew tiring, and will taper off. Adding this is not what social media really is. it just adds to the "Personal Web" from the public Web, but not in a high value way.

[PCsRfun]

It would be interesting to do the math and figure out how long it would take before every person on facebook was connected to every other person. (assuming that everyone accepts each new contact)

[Darxider]

I'm an independent developer on Facebook platform. I write this feature as a "Facebook application" last year, published under the name "Friendmates":

http://www.facebook.com/apps/application.php?id=5962631843

Facebook stole the idea without giving me any credit. Dan says "Facebook is making some smart moves" but I already had this developed for Facebook last year. They simply took it.

[A_N_Onymous]

For a satirical take on this topic and other Facebook news, take a look at this new blog, Facebookers Anonymous

[ChrisLang]

It sounds like social marketing and networking is about to hit a tipping point. In other words so overly marketed and hyped that it becomes annoying.