It Was a Facebook Christmas; Site Hits #1 in US For First Time
Christmas is a holiday that brings people together, so perhaps it should be no surprise that Facebook has become a part of millions of peoples' Christmas experiences. For the first time in its history, Facebook was the number one most visited website in the United States on both Christmas Eve and Christmas Day this year, according to traffic analyst firm Hitwise today.
That's worth noting. HitWise reported last year that Facebook was number two behind Google on Christmas. People say that Facebook vs. Google will be the Web's biggest battle in coming years - but it looks like Facebook has already won the battle for Christmas.
Throughout 2009, Google and Yahoo! Mail were both bigger than Facebook, Hitwise says. Facebook was the most popular search query of the last year across all search engine use by U.S. users, however. It's a social network's world these days.
One Christmas gift Facebook users may not have expected: December's major shift away from Facebook's initial nature as a privacy-centric social network. Apparently that didn't slow people down from visiting the site on the holidays.
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the number one visited site on christmas and the third suckiest website behind google, yahoo.. bacon bitches.
Facebook is moving ahead !!
woww .... great goin face bookerssss
I think Facebook might be bigger than Google in terms of traffic from next year but they will no where near Google's revenue amounts. It will take some time for Facebook to realise Google's revenues unless they enter Google's niche.
I'm a little surprised. My network has been very, very quiet this year (I wasn't on FB last year). I figured that Facebook activity must slow over the holidays since people aren't at work so much and have a life.
Interesting! I was on fb as well wishing people on my friend list
Very interesting topic will bookmark your site to check if you write more about in the future.
Well, remember when everyone was getting a mySpace account to meet up with long lost friends and relatives?
Then came the competition that worked.
I personally think things are going to go a different way in about five years. I'll make a post at my personal blog on what I think will be the future of social networking.
The blog: http://stuffnotes.blogspot.com/
Facebook is continuing to prove itself as a force to be reckoned with. Facebook is a fun and safe way for people to express themselves and connect with others.
Very interesting. I guess most people realize it's because of all the "Merry Christmas" status updates.
Can we take that to mean Facebook has more users than people who visit Google on an average day?
Facebook is a good social site and give to all person his religious free atmosphere.
Is kinda obvious that Facebook user's content
will overpast google database.
what about myspace vs facebook ?
i hate facebook :@
but, nice post man :D
This is totally understandable because Facebook is reconnecting friends and relatives all around the globe in a world wide phenomenon of socialising to a degree that people could never have previously imagined. Even kids who may only briefly know each other are now able to connect on a very personal level thanks to facebook. Plus everyone has a directly personal insight into each others personal lives thanks to the public presentation of photographs that two decades ago would have been confined to a traditional photo album only to be brought out to embarrass new inlaws or at special ocasions to reminisce over a glass of wine.
It is Good new For Face book.they achieve their goal in USA.USA is a huge market of money. i hope face book improve our site.i give Con grate to all face book users and business peoples.
Should have known all along. Business' like facebook can have a massive impact on future events political and environmental. We should all think carefully when falling into confort zones using this sort of technology.
nice post, intersting post about facebook