The Flat Planet and a Phone !

Today at 9:14pm Israel time the Israel network on Facebook reached 100,000 members (thank you Dovid for the screenshot). There were only 18,000 in August and 70,000 10 days ago. That is tremendous growth if you consider that Israel is mainly a Hebrew speaking country.

What I find more interesting is that about half are above the age of 24, which means that Facebook is moving away from the college age origins and becoming more of a serious networking platform for business.

A number of my friends blogged about this outside of Israel

Jeff Pulver (a virtual Israeli)

Alec Saunders

Shel Israel

UPDATES:

Nov 4th - 130,000 (25% a week!)

Nov 10th - 150,000 (50% in 2 weeks)

Nov 20th - 187,000 (on track to hit 200,000 this week, double in one month)

Nov 23rd - 200,000 (double in less than a month!)

Dec 24th  - 300,000 (growth is slowing down…)