New Facebook Group: Beginners Guide to Mastering Web Basics

August 22, 2007 by Sherman Hu
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My new playground? Facebook.

Here are some stats that are astounding (Source: Shel Israel)

* Over 150,000 registrants daily. That’s 1 million a week since January.

* 35 million users today. Of course that number will be off a million one week from today.

* Half user are outside college. That number was zero in Sept. 2006.

* 0ver 40 billion page views in May 2007

* Average visitor stays 20 minutes

* Most growth is among people over age 25.

* 47,000 Facebook groups.

* #1 photo sharing app on the web. 2.7 billion photos on site.

* More than 2000 applications. The Top 10 are: Top Friends, Video, Graffiti, MyQuestions, iLike, FreeGifts, X Me, Superpoke!, Fortune Cookie & Horoscopes. The smallest of these has over 4.5 million users.

I’ve been connecting with friends, colleagues, and new acquaintances at Facebook, and it’s been enjoyable.

It’s also a fantastic platform to discover interest groups (think: brainstorm ideas).

Speaking of groups, I’ve created an open group called: "Beginners Guide to Mastering Web Basics" - a place where
technophobes can hang out.

Here’s the URL: http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=5668471204

I’ll be providing some video tutorials targeted for beginners, and hopefully even technophobes can learn a thing or two

[Jeff Foxworthy voice] If you are one, that’s great!

If you’re savvy, you’re who I need to speak to. You see, you may have a host of friends or family that who’re constantly hounding you about how to do this, how to do that – sound familiar?

It’s my hope that we can help them out in a non-intimidating, social community place like Facebook, where they can learn basics about the Web.

There are no opt-ins (except if they don’t have a Facebook account, and need to register for one to connect with us) so no need to fear a flood of emails to their inbox.

So whaddya think?

Here’s the URL to the group:
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=5668471204

See you there!

ps. I’m hoping that the savvy ones can offer little tidbits of how-to’s along the way too! Every little bit counts, and it’ll grow to be a huge vault of knowledge that will help a bunch of folks!