Facebook Usage Hits 16 Billion Minutes a Day 107
1sockchuck writes "Facebook's 400 million users spend more than 16 billion minutes on the site every day, and view 1 million photos every second. That's prompted massive growth in the social network's infrastructure, which now encompasses more than 60,000 servers. Facebook's Tom Cook discussed how the company's operations team manages that growth in a presentation last week at the O"Reilly Velocity conference (video). The next day at Structure 2010, Facebook Vice President of Operations Jonathan Heiliger said server and chip makers have 'come a long way' in supporting cloud platforms since he bashed them last year."
What a waste... (Score:4, Funny)
Re:No we don't. (Score:4, Funny)
I just run a bot which watches all pictures on facebook to screw up their statistics.
And then I laugh: "ha-ha! Where is your statistical interpretation now! Ha!Ha!"
Re:wow... (Score:5, Funny)
Some of us are working on a legacy to pass along, you know. When you great-great-grandchildren look at their mother and ask "mom, was great-great-granddad more like Mike 'The Situation' or D.J. Pauly D?" will she have an answer? Or will she have to look down at her feet in shame and whisper "I don't know."?
lol (Score:4, Funny)
I spent 16 billion minutes with your mom. ::does the math:: wait...
Obligatory (Score:1, Funny)
Imagine a Beowulf cluster of these.
Re:What a waste... (Score:5, Funny)
and if you ever find something that is important, do let us know.
Re:No we don't. (Score:3, Funny)
Re:wow... (Score:2, Funny)
A Lot of wasted time...
Thank you for usefully spending the time to post this comment to a slashdot discussion, I'm sure your life has been enriched immeasurably, as mine was by sitting here reading it!
Re:facebook no more (Score:2, Funny)
"I Swear if you send me another Farmville Invitation I will slaughter your Cows"
http://tinyurl.com/252stgq
Re:Active minutes or browser minutes? (Score:3, Funny)
No, I'm an outlier. I don't have a facebook account, and have no interest whatsoever in the damned thing. :-P
Re:What a waste... (Score:5, Funny)
This is quickly turning into a time-wasting recursion loop. We're now doing math *on Slashdot* on the amount of time people spending wasting time on Facebook.
The only thing missing here is for this to be on idle.slashdot.org, not tech.slashdot.org. :P
Economic impact (Score:5, Funny)
I wonder how many of these minutes are spent at work. Consider that 16 billion minutes a day, at US$10 per hour, is just shy of $1 Trillion a year. Has anyone else noticed the correlation between the rise Facebook and the global economic meltdown?
Re:What a waste... (Score:4, Funny)
The only thing missing here is for this to be on idle.slashdot.org, not tech.slashdot.org. :P
No, idle will run a story about the amount of time that people waste on Slashdot.
Re:wow... (Score:3, Funny)
Yes, if anything, they will be average-average-insignificant-children...