When Facebook signed up its 100 millionth member last August, its employees spread out in two parks in Palo Alto, Calif., for a huge barbecue. Sometime this coming week, this five-year-old start-up, born in a dorm room at Harvard, expects to register its 200 millionth user. That staggering growth rate — doubling in size in just eight months — suggests Facebook is rapidly becoming the Web’s dominant social ecosystem and an essential personal and business-networking tool in much of the wired world.
The full story at NY Times:
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/29/technology/internet/29face.html?_r=1&ref=technology
