Facebook is coming for you China

Facebook announced this week that it added its 200 millionth user on April 8, 2009. The US had more Facebook users than any other country. However, the largest concentration of users was in the Eastern US and Western Europe.

Two hundred million users.

Let me try to quickly put that into perspective: The Facebook population is now 24 times larger than the population of New York City, equivalent in size to 1,904 completely-sold out shows at the gigantic Wembley Stadium, and would be the fifth largest country in the world if it were its own country. Or as I like to think of it, 199,999,700 more people that are out there waiting to befriend me.

The numbers are impressive to say the least. What's even more incredible is that the site took less than five years to reach this landmark, and its current growth rate is even more outlandish – 100 million new users in only 8 months...

But that's nothing if you look at China. Home to more than 1.2 billion (1,200,000,000) people. With a global population of 6 billion, one out of every five people on the planet. Any guesses on when Facebook will overtake the Orient?