What lovely abuse of statistics! By showing them indexed to the same scale, it makes it impossible to draw the conclusion they try and draw. You need to know the *absolute* increase in facebook usage and the *absolute* increase or decline in total internet usage. If their numbers are correct, then facebook is growing at the expense of the rest of the internet, but without the absolute numbers you can't tell if it's doing so to a significant extent.
You really need to look at the growth in total internet usage pre- and post-facebook as well. I expect the existence of facebook has caused a noticeable increase in total internet usage (compared to pre-existing trend). It is creating new internet minutes, not stealing them from other sites. You should probably also look at Facebook's direct competitors. For example, usage of MySpace has declined enormously - a lot of Facebook's growth may have come from that decline. The article suggests Facebook is hurting the rest of the internet, but if it's really only hurting other social networking sites, then there is nothing to worry about. The most important data for us to look at is here: http://stats.wikimedia.org/EN/TablesPageViewsMonthlyAllProjects.htm. While that does show a year-on-year decline, that actually because of a spike a year ago (I don't know why). If you smooth things out a bit, we are seeing growth (albeit fairly low growth). What the rest of the internet is doing isn't really important. On 25 June 2011 15:03, Fred Bauder <fredb...@fairpoint.net> wrote: > The web itself is passé > > http://www.businessinsider.com/chart-of-the-day-facebook-vs-the-rest-of-the-web-2011-6 > > Actually, we missed the boat, but that ship sailed long ago. > > Fred > > > _______________________________________________ > foundation-l mailing list > foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l > _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
