Facebook just hit yet another milestone, passing 50mm active users. These 50mm users generate 34 Billion Page Views a month, making it the 4th largest website in the world.

As incredible as it seems, in my conversations with many people outside of the “industry”, I find most people over 30 still are generally clueless as to what Facebook is and why they should care. I’d say I manage to persuade about 95% of these Facebook Virgin’s to take the plunge and have their first Friending experience. Its not hard to imagine that the other 100,000 or so Facebook developers are having similar conversations around the world.

One of the big bets I’ve made in my company (when Facebook had about 25mm users), is that this growth rate was going to continue despite the law of large numbers and it is sure exciting to see it unfold in such a spectacular fashion.

Speaking of which, our first Facebook Game, “MyGladiator” is coming along nicely. If you’d like to join our private beta, please friend me and I’ll let you in.

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