I don't, my parents, grandparents, aunts and uncles don't, my best friend doesn't, several of my favorite past and present colleagues don't. There are times I really wonder where Facebook's massive userbase comes from, and how it can ever possibly occur to anyone, anywhere, under any circumstances, to make Facebook the sole login system for their web startup that otherwise has little or nothing to do with Facebook.
Given that there are ~ 300M americans and facebook has ~850M users, my guess is that most of their userbase is overseas (and oftentimes falling prey to the whole "americans use it, so I should also be using it" mentality)
> (and oftentimes falling prey to the whole "americans use it, so I should also be using it" mentality)
That's a pretty low option of foreigners; in practice I think they take which bits of American culture they like, adapt it if necessary and ignore the rest. I would guess most of FB's non-USA users use it for the same reason USA-users do; its good at what it does, and all their friends use it.
I suspect there are a lot of throw-away lurker accounts created merely to sign into something that needed a Facebook sign-in (typically a Google result). I've created a few of those myself. I do not have a "real" Facebook account, and I have no plans to create one.
Plus lots of Facebook games encourage you to spam your friends daily for rewards. I know there are people who want the rewards but don't want to spam their friends: I'd love to know how many Facebook accounts are created simply as dummy accounts to send spam to.
For a long time Facebook wasn't available over seas. Facebook started with only US colleges, then high schools. It only opened up to people outside the US about 3 years ago I think so I would assume a large percentage of its user base is american.
This is as insightful a theory as saying Facebook launched 7 years ago and now it has 850 million users, so on its first year at Harvard it must have gained 121.4 million users.
