# Facebook reached the 2 billion milestone.

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/facebook-reached-the-2-billion-milestone/790082>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [June 28, 2017, 7:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/facebook-reached-the-2-billion-milestone/790082 "2017-06-28T19:54:38Z")\
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**Author:** ![Velocity](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/velocity/32/18006_2.png) [@Velocity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Velocity)\
**Post date:** [June 28, 2017, 7:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/facebook-reached-the-2-billion-milestone/790082/1 "2017-06-28T19:54:38Z")

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Or so I was told when I logged into FB last night. Granted, some of those have to be multiple accounts or non-people entities, but still nearly 1/3 of the world populace.  
But anyone else think Facebook will have gone the way of Xanga by 2030?

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**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\
**Post date:** [June 28, 2017, 8:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/facebook-reached-the-2-billion-milestone/790082/2 "2017-06-28T20:02:52Z")

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A year or two ago, I read Mark Zuckerberg’s comment on some acquisition he had just made or was contemplating. He said something like, “These things really aren’t interesting to us until they have at least a billion users.” I thought that was hilarious.