In 2016, Facebook will be bigger than China

What if one day Facebook decided to become a virtual nation, with its own rules, its own currency and a territory online? As would become a country larger than China in a few years. According to the computer consultant Pingdom, between 2016 and 2018, the social network created by Mark Zuckberg exceed the Asian giant, the most populous in the world with 1.3 billion inhabitants. Taking an annual growth of 10 percent for Facebook, the country's virtual social network in China will reach just over three years, although if you use a more cautious rate of 6%, it will happen in 2018. To take into account, only in 2012, the platform got a 18% increase from its base andreached the milestone of one billion users. That figure means that half of Internet users (2.4 billion) are on Facebook. The growth of the site is linked to increased penetration of broadband fixed and mobile in Third World countries. So, even though 61 percent of users say they are tired of Facebook, the future projection remains promising.