facebook recovers in the uk

Facebook's loss of 400.000 users in UK in January, down to 8.5 million, seems to have been just a minor blip in its upward surge. New figures indicate that the popular social networking site now has 9.9 million UK users according to Nielsen Online. Facebook now has twice as many UK users as MySpace

These latest figures come at a time when many people are beginning to ask whether they really want to be in a place where they can be found and poked by virtual strangers - and have embarrassing moments from their past plastered all over the Internet (see video in my last post).

While it is a testament to the networking site's success that it features in a TV sketch show it will be interesting to see what effects that exposure will have exactly now that Facebook is being lampooned as they place to hang out for those who really don't have any friends.

But whether the figures Facebook reports are anything in similarity to those we hear about SecondLife is an altogether different story. How many have set up an account, taken a wee peek and never returned?