While doing some digging around on Facebook I managed to crunch some numbers and I was quite surprised by some of the information I was able to uncover. I utilized the adervising section of Facebook to get a hold of the amount of users and millennials in the U.S and abroad. I found that around the world there are approximately 74, 057, 840 millennials who use Facebooks. Out of the approximate 120 million total users that accounts for 61.7% of the total Facebook community. This stat was slightly surprising to me. I initially was anticipating the number of millennials on Facebook to be much closer to ninety or ninety-fice million. If this were true then millennials would constitute approximately seventy-five to eighty percent of all Facebook users.
Another stat that took me by surprise while I was crunching the numbers was how many millennials from abroad are from abroad. I figured that there would be a rather significant amount of users from outside the United States, but the fact that 41% of millennials on Facebook (not including the United States) were from other countries. Despite how the U.S apparently makes up about one-third of the total millennial population on Facebook, I was truely expecting the number of U.S members to dwarf the numbers of members from abroad by a much greater amount.
One final point of interest was how many Facebook members from abroad are members of political groups in support of Barack Obama. As I was scrolling through the group titled "Barack Obama (One Million Strong for Barack)" I decided to take a look at their list of members. I only looked through the first fifteen pages of their list and found members from twenty different countries that included: Japan, Sri Lanka, Poland, the Philippines, Morocco, South Africa, the Democratic Republic of Congo and Singapore among many others. This really caught my attention because I found it intriguing to see how many Facebook members from abroad are taking a serious interest in American politics and how many are organizing with millennials within the U.S in support of a particular candidate.
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I find that to be very interesting that people from all over the world like Japan are looking on facebook and reading about Obama. Facebook can really bring people together and you can learn about anything, anywhere. It is easy access to politics that some people would never read about.
It all ties in rather nicely with the Idea that Obama can restore the American image on the international stage. He has managed to, before actually doing anything as President, be the best President of the Unites Sates that the world has ever seen, or in a not so exaggerated way pretty dam good at his future job. It will then become a case of the chicken or the egg. Did people in other countries decide that Barcak Obama would be a great president so no matter what he does they will love him, or did he do something good for the world that actually helps a lot of people? It likely that he will do something, but I also think that his image will help the extent to which people revel in how beneficial it was.
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