Facebook Adds 50 Million Users in 3 Months

Mark Zuckerburg, the founder of Facebook, has announced that it has gone from 200 million users to 250 million in just over 3 months!

Yes - that's over 50 million users in the past 3 months - just in case you didn't catch that.

And as Mashable reported back in April, Facebook grew from 100 million to 200 million users in just 8 months (from August 2008 - April of 2009)

The reach, popularity, and social relevance - not to mention to the growth - is nothing short of massive. It does seem that the king of the web, or at least social networks, does change hands every 2 or 3 years, but for now and into the immediate future anyway, Facebook is on a rapid rise.

Here's what Mark Zuckerburg had to say:

"As of today, 250 million people are using Facebook to stay updated on what's happening around them and share with the people in their lives. The rapid pace of our growth is humbling and exciting for us, and it affirms that people everywhere are realizing the power of staying connected to everything they care about on Facebook.

From the beginning, Facebook hasn't been about building a website. Facebook is about all of the people using it and all of the things that are important to you. The 250 million of you on Facebook today are what gives Facebook life and makes the site meaningful to everyone using it, so we thank you."

What I'm looking forward to is when Facebook has a public offering for stock! There will be a feeding frenzy for that stock quite possibly unlike anything we've ever seen.