{"id":12543,"date":"2010-09-26T19:56:54","date_gmt":"2010-09-27T00:56:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/?p=12543"},"modified":"2010-09-26T19:56:54","modified_gmt":"2010-09-27T00:56:54","slug":"nice-stats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/2010\/09\/26\/nice-stats\/","title":{"rendered":"Nice stats"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The only thing more devastating to teenager than limiting access to Facebook might just be the loss of their cell phone. It&#8217;s an exaggeration, but only slightly. In just a few years, one application has gone from innovative novelty to near necessity. But not just for teenagers.<\/p>\n<p>Nearly all of my friend requests on Facebook in the last six months came from people who read <em>The Last Track.<\/em> That&#8217;s something I never expected. <\/p>\n<p>Then again, I also never expected Facebook and social networking to get so big. At present more than 500 million people have Facebook accounts. Some days more people access Facebook than Yahoo or Google. Let me repeat that. A single destination draws more traffic than the biggest search engines that help people sift through billions of active web sites. That&#8217;s beyond impressive. And staggering.<\/p>\n<p>It also makes me wonder what&#8217;s next for the social networking juggernaut. Maybe just more of the same. <\/p>\n<p>Or maybe something even bigger.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The only thing more devastating to teenager than limiting access to Facebook might just be the loss of their cell phone. It&#8217;s an exaggeration, but only slightly. In just a few years, one application has gone from innovative novelty to near necessity. But not just for teenagers. Nearly all of my friend requests on Facebook [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12543","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-introspection"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12543","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12543"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12543\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12544,"href":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12543\/revisions\/12544"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}