Very thoughtful post about the value of a Facebook profile, which goes beyond the surface statistical analysis. Tony does not reveal his last name, but I am inclined to feel a kinship with any guy who puts a nice promotional blurb about adopting a retired racing greyhound on the top of his blog.

clipped from 16364.blogspot.com s thinking that the value should be variable based on the influence that a user has. The FB “influence factor” would be based on the number of friends I have, the number of apps I subscribe to, my groups, number of interactions, etc. My “influence factor” is a ranking of how involved I am in FB and hence a reflection of how FB “sticky” I am. The more sticky the better because the more time I spend in FB means that there are more opportunities to show me ads. Also a large number of friends means that my profile home page is prime real estate for product placement messages that my friends will view when they check up on me.